Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Stouffville, ON.

I provide a judgment-free zone for my clients to explore their feelings of stress, anxiety, and panic. From short-term panic attacks to long-term work or school stress, we will work together to develop strategies for coping, self-compassion, and calmness during times of strife. We will also learn more about how the nervous system works to empower you with the knowledge to help yourself in a kind, empathetic, and understanding way.

Anxiety can be a positive motivator to be more prepared. Or, it can destabilize, stopping you in your tracks with fear of unknown consequences. Finding a balance between useful anxiety versus anxiety that undermines you is key. By developing your ability to be mindfully observant, we explore your triggers to understand the thoughts and impacts that result. You learn how the brain works so you can move from reflex reactions to thoughtful decisions. You will gain tools to help you appreciate how to manage thoughts and emotions. Anxious feelings will decrease as recognition of your choices and power increase. A focus on the present is a small step towards lessening anxiety. Reach out now.

I’ve been helping people lead more intentional lives for over 20 years. Anxiety can cause thoughts to be out of proportion to reality, stop you from doing what you want to do, and make you feel out of control. I’m trained in cognitive behavioral therapy, developmental models,and anxiety and depression management. I will support you in creating a set of tools to help you manage your anxiety. Most importantly, you're a distinctive person, with distinctive needs. My goal is to work with you as a unique individual, and focus on YOUR goals.

Oftentimes people view anxiety as a bad feeling, however, through their work with me clients often find ways to live with their anxiety and turn the situation around. Anxiety is generally a fear of a wide variety of things, by addressing the roots of the anxiety and understanding that it can be faced head on, clients often find relief from the things that make them anxious. My work with anxiety is always gradual and clients are first made comfortable with their anxiety and then learn to cope and at times reduce anxieties where appropriate.

Anxiety shows up in the mind and body and can range from irritating and distracting to completely debilitating. There are proven strategies and methods to coping with anxiety, and interrupting the physical stress response that can assist us in finding equilibrium during periods of anxiety or panic. Therapy can assist us in understanding where our anxiety comes from, while also developing strategies to cope with anxiety and move away from feelings of overwhelm and panic.

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Have you been struggling with overthinking, perfectionism, or obsessive behaviour? If you are feeling overwhelmed or are dealing with challenges related to anxious thinking, I can help you make sense of your thoughts. We will work together to create an individualized treatment plan aimed at reducing your anxious thoughts and behaviours and restoring your sense of calm and confidence. Let me help get you back to feeling like yourself again.

The experience of stress and anxiety can be a challenging one to navigate alone. Throughout sessions, we will work to understand activators of stress and anxiety, develop management tools that serve you best, and explore the various meanings and purposes that stress and anxiety serve in your life. Contact me for a free consultation to learn more about my approach and to see if we would be a good fit.

Anxiety and stress, in and of themselves, are not bad things. In fact, they are both natural and necessary to living! Where stress and anxiety often become problematic is in our response to them, and when our coping strategies simply outweigh the demands of a situation. At New Roots Therapy, we can work with you to help change your relationship with anxiety and stress by focusing on what you can and can't control, helping you re-connect to the present moment through the use of mindfulness practices, and supporting you in the development of effective coping skills.

Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. It helps one deal with a tense situation in the office, study harder for an exam, or keep focused on an important speech. In general, it helps one cope. But when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it has become a disabling disorder. These are typical symptoms that can help you identify an anxiety problem: * Sweaty palms * Muscle tension * Fast heart-bit and chest pain * Dizziness * Flushed cheeks * Difficulty breathing The physical sensations appear along with thoughts which undermine the ability to cope and overestimates risks. My treatment includes CBT, mindfulness and hypnotherapy.

I utlize a cognitive behavioural therapy approach to treat anxiety and stress. I work with the client to help them identify the thoughts that they may be having that lead to feelings of stress and anxiety. We also work to identify patterns and habits in the individuals life that may be leading to habitual feelings of stress and anxiety. We work in session as well as the client is given homework in which there are specific strateiges that they are asked to experiment with in their environment.

Studies on the benefits of Neurofeedback continue to demonstrate positive results, with thousands of clients improving their quality of life with these non-invasive, drug-free treatments. Neurofeedback can be helpful for symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, depression, cognitive and sensory integration, sleep problems and pain. Even people that struggle with developmental trauma and can gain access to the underlying root cause of their symptomatology and can optimize the neuroplasticity of the brain, supporting an improved success rate when combined with psychotherapy treatment.

Integration of talk therapy with holistic body centred modalities: Giving space for the client to explore and express feelings, own awareness’s, transform thoughts, grieve, vent, and neutralize guilt, anger and fear. New understandings and thus new neural pathways begin to form. Somatic focusing: A profound process of accessing the deep subconscious through breathe work And Life Coaching, meditation, visualization, Emotional Freedom Technique, New Decision Therapy, Polarity Therapy, Cranosacral, Reiki, forgiveness and acceptance work, supplements for brain chemistry balancing are very effective as well. Also CBT, EFT . The combination is powerful.

Anxiety and stress can be treated using a variety of techniques that look towards changing situations, thought patters, and behaviours that work to reduce both percieved and acutal stress/anxiety levels. Psychoeducation allows the client to obtain both the knowledge and skills that can be used to better manage stressors as they arise. As well, simply taking the time to vent your worries and concerns to an unbiased party can greatly help to immediatley reduce stress while allowing you to see the situation from a more realistic perspective.

Struggling with anxiety? Take a step towards peace of mind with compassionate support. As a dedicated psychotherapist, I specialize in guiding individuals through anxiety with evidence-based techniques tailored to your unique needs. Together, we'll cultivate resilience and empower you to manage stress effectively. Begin your journey towards calm and confidence today.

In life, we face various stressors and there are times when we may feel anxious, overwhelmed, or helpless. Finding a way to calm the body and mind can be difficult, regardless of whether this is a new struggle or one you have been dealing with for years. I believe that therapy can be a safe container in which stress and anxiety can be explored and worked through. Should you reach out for help, I will work with you to help you better understand how stress and anxiety impact you and I will also help you to develop coping strategies that may invite more calmness and that may support you in feeling empowered. Contact me or book a free consultation if you wish to learn more.

Anxiety and stress, sometimes they're manageable... sometimes they aren't. If you are having difficulty managing the anxiety and stress, I strive to work with people to navigate and explore their stressors to understand them and gain insight and perspective into those stress patterns so we can collaboratively devise empowering ways to manage them.

Stress is normal and useful. When we experience too much it is like a gas tank over-filling. This can be dangerous as even just a little stress ("spark") can trigger an anxiety attack or angry outburst. Managing stress and stress levels is very important. Remember, deep breathing... three to five 15-20 second breaths can calm and balance out body and emotion. Then, and only then, can we utilize the many other strategies available to lower stress, resolve problems and improve the relationships valuable to us. Email or contact us at www.jeffpacker.com for more helpful tips.

In many cases, an integrative approach of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and psychotherapy is used to help you manage stress and anxiety. Cognitive-behavioural therapy aims to help you change your emotional response and behaviour by changing your thoughts. If our thoughts happen so quickly and automatically, how can we change a stress response that is perpetuated by such challenging or negative thoughts? Using cognitive-behavioural strategies, we can slow down the thought process by creating a heightened awareness of them. As we observe them, we can make significant changes in our automatic thoughts, and subsequently, change our emotional response and the way we respond as a result.

At my practice, I take a personalized and holistic approach to anxiety and stress treatment and counseling. I understand that anxiety and stress can manifest in different ways for each individual, and I work with my clients to identify the underlying causes and triggers of their symptoms. Together, we develop coping mechanisms, stress reduction techniques, and mindfulness strategies to help manage and alleviate their anxiety and stress. I also incorporate cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and other evidence-based practices to help clients reframe negative thought patterns and develop a more positive mindset. By working together, clients can learn to manage their anxiety and stress and achie

Anxiety is internalized prolonged internal stress. Often people are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. It is completely understandable with the world we live in today and all the expectations placed on we can often become overwhelmed. It can be a forever on going pressure from anything such as, ageing; being alone; illness losing a job/family member/possession. Things that require action can also be heavy stress factors; relationships; losing weight; intimacy; career. Our inner state of mind; feeling rejected, like a failure; low self-image. Etc. "This is not true you have handled everything up till now". Reaching out for support is the first step to creating change.

There are many approaches to treat anxiety and stress and these will depend on the nature and severity of the symptoms. Each person is unique, and I will provide a comfortable space for the client to explore the roots to their anxiety and stress. Together we will find new ways of understanding the difficult emotions and work toward strategies that will assist or allieviate the symptoms and provide meaningful ways to engage in life.

While most treatment approaches for anxiety and stress are effective on the surface, they don’t treat the real problem. Mantras, deep breathing, and rational dialogues about your fear being irrational rarely work---for most people don’t believe it or you! Imagine if you can trick the brain into changing without you telling your conscious mind that you are changing it? Problem with anxiety and stress is that the brain in this state knows you want to change it and it resists. Contact Kevin@kevinfleminphd.com for the ultimate stress and anxiety solution that will literally change your brain's autonomic nervous system patterns while you sit on your butt. 877-606-6161.

We all struggle from time to time with the pressures and the stressors of life. You are not alone in this journey. Together, we will find helpful ways to deal with anxiety and stress and find healthy coping mechanisms that work for you. We will utilize the resources available around you, find new strategies, and develop a plan to mitigate your anxiety and stress.

In my experience, the combination of schema therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an effective approach to dealing with anxiety. This method digs deeper than CBT alone and brings forth insights that guide us to specific stress and anxiety management priorities tailored to your needs. This is an amplified form of CBT that will open a new door to your recovery.