We offer individual therapy (that’s just you and the therapist) for stress in-person at our Centrepointe office in Ottawa or virtually by video anywhere in Ontario.
Working with Stress
Stress impacts all of us at different times in our busy lives. We live in a society that values doing more, being more, outputting more. This can take a toll on our ability to function, let alone feel content. Work, family life, personal relationships, physical health… keeping on top of all of these areas can be next to impossible. In therapy, we slow down to assess how you’re actually doing in each of these areas.
How stress works
Stress involves being under sustained pressure in a demanding environment.
While you think you may be able to define stress, we as therapists are more concerned with how stress impacts you specifically. How does stress show up in your body? What happens to your thoughts when you’re more stressed than usual? How do you cope with stress, and how would you prefer to cope with stress?
Many clients come to see us because they feel overwhelmed with life and feel unable to cope. Many start out in therapy disconnected from what’s going on around them and what’s going on inside of them.
Working with Stress
We’re trained as therapists to tailor our treatment to your unique needs. This means we can’t give one solid “This is how we work with stress all the time always” claim here. We can tell you that we most often work with life stress in these ways:
We understand reaching out takes effort. We try to make it as simple as possible. Send us an email, book a session using the link at the top of this page, review our Contact page – there is truly no wrong way to get in touch with us! And we aim to get back to you within 24-48 hours, because we know the wait can be a drag.
Let us know how we can help you!
