Stress is an epidemic that effects billions of people worldwide. The costs are high: for individual health and wellbeing, for families and communities, for workplaces, and economies as a whole.  Research carried out in 2018 showed that 74% of UK adults have felt so stressed at some point that they felt overwhelmed or unable to cope; 32% said they had experienced suicidal feelings as a result of stress, whilst 16% reported they had self-harmed because of stress.  

Unfortunately, stress often goes unresolved, which may be due to misconceptions such as: stress is good for you; suffering from stress is a sign of wellness; acknowledging stress suggests weakness, or it may be due to a lack of knowledge of effective methods to reduce or heal symptoms of stress.  

Long-lasting stress and extreme pressure is highly detrimental to health and wellbeing. It can have a substantial negative effect on daily functioning, as well as cause prolonged experiences of unhappiness.  Further, evidence suggests that chronic stress is linked to premature ageing, heart disease, asthma, obesity, diabetes, migraines, and even premature death.  

How To Address Stress

Stress is a mental, emotional and physiological response to environmental stressors such as excessive workload/constant criticism, bullying, mobbing, toxic relationships, etc.  Therefore, to resolve stress effectively and to improve your health requires consideration of all these factors.  

Sometimes however, a practical solution to resolve a stressor or conflict may be all that is required to alleviate stress levels.  For example, speaking directly to a person you feel is behaving inappropriately to bring about a resolution; ending a toxic relationship; removing yourself from a toxic workplace by finding a new job, and so forth; this may be all that is needed to get your health back to normal.  

However, more often than not, people are faced with stressors that they cannot simply resolve or get rid of.  Moreover, once stress becomes chronic, it makes addressing stressors even more difficult.  This is because chronic stress has a detrimental effect on people’s cognitive abilities, in particular, thinking clearly and decision making can be quite affected when our inbuilt survival mechanism of ‘fight’, ‘flight’ or ‘freeze’ is constantly activated.  

As such, addressing symptoms of stress at a mental and emotional level first will result in a number of benefits, such as:

• Deactivate the ‘fight’, ‘flight’ or freeze’ alarm reaction.
• Stop obsessive thinking/worry
• Feel more calm and relaxed psychologically and physically
• Restore cognitive functions 
• Find constructive solutions to address stressor(s) and maintain good health.  

How Can You Achieve This?  

With strong therapeutic support and the application of one or more of the following modalities you are guaranteed to improve your health and quality of life.  

EMDR: Eye movement desensitisation reprocessing is a psychotherapeutic technique that helps people to heal from mental, emotional, and physical distress that can occur from experiencing highly stressful events by using eye movements, whilst the person recalls aspects of a conflict. Bilateral stimulation, such as moving your eyes from right to left whilst experiencing aspects of a stressful event, helps to fully process a traumatic memory as it should have been processed at the time, thus creating lasting change to the memory.

EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) incorporates and builds on various traditional and non-traditional medicine models such as acupuncture, thought field therapy, cognitive restructuring strategies, and NLP, to help people transform negative thoughts, emotions and behaviours, and enhance mental wellbeing.  EFT is proven to successfully treat anxiety, stress, depression and PTSD.  

EFT is not only effective for treating symptoms of stress, but it can also be cross applied to alleviate other mental and physical health symptoms.

Somatic Therapy: Somatic therapy is a body-centred approach that explores sensations, as well as emotions and memories experienced within the framework of the body.  The primary focus of this therapy is to heal emotional distress and restore balance to the body’s energy system, which can become disrupted due to experiencing stressors, conflicts or traumas.

Finding Solutions To Environmental Problems 

Usually, following the application of the aforementioned techniques, people know exactly how to address any environmental stressor(s).  However, there are also many effective evidence-based conflict resolution and self-care techniques, and I will go through these with you to help you to cope with, minimise or eliminate stress  moving forward.  

Take The Next Step To Transform Your Health And Wellbeing. 

Chronic stress can severely limit a persons quality of life, causing unhappiness, disability and illness.  However, it is possible to heal from mental, emotional and physiological symptoms of stress, and face future stressors with calm and confidence.  

With a 100% Guaranteed Service, you can get the help you need with peace of mind. 

Contact me for a free consultation today to learn more about treatment and support options.  Offering online and in-person sessions in Birmingham, UK.

In addition to conducting individually tailored face-to-face sessions, I also conduct monthly group  workshops at WellQo wellbeing; these are specifically designed to inform you all about how stress works, as well as to teach and apply straightforward evidence-based techniques to resolve mental stress.

How You Will Benefit By Attending An Individual Session Or Workshop:

• Learn how to heal chronic mental stress
• Positively handle stress
• Learn to deal with stress early on and spot the early warning signs 
• Feel in control, relaxed, and calm
• Learn practical techniques to address stressors such as unemployment, financial difficulties, relationship problems, physical illness, and/or major life changes
• Improve performance
• Build emotional resilience & improve your health & wellbeing.  
• Personalised support options to address any underlying health problems.

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“I Learned the method of EFT effectively and saw great results; the workshop helped me to feel better about myself” Nadia

“Based on my experience, I would recommend this workshop to others” Yaz

“Overall an informative and helpful workshop which I feel many can benefit from. Was made to feel very welcome so thank you” Tahira

“Extremely useful workshop, helped resolve my issues around nightmares and negative thoughts with the help of EFT. Regained a sense of wellbeing and felt positivity moving forward. Professional advice and support was offered at every session, I found the therapist very understanding and patient. Problem was resolved, would definitely recommend to all” Shazi

“Sadaf helped through a difficult patch using EFT therapy, I was able to talk through my worries and concerns with confidence. Felt much happier after treatment and was able to return to college and resume life :-)” – Iman