Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Delisle, SK.

Anxiety and stress can steal your enthusiasm for life, reduce your confidence, and interfere with your life. If you have been experiencing feelings of dread or fear or if you are fed up with anxiety stopping you from doing the things you would like to do, there are a variety of counseling approaches and techniques that I can employ to help. Together we will work to help you overcome the negative thoughts and beliefs that fuel your anxiety and adopt strategies to increase your resilience.

Everyone feels anxiety at some point in their lives but when it starts to interfere with your life, counseling can help. Although anxiety can feel debilitating, it is treatable. People with anxiety don’t always share the same symptoms, they vary from person to person. Therapy will help you to reclaim your life and function in a chronically stressful world.

Bev gently works with clients to help them tame their anxiety. Bev uses techniques to help clients get to the root of the anxiety and to work to resolve the issue. Bev works with clients to help them recognize first degree emotions and how to process those emotions so they begin to have mastery over them, and in the process, become more assertive about their needs. Bev teaches clients to recognize their own stress and stressors. Bev helps clients have inner permission to de-stress and helps client explore ways to de-stress and methods of de-stressing. Bev also helps clients appreciate stress as in eustress or optimal stress, as well as to recognize the lack of challenge or over-stress.

Anxiety is part of being human and is an emotion we all experience. However, anxiety can at times take over one’s life and result in constant worry and fear about the past, present, and future. I will explore with you, in a kind, caring, and non-judgmental way, some of the central issues that might be causing your anxiety. And help you learn grounding and body awareness techniques that refocus your attention in the present moment to cope with triggers.

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Anxiety can arise from real or perceived threats, leaving you feeling like your internal resources are insufficient to cope. It can immobilize or drive you to avoid uncomfortable thoughts and fears of potential outcomes. Life inherently carries moments of angst, but often, we find ourselves needlessly consumed by worries about the future – many of which may never materialize. I'm here to help you unravel the roots of your anxious thoughts, drawing from your past and present experiences to identify strengths and new coping techniques. Through this process, you'll gradually experience reduced anxiety and heightened self-esteem.

Anxiety and stress are useful emotions and feelings in our lives. We need a certain amount of stress to be productive, motivated and successful. Like stress, anxiety has a functional purpose, to make us vigilant and on guard to protect our selves. Yet too much anxiety or stress can be a problem. Tiredness, relationship issues, physical health issues and the like can result. Facing the issues with courage and strength can usually provide relief if not an answer.

Narrative Therapy Approach to Grief Part of processing a loss is finding a new purpose. Sometimes this means using a compass made of different values than before. Narrative Therapy can help you regain control over your life story. When you begin narrative therapy you can dictate how you will move forward, and rewrite your experience of the grief you feel.

Are you living your life constantly feeling on-edge? Are you a worrier who can't seem to turn it off? Does anxiety or stress keep you from being fully present for your family? As an anxiety and stress specialist, I know rough this can be. But there is hope. Together, we can deploy powerful techniques to get you feeling calm, relaxed, and emotionally thriving, so you can effectively deal with life challenges. Imagine: going about your day feeling excited rather than worried, confident rather than stressed, and focused rather than scattered. If you’re ready to stop worrying and start living, reach out.

My approach supports client competencies (strengths) and solution based therapy. With sensitivity and compassion, I work with each client to help them build on solutions to their unique struggles and issues. I also have training in Art and Narrative Therapy, REBT, and Existential approaches. As well, I offer Parent Education Training assistance. I help individuals navigate through issues related to stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. I have a special interest in working with couples and relationship issues. My approach relies on extensive experience in Solution Focused Brief Therapy, TEAM-CBT, and MI.

While our bodies are perfectly designed to adapt and react to stress, modern problems mean that we tend to detect life threatening dangers in very ordinary places. Conflicts at work, arguments in our relationships and uncertainties such as the post-Covid world activate old survival mechanisms. We may be stuck in the buzzing, fear states of ‘fight-flight’ or the numb and paralyzed states of ‘freeze and shut down.’ The good news is that I have a long history of safely and successfully helping individuals and couples to reduce and release stress using a variety of CBT and mindfulness techniques, as well as trauma-informed therapy. You have my commitment to compassionate and educated care.

Stress is an everyday fact of life, one that we cannot avoid. Not all stress is bad and it is, in fact, essential to life. If you interpret events in your life in a negative way you are likely to provoke anxiety. In order to make positive changes you will need to understand how you cope with stress. After a few sessions you will have a number of adaptive ways to cope with stress and a much more positive outlook on life.

Anxiety and stress can rob you of the ability to enjoy life, reduce your productivity, and frazzle your nerves. I will help you better understand how anxiety specifically affects you. Using evidence-based methods, we will develop a plan to reduce your stress. You will learn how to create calm in your body and your mind. You will improve your concentration, identify personal strengths, increase your self-esteem, find that you have more patience, and be able to enjoy life again.

Anxiety is a major issue that needs to be addressed and properly maintained to achieve balance in life. Interesting to learn is that there is such a thing as positive anxiety: "eustress". Eustress is the perfect amount of anxiety to keep one attentive, alert, and performing well. "Distress" on the other hand, will create a shut-down or dysfunction in behaviour. Critical to understand is that negative messages we send ourselves ('Cognitive Distortions') significantly contribute to distress. Anxiety is real and it can be overwhelming. But it doesn't have to be.