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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for stress management
CBT stress management therapy - Specialist cognitive behavioural therapy for stress. Learn how to reduce and manage your stress through CBT resilience and coping techniques.
Stress management therapy explained
Stress can be described as a response to the demands and trials of everyday life that manifests as both thoughts and feelings. Smaller issues daily or a sudden change to your environment such as marital difficulties or bereavement can increase stress. Stress management counselling can be defined as the therapies implemented to help a person control their level of stress in the hope of increasing everyday well-being.
Your therapist will act as your ‘stress coach’, evaluating your stress level and advise what therapies would best suit you. Small amounts of stress are easy for people to cope with. However, whenever a situation or stimulus that causes stress is left for too long, it can overwhelm the person and cause them to feel physical and emotional distress. This is where we can help.
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How does stress management counselling help?
The ultimate goal of stress management is to help you achieve a balanced life. A life with time for work, relationships, relaxation, and fun. Your stress coach will guide you through your therapy, giving you the resilience to cope in stressful situations and meet life’s challenges head on.
You’ll learn how to effectively manage your stress levels through a variety of stress management therapy techniques. You’ll begin to recognise your personal stress triggers and how to avoid/deal with them in the future. By working collaboratively, we can show you how to break the cycle of stress that you might find yourself in, feel calmer and more able to cope with stressful situations.
There are a number of techniques and treatments we can use to provide you with a unique, personalised programme, ensuring you get the results you deserve. Therapy will help to clear your current stress issues and help you to handle any future problems with a lot more positivity.
Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for acute stress disorder
At Pinnacle we use a range of different therapies to treat stress and its underlying issue rather than its symptom.
With stress therapy, we teach you coping strategies and stress management techniques to improve your well-being. Everyone has different levels of stress and different feelings about stress, but we will find the solutions to suit you.
We know that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ and that each of our clients is different and has their own set of unique needs and circumstances. We use a combination of therapies for stress management, one of the primary treatments is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
What is CBT?
CBT is about looking at the relationship between your thoughts and feelings, and how they make you ‘default’ to certain behaviours. It’s seen as a different kind of ‘talking therapy’ that aims to solve a person’s current problems. In effect it helps you become your own therapist, where you use the skills you have learned.
By using CBT, we can help make you aware of what your own defaults are: sometimes they help us, sometimes they don’t – CBT helps you recognise those different responses for what they are.
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How does CBT help?
CBT teaches how we can break out of those default patterns to become more resilient in situations we may find uncomfortable or stressful by identifying where we respond negatively and then challenging those negative thoughts with alternative, positive ones.
CBT is a way to rewire the software of your brain, rehearsing troubling situations in your mind in order to create alternative ways of thinking when that situation arises again. In effect, you’re creating new mental circuitry by challenging and changing old responses that feel hardwired in, but aren’t.
With CBT, the therapist acknowledges that there may be behaviours that you cannot control through rational thought. Rather, these harmful coping strategies are as a result of prior conditioning from the environment and other internal or external stimuli.
By taking (what can feel like) insurmountable tasks and teaching you how to apply a pragmatic and objective viewpoint to these issues, CBT gradually changes the way you look at everyday challenges.
An stress management therapy case study
Alex was a senior level executive who was causing conflict with his colleagues as a result of how he was handling his stress levels. He had frequent angry outbursts and confrontations at work. This behaviour was also having a serious impact on the morale of the team that he was managing. By exploring the nature of some of these incidents, I was able to help Alex rationalise why some of the clashes had been occurring. Many of the clashes seemed to stem from feelings of stress.
I helped him increase his awareness of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours linked to this. This meant we were then able to look at practical strategies for addressing these. We included basic relaxation and time management skills, as well as alternative thinking patterns.
Over the course of the six sessions, Alex noticed a significant reduction in the number of disputes that he encountered at work. He also noticed an improvement in his levels of productivity at work and was also able to begin to improve his sleep patterns.
What can you expect from stress management counselling?
Our cognitive therapy for stress sessions are tailored to suit your needs. We work with individuals, couples, teens, and groups. Each session usually lasts around 30 minutes to an hour; our courses usually consist of around 6 to 12 sessions.
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