Coping with Stress

Coping with Stress involves using applied psychology and CBT-Based tools.

Stress is a reaction to a situation in which we ‘feel’ under pressure although it has been argued that without any kind of stress at all that we would not be motivated to do ‘anything.

So in this respect, stress is also a normal human experience. Stress becomes problematic when we are feeling under too much mental or emotional pressure.

This pressure turns into adverse stress when you feel unable to cope.

Adverse stress causes hormones to be released into your blood-stream to enable you to deal with pressures or threats and create the ‘flight’ or ‘fight’ response which is indistinguishable from feelings of anxiety.

This reaction is a ‘hard-wired’, unconscious response that evolved when we might have been ‘food’ for wild animals back in our ancestral history.

Coping with Stress – Key Ideas

If you want to be better at coping with stress then there are a number of key points worth understanding:

• Stress itself does not harm you – coping with stress means learning that you can tolerate the feelings, even if they are unpleasant
• Your stress response is your own, personal response to pressure, or what you ‘believe’ is a pressure situation
• Stress is a normal response – but we all cope with stress in our own unique way
• Coping with stress requires changing your beliefs about pressure and when its appropriate to experience stress
• Stress is an ‘outcome’ of a thought or thoughts, either conscious or unconscious, not the ’cause’ of anything
• What stresses some people is not a problem for others, so stress is linked to perception

Coping with Stress by Not Creating It

The most effective and sustainable way of coping with stress is by learning how to manage your thinking processes more effectively.

The fact is that we ‘create’ the stress ‘response’ through cognitive, or ‘thinking’, processes based on what we believe is happening, or about to happen ‘to us’.

So one of the key concepts for coping with stress is recognising that YOU are the architect of this feeling – its NOT simply happening to you, you are creating it in the first place.

This is GOOD news because you can also learn how to un-create it (or simply not create it in the first place).

Work-Related Stress

If you’re not coping with stress at work then you might be interested in reading our pages about work related stress and the six known ’causes’ or ‘situations’ associated with stress in this environment.

We offer professional mental health at work services for both employees as well as the management structure.

Coping with Stress Using CBT

We do not know of any better method of coping with stress than by following our advanced beliefs-based CBT programme with us here at Tranceform.

The course provides a totally new way of dealing with ‘mental health problems’ that is not based on the medico-psychiatric-model of ‘disorders’ and ‘illnesses’.

There is plenty of research indicating that ‘labeling’ people as ‘mentally ill’ not only causes additional problems, but also leads people to feeling ‘powerless’ when it comes to solving the problems associated with stress-related problems.

Read our post ‘psychiatric diagnosis, fact or fiction‘ to find out more.

Transform Your Thinking & Learn How to Cope with Stress

If you’re committed to overcoming your stress problems then we highly recommend following our Advanced Tranceformental CBT programme with Paul. Tranceformental CBT is available as Online Therapy if required.

The Tranceformental programme is a highly successful & pragmatic psychotherapy course, run over 10 sessions, that will teach you everything you need to know to understand your problem, identify how unhelpful thinking and limiting beliefs might be reinforcing the issue, and then show you how to make any changes to your unhelpful thinking styles or maladaptive safety behaviours that you may have developed as part of your coping strategies.

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

Self-Help CBT Course for only £149!

Our online self-help CBT course has been designed to teach you the fundamental tools and techniques of clinically proven Cognitive Behavioural Therapy without having to see a therapist.

Structured over TEN, in-depth modules, this course will provide you everything you need to know to change the way you think about and experience your mental health problems from the comfort of your own home.

Click Self-Help CBT to find out more.

Free Initial Consultations to Discuss Coping with Stress More Effectvely

We offer all prospective clients an initial consultation to discuss your stress-related mental health problems prior to commencing any counselling.

The consultation is free and lasts around 50 minutes.

During this consultation we will discuss the various types of psychological therapy 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 counselling service.

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

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