Stress Counselling
What is Stress?
Swift take a “systemic” perspective on stress, which we understand to be a mixture of experience, perceptions and symptoms arising from individuals within their work and other social contexts.
The word “stress” is a shorthand label our society has developed to describe a set of ideas about ill health, a lack of coping mechanisms and physical and emotional reactions to various factors in the environment.
We believe it’s useful to think of stress symptoms as a communication about the ‘fit’ between individuals and their environment. Typical symptoms of a ‘lack of fit’ in a workplace are feelings or perceptions of:
- Being bullied
- Being out of control and not on top of one’s job
- Not being listened to or valued
- Being a failure (despite a past history of success).
These feelings may often be accompanied by physical, emotional and behavioural reactions that can have severe consequences.
How Swift Counselling can help you?
We will look at the wider contexts of a person’s family, work and social life to enable the client to better understand where there is a ‘lack of fit’ between them and their environment. Then we tailor our use of various approaches to make that ‘fit’ a better one. For instance we may use:
- Cognitive Behavioural therapy (CBT) to counteract unhelpful self-beliefs such as being a failure
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to address issues like bullying
- Coaching to enable a person to express their concerns constructively, rather than get very angry and ‘out of control’
- Teach self-regulating techniques to help a client relax and de-stress in a particular ‘stressful’ environment.
Counselling for stress is a service offered by Swift counselling our Swindon practice.
Normally we are able to contact clients within 24 hours of them contacting us.
Services
Our approach to therapy
- Overview
- Supervision
- Systemic Psychotherapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Co-mediation
- SFBT (Solution Focussed Brief Therapy)
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Case Examples
- Non Violence Resistance
Testimonials
Following a car accident, I suffered terribly with a fight or flight response when driving. I did not know what this anxiety was and tried for months to recover on my own. After a particularly severe anxiety attack, I realised that I needed to get help. EMDR therapy was incredibly effective. My anxiety was linked specifically to the accident and in one session the anxiety was dispersed. I literally walked out of Swift Counselling, got in my car and drove with no anxiety from that moment on. I am thrilled with the results, thank you.
