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Exam stress counselling
Specialist exam stress counselling - using hypnotherapy and CBT to overcome exam stress
Exam stress and anxiety explained
It’s completely normal to get exam nerves and everyone feels a normal degree of anxiety in life when faced with such challenges as an examination, a job interview, or a visit to the dentist.
However, when people feel anxious a lot of the time about many different situations it can be that anxiety is developing. This may lead to general anxiety disorder. Feelings of anxiety can be accompanied by other symptoms and issues such as:
● Confidence
● Concentration
● Eating
● Insomnia
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Stress in more detail
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 exams or job interviews can increase stress as well as other significant events including marital difficulties or bereavement.[LINK] Exam stress 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.
How does exam stress 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 such as exams and meet life’s challenges head on.
You’ll learn how to effectively manage your stress levels through a variety of exam 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.
“Understandably, sitting exams can create natural feelings of worry and being under pressure. However, there are plenty of simple but effective strategies that can quickly ease those stress levels; meaning that you are free to perform at your best.”
Richard Reid - CEO, Therapist & Coaching Psychologist
Our approach to treating exam stress
At Pinnacle we use a range of different therapies to treat stress and its underlying issue rather than its symptom.
We can teach you a range of coping strategies and techniques to improve your reduce your stress around exams and increase 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. Typically we use a combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and hypnotherapy for exam stress as well as psychotherapy and counselling techniques.
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Hypnotherapy for exam stress
Hypnotherapy can have a positive effect for those suffering from exam nerves. Through hypnosis we can teach you simple alternatives of how to express yourself so that you can strengthen relationships rather than damage them.
Changing your behaviour will change how you feel about yourself and how you interact with those closest to you, and the world in general. You’ll learn to express your feelings and needs positively and start to transform the most important relationships in your life.
CBT for exam stress
CBT is really helpful in treating exam stress. It’s 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.
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.
“Your sessions really helped me to become more focused and gain self-confidence in myself. When I entered the exam room I was completely calm and confident. I have never felt so calm, relaxed and focussed whilst taking a test.”
What can you expect from an exam stress counselling session?
Our exam stress therapy sessions are tailored to suit your needs. Each session usually lasts around 30 minutes to an hour; our courses usually consist of around 6 to 12 sessions.
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