All About Stress & How To Overcome it with CBT, Therapy & Counselling in Wolverhampton & West Midlands

What is Stress?

Stress is how we describe the feeling that we experience when we are actively coping with challenging situations, either in our personal or business lives.

Stress is NOT an illness, it’s an emotional response although, as with many human emotional experiences, it has become socially defined as a problem.

Technically, it is our reaction to a threat where the threat can be existential, social, personal or financial.

Tranceform also offer help for work related stress and are an official supplier to the West Midlands Black Country NHS Clinical Commissioning Group who contract us for our Thriving at Work course.

We all experience stress in our daily lives and in fact many people believe that they perform more effectively when they are under stress.

However, some people find stress intolerable and when this is the case, our health can start to be affected in a negative way.

Different people are able to tolerate very different levels of Stress and this is probably due to the types of personality that we have, and to the general experiences that we have gone through in our lives, however, anybody CAN learn to manage how we react to any given stressful situation in more productive ways.

The counselling services we offer at Tranceform are specifically aimed at those people who are experiencing significant negative symptoms due to either highly stressful situations, or because of negative thinking patterns.

Signs & Symptoms of Stress

The signs and symptoms of stress fall into four basic categories:

Behavioural Symptoms

• Restlessness
• Irritability
• Anti-social behaviours
• Alcohol abuse
• Increased smoking

Physical Symptoms

• Vomiting
• Headaches
• Insomnia
• Chest pains
• Muscle tremors

Cognitive Symptoms

• Poor concentration
• Confusion
• Uncertainty
• Nervousness
• Nightmares

Emotional Symptoms

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Anger
• Guilt
• Grief

The Long Terms Effects of Stress

Un-managed stress can have a direct effect on well-being as well as physical health.

The study of stress and how it effects our bodies is known as psychoneuroimmunology or “PNI”.

Biological illnesses in which stress can be cited as a significant factor include:

• Diabetes
• Hair loss
• Heart disease
• Hyperthyroidism
• Obesity
• Sexual problems
• Tooth and gum disease
• Gastric ulcers

CBT for Stress

If you’re committed to overcoming your stress-related problems then we highly recommend following our Tranceformental CBT 10 session programme.

The Tranceformental programme is a highly successful & pragmatic course of CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) run over 10 sessions, that will teach you everything you need to know to understand the psychological aspects of your problem.

It can also help you to identify any unhelpful thinking styles or limiting beliefs that might be reinforcing the issue.

The programme is also available as an online self-help CBT programme. if you prefer not to consult a therapist directly.

CBT is an empirically supported approach used by mental health practitioners around the World.

Free Initial Consultations for Stress

We offer all prospective clients a FREE initial consultation to discuss your stress prior to commencing any treatment plans.

The consultation is free and lasts around 50 minutes.

During this consultation we will discuss the various therapy options that are available to you and make a considered recommendation based on your individual personal circumstances.

Initial consultations are also available as part of our online therapy service.

At Tranceform Psychology we recognise the importance of the therapeutic relationship in helping people to bring about effective change, so its important to be able to ‘meet’ to discuss any therapy treatments BEFORE proceeding.

Our policy is to help people make a fully balanced & considered decision about undertaking work with us, including both the financial and personal implications.