Stress management
What is stress management?
World Psychologists offers companies stress management services, both preventive and for those affected by stress and burnout syndrome. We also provide leadership coaching to help employers effectively manage employees with stress-related issues and prevent staff from experiencing harmful stress.
Balance between stress and recovery
The body requires a balance between stress and recovery. Prolonged exposure to stress can lead to reduced resilience—physically, cognitively, and psychologically. Accumulation of multiple negative events can eventually lead to a tipping point, resulting in a stress reaction. Causes of stress symptoms can be work-related or personal issues. With professional support, you can receive help to sort out and identify the areas and issues causing stress.
By learning more about yourself, your abilities, and limitations, you can regain balance in life and find approaches and inner strength to make the changes needed to take better care of yourself. Often, practicing healthy self-assertion is an important part of the treatment, where you learn to listen to your needs, feelings, thoughts, and desires and address them. Setting boundaries is also a crucial aspect of stress management.
Tools for problems
World Psychologists has extensive experience working with employees in various complex organisations. We use effective tools to counteract problems that typically arise in different challenging situations. Stress management can be provided through individual sessions, lectures, or group discussions.
Four groups of stress reactions
Stress reactions can be divided into four groups: cognitive, physiological, emotional, and behavioural stress reactions.
Cognitive stress reactions may include scattered thoughts, difficulty concentrating on one task at a time, forgetfulness, losing words mid-conversation, not being mentally present in the moment but constantly focused on the next "must-do," and negative thoughts about not having enough time, being capable, or having the energy.
Physiological stress reactions can occur when the body, mind, and brain do not get sufficient rest and recovery time. Reactions can include headaches, fatigue, lack of desire, sleep difficulties, stomach problems, dizziness, anxiety, sweating, and heart palpitations. A stressed person is also at increased risk of experiencing panic attacks.
Behavioural stress reactions might manifest as difficulties with multitasking, short-term thinking, impulsive decision-making, and a tendency to make more mistakes than usual. Abandoning hobbies and isolating oneself can also be symptoms of stress. Reactions may also appear as increased consumption of coffee, sugar, food, alcohol, or medication.
Emotional stress reactions can present as increased sensitivity to demands, feelings of hopelessness, emptiness, meaninglessness, and emotional imbalance; for example, a "short fuse" or being easily moved to tears. Sometimes, stress is linked to temporary or fundamental low self-esteem, high personal demands, difficulty saying no or making personal choices, and a weak belief in one's ability to influence the situation; that is, a feeling of lack of control and lack of support.
Change is possible
In therapy, you have the opportunity to clarify your situation. With increased insight into the factors contributing to imbalance and hindering you from feeling better, changes become possible, and your options broaden. Prolonged stress with insufficient recovery can lead to burnout syndrome. Stress management is used both preventively and when a person is close to or has crossed the threshold for burnout syndrome.
When you collaborate with World Psychologists, you can expect the following:
It is free to be connected with World Psychologists. There are no ongoing costs except when your employees have psychology sessions.
We always offer tailored treatments and solutions to our clients.
All our therapists are chartered psychologists or registered psychotherapists.
We offer CBT, ACT, and psychodynamic therapy in our treatments, depending on the current issues and the individual's needs.
We have extensive experience in preventive conversations and treatments for stress, anxiety, depression, crises, addiction, relationship problems, conflict management, etc.
We start with a phone call to match the employee with the right therapist. The match is important for the treatment to be appropriate and effective. They are assigned a psychologist whom they meet for an assessment. We then provide a recommendation.
We always contact the individual within 24 hours and always schedule an appointment within 5 days.
We offer appointment times during the day, evening, and weekends at clinics in London.
We also offer therapy via video and phone.
We provide therapy in Swedish, English, Spanish, Persian, and Finnish.
We also offer
Assessment sessions: where, after 1–3 sessions, we provide feedback to the employer on how the employee is doing, with consent. For example, if there is a risk of stress-related ill health, burnout syndrome, or similar.
Coaching sessions: both leadership coaching and employee coaching.
Stress programs: for example, ten weeks for those who are exhausted, stress prevention programs of five sessions.
Lectures for HR, managers, and employees on stress, burnout, preventive work, addiction, etc.
How we work
You can inform employees and managers that you have a collaboration with World Psychologists and that they can contact us if they need psychology sessions. They can contact us, and we will respond within a few hours. Then we have a phone call where we understand what they are seeking help for and match them with the right therapist.
It is free to be connected with World Psychologists. There are no ongoing costs except when your employees have psychology sessions. You can choose clinic, video, or phone sessions. After the first session, we provide a recommendation on the number of sessions we believe may be needed – for example, three or five. If you approve this, we will continue the sessions with the employee or manager.