Create lasting change with one of our 28 day CBT programs.
Stress is a normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset in some way. In small doses, it can be beneficial, propelling you towards better performance and greater achievement. However, if you’re constantly running in emergency mode, it can lead to serious physical and psychological symptoms including anxiety, depression, headaches and insomnia. You’re experiencing chronic stress.
When stress becomes chronic, your body doesn’t have time to catch up each day. Even if you pause for a few hours to give yourself a break from the onslaught, your body doesn’t have time to recover. Learning how to manage stress effectively allows us to switch off our stress reaction and give our body time to recover.
I’ve always thought of myself as coping well with stress but over the last year or so, it’s built up and up without me really noticing. Nothing big just a steady drip-drip of extra worries. I became very irritable and anxious about small things, and had a lot of headaches.
Louise
Our programs are based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). You’ll be assigned a personal therapist who will work with you throughout the program.
Our program allows you to explore underlying causes of stress and develop a range of strategies that you can use to manage stress effectively on a day-to-day basis.
Begin your 28 day change program today:
Book your Stress Management program now!
Once we receive your booking we’ll assign you a personal therapist right away and he or she will get in touch within 6 hours to arrange your initial consultation.
Cost: £249
What happens when we’re under stress?
When you find yourself in a stressful situation, your body quickly reacts by releasing the hormone adrenaline into the bloodstream. Adrenaline elevates your heart rate and blood pressure, tenses up your muscles and speeds up your breathing. In addition, your body mobilises as much energy as possible; it is preparing to cope with an immediate emergency.
Under mild pressure, the adrenaline and cortisol bursts brought on by stress can lead to a temporary increase in performance, followed by a healthy fatigue that we can eliminate by resting. But with unrelenting adrenaline and cortisol arousal, our performance increasingly falls short of what we expect. Things start to go dramatically downhill.
Problems often arise when our body reacts to psychological and social stress such as money worries or work pressure with this powerful stress reaction. This can lead to chronic stress that accumulates day by day, week by week, year by year. For most people, it’s the daily accumulation that does the most damage; the little stresses that add up to far more that the big jolts do.
Symptoms
Every individual experiencing stress is unique and responds in their own way, however, common psychological symptoms include:
Physical symptoms include:
