Regain your energy and enthusiasm for life.
Therapy for stress management in Orlando
Help for stress, burnout, and nervous system dysregulation.
Is stress starting to impact your health and well-being?
Unexplained headaches, acid reflux, auto-immune conditions flaring up– there are so many sneaky ways stress might be impacting your health.
Not to mention the mental load of planning, remembering, and tending to all of the things, which can lead to brain fog and fatigue. Simple tasks like unloading the dishwasher, returning a friend’s call, or remembering to pick up your grocery order can feel overwhelming.
The only thing you look forward to is that sliver of “me time” before bed, when you can zone out on your phone or binge watch TV.
You may be wondering why you’re feeling this pressure now. You’re used to functioning under high stress. The thing is, everyone has a tipping point. It might feel like everything’s been building up, and then it just crashed.
Perhaps you:
Had your first panic attack in a long time
Found yourself ugly crying to a friend
Got into an argument with your spouse for not helping out
Noticed your emotions spilling into your work
You’re so done living like this.
I can help you calmly navigate stress and refocus.
It’s possible to lower your stress level and still achieve your goals. I know hustle culture suggests otherwise, but you will accomplish more when you feel calm and rested. You don’t have to stay living on high alert or continue cruising on autopilot.
I’ll help you establish systems and strategies to manage your time and commitments, as well as healthy work-life boundaries. Then you can focus on what’s in front of you— hobbies, time with your spouse, projects for work, or the simple pleasure of doing nothing at all.
We’ll ensure you have effective methods for coping with stress, so you won’t have to bottle it up until you have another breakdown.
HOW IT WORKS
Therapy for stress management takes you from overwhelmed to balanced.
Increase awareness
You’re probably moving a mile a minute in your daily life, so one of the first things I’ll help you do in therapy is slow down to notice your thoughts and emotions in real time. This gives us important clues about the next steps you need to take to feel better.
Gain understanding
We’ll talk about your stressors and coping methods. Some ways you cope might not be that healthy, and that’s okay. I believe we do the best we can until we know better. I’ll help you develop compassion for yourself as you work toward your goals.
Make change
We’ll discuss your current habits (diet, sleep, exercise) and work on incremental changes so you can experience relief. Then we’ll do the deeper work of understanding patterns you fall into that make it hard to stick to health-promoting habits.
Therapy for stress management can help you:
Regain energy
Relieve physical ailments
Improve work-life balance
Reconnect with your interests and loved ones
Enjoy your life again
Specializing in therapy for stress management for:
Therapist burnout
Being a therapist is hard work. As high-achievers, helpers, and often empaths, we’re prone to burnout. I can hold space for you to be a whole human. I’ll help you process emotions and explore questions like, “how is stress impacting my work?” “am I burnt out?” and “is this career right for me?”
Highly sensitive people
If you’ve been called (or thought of yourself as) “too sensitive,” you could be a highly sensitive person. HPS’s are more attuned to their environment, and tend to think or feel deeply. I can help you understand sensitivity and setup your work & life to honor your strengths and capacity, so you don’t burnout.
ADHD
If you have ADHD, your brain processes all incoming info at the same level, which can be overwhelming. I know you have big ideas, and I can help you carry them out by breaking down complex tasks into bite-sized pieces. We can also work on managing time & emotions so life is less stressful.
Early career stress
Establishing yourself as an early career professional is challenging. You completed your training, but you’re not quite “there” yet. I can help you learn when & how to say “no,” and choose where to invest your energy, so you don’t over-extend, over-commit, and find yourself overwhelmed.
Common questions about therapy for stress management:
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Yes, everyone has stress and many people have high stress. That doesn’t mean living with high stress is healthy. Stress is a normal part of life so a lot of people don’t take it seriously.
High achievers especially are taught to ignore the negative effects of stress in order to reach their goals. But humans were not designed to withstand the non-stop stressors of the modern world.
Chronic, unmanaged stress is very damaging to your body, not to mention your mind & spirit.
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There are a couple reasons you might benefit from therapy for stress.
Maybe you don’t know how to effectively manage stress. Perhaps the methods you’re using (food, alcohol, TV) aren’t helping. Or you know what you need to do, but you don’t have the time or can’t seem to stay consistent with healthy habits.
Therapy for stress gives you the knowledge, support, and accountability to successfully and confidently make stress prevention & management a priority in your busy life.
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I always say, if you have to ask if you’re burned out you’re probably well on your way. Burnout is simply an extreme form of stress; it’s the result of chronic, unmanaged stress.
When stress overwhelms your nervous system, it begins to shut down. Rather than feeling keyed up and anxious, you start to feel depleted and like you’re “just done.”
Burnout is reversible, but it won’t fix itself. You have to be intentional about healing burnout.
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Absolutely. The same topics and methods used in therapy for stress are helpful for burnout, since burnout is just a lot of stress piled up over time.
Burnout recovery can take longer since it entails healing the nervous system, aka undoing the damage that long-term stress has done.
Therapy for burnout takes the mystery and overwhelm out of healing from burnout if you don’t know where to begin, or don’t have the energy or time to commit to researching solutions on your own.
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Stress and anxiety both involve the nervous system, so you might notice similar symptoms like muscle tension, difficulty sleeping, and irritability. But, they are different.
Stress is your body’s response to a stressor in your environment. Anxiety is characterized by fear and worry, with a focus on the future. Stress is a natural process, not a diagnosable condition like anxiety. To learn more about anxiety, visit my anxiety therapy page.