Therapy for Stress
Are you stressed out? Do you feel overwhelmed by work, family life, and other responsibilities? Has the stress impacted your sleep or general sense of wellbeing? Are you burned out, lost, or just ready to give up?
Let us help!
Behavioral Medicine Partners offers stress management therapy for adults from all over the area – people just like you.
We are proud to offer individual instruction in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), which is a specialized approach to decreasing and managing stress.
You can take your first steps towards a stress-free life. Contact us today to get started. Or, to learn more about stress and how therapy can help, read on!
Do I need therapy for stress?
Stress is a normal part of life, but too much of anything can be a bad thing.
Here’s why.
Imagine for a moment that you keep all of your stress, responsibilities, and worries a bucket. Sometimes, the bucket might feel manageable, light and easy to carry. Sometimes, it might be too heavy even to pick up. And sometimes, it might even overflow, spill, and make a mess. When people experience too much stress and worry, their stress bucket just can’t hold the many responsibilities of life.
Here are a few of the top indicators that your stress bucket is overflowing:
Feeling overwhelmed and exhausted
Frequent arguments and conflict with others
Being irritable, grumpy, or on-edge
Difficulty with sleep (too much, not enough, not feeling rested)
Unintentional changes in body weight
Muscle tension, aches, and pains
Wanting just to give up
Being overwhelmed with stress happens to everyone from time to time. However, if things don’t improve and the stress remains, health issues can arise – high blood pressure, anxiety, depression, and more.
Fortunately, stress management therapy can help stressed out people recover, rest, and regain a sense of control. If you or a loved one are overwhelmed by stress, don’t wait. Contact us today to get signed up for your first session.
How can therapy for stress help?
Therapy gives you a chance to set the stress bucket aside, feel supported, and learn to make things different.
Often, the stress is reduced simply by having someone truly listen and validate your emotional experience. However, that only tends to help until the stress comes back. So, we try to teach you how to deal with stress outside the therapy office.
Specifically, therapy can help you learn to use three stress-management strategies:
People tend to take on too much, prioritize the needs of others, and attempt to control the uncontrollable. People who provide care for others, such as parents raising children, caretakers, and healthcare providers are particularly at-risk of being overloaded with responsibility. Therapy can help you learn to set healthy boundaries with life’s many demands so that you have more resources for your own health.
Similarly, we tend to focus too much on output, rather than input. We focus on being productive, we work overtime, and chase our dreams; and sometimes, our human needs are set aside. Therapy can teach you ways to recharge and find a healthy, functional, sustainable work-life balance.
And sometimes, stress makes us disconnected from others and ourselves. The burden of stress, responsibility, and worry falls completely on you – and that can be quite lonely. Therapy for stress can help as we work to reconnect you with yourself and build on real-world relationships.
All of these strategies can help reduce your stress. However, MBSR takes things to the next level by adding in the fourth component of mindfulness.
Mindfulness is all about regaining a sense of self, achieving awareness, and finding psychological freedom. MBSR also uses meditative practices and body relaxation techniques to help augment your ability to rest and recover. Additionally, MBSR seeks to help you understand and achieve what truly matters most to you.
As you learn to set boundaries, recharge, reconnect, and use strategies from MBSR, your capacity to handle whatever life throws your way will increase. If you are interested and ready to get started, let’s connect.
To learn more about mindfulness and MBSR please visit: https://www.umassmemorialhealthcare.org/umass-memorial-center-mindfulness.
How is therapy with Behavioral Medicine Partners different?
All therapy services are provided by board-certified Clinical Health Psychologist, Dr. Danielle Koby.
Dr. Koby is a highly supportive, compassionate clinician and expert on the intersection of physical and psychological health. Her practice focuses on helping clients overcome barriers to wellness through evidence-based practices and collaborative care. In addition to using Health Psychology in treatment, Dr. Koby utilizes techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and is a trained teacher of certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). All sessions are completely confidential and held in the comfort of our beautiful office at Davis Parkway.
MBSR is an incredibly effective therapy option that requires additional training and expertise. Stress reduction therapy is specifically designed to help you:
Have an increased sense of freedom and autonomy
Be open-minded and open-hearted
Shift your attention and focus
Understand mindful practices that improve awareness
Use relaxation exercises that actually work
Discover a life free from stress and worry
Overcome burnout and loss of motivation
You deserve a chance to unload the bucket, recover, and break away from the stress.
Contact us today to get started.
Interested? Let’s Work Together.
Interested in signing up for your first session? Don’t wait - we would love to hear from you!
We work with adults from Warrenville, Naperville, Downers Grove, Lisle, Aurora, Glen Ellyn, Oak Brook, Wheaton, and beyond. Our treatment services cover a range of issues, such as:
Therapy for Depression
Therapy for Grief and Loss
Therapy for Stress
Therapy for Health Issues
Support for Women’s Health Issues
Therapy for Insomnia
Therapy for Weight Loss
Therapy for Medical Professionals and Caregivers
If you have questions or would like further information, let us know!
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28379 Davis Parkway, Unit 801, Warrenville, IL 60555
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