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Stress

Stress Management Counselling

How to Manage Stress?

Has anyone ever told you to relax?

Have you ever been told that you need to reduce the stress in your life?

Are you actually able to relax on command?

Understanding Your Stress Symptoms

A comprehensive wellness plan and counselling support can assist you in developing the skills and techniques that assist in the ability to relax.  We can seldom reduce the stressors in our lives.  What we can do instead is work through our emotional concerns while building a lifestyle and coping strategies that increasing our resiliency to stress.  Essentially responding to stress differently.

How stress management counselling can be helpful?

Stress management counselling can be an invaluable tool in helping people cope with the pressures of everyday life.

Stress management counselling helps individuals to understand the sources of their stress and helps them develop ways to cope with and reduce it.

Counselling can assist with identifying the signs and symptoms of stress, understanding the causes of stress and learning how to manage and reduce it. Counselling can also assist with helping the individual to develop healthier coping strategies to manage stress and identify positive lifestyle changes to reduce stress.

We can assist you in determining the nature of your concern and creating a plan to decrease your overall anxiety and stress.

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Anxiety, Stress, Depression & Pregnancy

Counselling to Relief Stress, Anxiety & Depression Symptoms Related to Pregnancy

Prenatal & Post-natal

Pregnancy can be an exciting time for many women.  

It can also be a time when women experience a layering of emotions.  

Although there are excitement and anticipation, it can also be a time of stress for many women.

How to cope with Stress, Anxiety, Depression During and After Pregnancy

Hearing yet another person tell them to “RELAX” ends up increasing tension and anxiety.

Blood pressure concerns during pregnancy are a common concern for clients.  Attempting natural blood pressure regulation can become another layer of stress during pregnancy.  Women find themselves under a great deal of pressure to “relax” and decrease blood pressure, without any skills or tips in how to go about doing so.

Stress, anxiety and depression during pregnancy can be managed.

Research supports a combination of counselling, relaxation therapy  (which may include visualizations, yoga therapy, mindfulness practice or meditation) as well as medication (as recommended).

Symptoms of Stress, Anxiety, Depression During and After Pregnancy

Among the symptoms clients have described:

  • disturbed sleeping patterns
  • early morning wakings
  • inability to initiate sleep
  • vivid dreaming with high emotional content
  • stressful thoughts about birth and delivery
  • intrusive thoughts about pregnancy loss

Effective & Trained Registered Clinical Counsellors Supporting you During your Pregnancy

Each pregnancy is unique and presents with new joys and challenges. 

We are experienced in supporting women during pregnancy

to provide concrete stress management tools, relaxation, and self-hypnosis techniques, 

as well as working through particularly stressful thoughts and feelings.