Anxiety, Stress and Worry affects us all. We evolved to deal with stressful threats every now and again. We are not evolved to deal with the sheer uniquely and prevalence of stressful situations that pervade our homes, communities and workplaces. Worry about the past and keeping the pain of the past in the present is widespread. Anxiety about the future invariably involves perceptions about what we imagine may happen, but which the mind has difficulty differentiating between what is real and what our imagination has created. Fortunately there is a profusion of strategies for minimising stress and the effects of worry and anxiety, and my approaches involve building self-esteem up to previous levels, mindful mediation to enable you to take a step back from worrisome thoughts, rather than become subsumed by them, and helping you reorient locus of control so you are more in control of yourself, rather than delegating responsibility to external influences.
Bognor Regis, Bristol, London, West Sussex Stress we live in a world where stress seems to be inevitable . I work to help bring down the over whelming feelings that you can get with stress, breathing techniques, changes in routine and behaviours to find out the cause and how to manage this better
Counsellor/Therapist, PG Dip, MA, BACP Accred, EMDR Accred, 20 years experience as a Therapist
Stress can lead to feeling disempowered and a sense of losing one' s autonomy.
It will be important to understand what are the factors of stress and to work through what is happening for you.
Are you finding hard to set boundaries? are you caught up in a situation that you don't feel you can escape? We will explore this and together find a way forward that would bring you greater satisfaction and happiness.
For dealing with stress, first of all, I help my clients to manage their physical symptoms of stress and then they are able to take control of their bodies, we try to identify automatic negative thoughts and learn how to deal with them and challenge them. Stress is a reaction to unpredictability: more structure in your life will make your life more predictable and enjoyable.