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Empathetic Support for Those Battling Stress
Do you feel like stress is robbing you of joy, health, and inner peace day after day? Have mounting anxieties, worries, and pressures left you drained, quick to anger, or withdrawn from people and activities you used to love?
We have helped hundreds of clients break free from burnout and exhaustion to reclaim the vibrant, fulfilled lives they deserve.
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Understanding the Mind-Body Impact of Stress
Stress is best understood as the body and brain's heightened state when facing perceived threats, pressures, or demands. While acute stress can be helpful in short bursts, recurrent or chronic stress keeps the nervous system perpetually flooded with inflammatory hormones and neurotransmitters.
Prolonged stress can alter brain structure and function in ways that:
Additionally, chronic muscle tension from a stressed-out state can manifest as body aches, headaches, poor circulation, sexual dysfunction, and digestive issues over time.
The good news? Counselling for stress management can identify and target the root causes of your physiological, emotional, and thought pattern issues.
Prolonged stress can alter brain structure and function in ways that:
- Disrupt hormones like cortisol
- Accelerate cellular aging and degrade telomeres
- Shrink essential structures for memory and rational thinking
- Stimulate limbic system reactions
- Disregard the restorative parasympathetic nervous system
Additionally, chronic muscle tension from a stressed-out state can manifest as body aches, headaches, poor circulation, sexual dysfunction, and digestive issues over time.
The good news? Counselling for stress management can identify and target the root causes of your physiological, emotional, and thought pattern issues.
Our Integrative Approach to Stress Management and Well-Being
Sustainable well-being needs to be rebuilt. This begins with nurturing self-compassion. A judgmental, perfectionistic attitude toward ourselves and our limitations often worsens distress. We must reframe stress not as a personal failure but as an inevitable aspect of life requiring active management.
Stress Management Techniques
We offer a full spectrum of effective counselling services for managing stress. If you yearn for greater peace, purpose and freedom from the worrying, frustration, cynicism, or hopelessness stealing your vitality, the time for change is now.
Our stress management sessions will teach you ways to manage stress, including:
Our stress management sessions will teach you ways to manage stress, including:
- Work and financial anxieties
- Adjustment issues
- Health concerns
- Addictive behaviours
- Sleep disorders
- Emotional regulation challenges
- Chronic muscle tension
- Panic attacks
- Caregiving stress
- Grief and loss
- And more
Gentle and Compassionate Approach
We create a warm, non-judgmental environment where vulnerability is welcomed, not feared. We know leaning into stressful memories can feel emotionally intense, so we move slowly, taking breaks as needed. Our role is to be your anchor who you can ground with or center to whenever needed.
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How Our Managing Stress Counselling Works
People don't usually know what to expect from stress management counselling. The first appointment begins with going through the client consent for counselling process. At the same time, we will take a client history to help us create a treatment plan to suit your needs and budget.
Step One: Contact Our Team
Contact us to schedule an appointment at a time that's convenient for you.
Step Two: The Appointment
Step Three: Counselling Begins
Now that we know what you hope to achieve from counselling, we can get started with sessions to help you reach that goal. We will work with you for as long or as short a time as needed.
Cost of Stress Management Counselling
The cost of counselling will vary according to your needs. As a guide, our fees range from $140-$220 per session dependent on the type of practitioner you choose to work with. We do offer sliding scale spots; however, please inquire regarding availability as these spots are limited.
Get Started With Stress Management Counselling Today
Don't wait to get your life back on track. Call our caring team today to make an appointment.
We look forward to seeing you at our Edmonton office soon.
We look forward to seeing you at our Edmonton office soon.
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