Denver stress
management therapists
Take control of and learn to let go of your stress.
How stress affects people in Denver
Stress is a normal and natural part of life for almost everyone. In some way, shape or form, everyone experiences some level of stress from time to time, whether that’s in Denver or elsewhere. However, when stress becomes chronic or unmanageable, it can have a significant, negative impact on your physical health and mental well-being because of the effects of constant stress on your personal life, or your ability to find a healthy work-life balance. Learning effective stress management and stress reduction skills and techniques can have a positive effect on your life and mental health that goes well beyond stressful moments.
Our Denver stress therapists have decades of combined experience helping people manage their stress. We understand how stress affects people in ways that are often specific to the person, their background, and their everyday lives. It can cause physical symptoms such as headaches, muscle tension throughout the body, stomach problems, and difficulty falling or staying asleep. It can also lead to emotional problems such as anxiety, depression, and general irritability in different parts of people’s lives.
Stress can also make it feel difficult to concentrate, make decisions, and cope with everyday challenges as things feel like they might be piling up. This can lead to many issues, including substance abuse and anger management issues, that make the effects of stress become even more prominent in everyday life, especially when managing a stressful change like a losing a job.
If you’re feeling stressed, it’s important to find healthy stress management skills that improve your emotional and physical health. Our expert stress therapists can help with that. While there are many different things you can do to manage stress on your own, therapy helps to transform how stress manifests in your life, mental health, and affects you.
Our trained therapists in Denver, Colorado can help you treat stress, using methods that include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. We can teach you practical coping skills and stress management strategies for treating stress in ways that are specific to your life. We also help you understand the root of your stress and develop healthy ways to deal with it so that stress no longer takes over your life.
How stress management therapy helps
Therapy is a safe and confidential space where you can talk about your stress and what’s causing it without any fear of judgment. Some level of stress is inevitably part of life, but stress management therapy helps you learn life-changing skills that make you feel like you can have control again.
When you see one of our therapists for stress management counseling, they’re there to work together with you and help you find effective ways to manage your stress and develop stress management skills in ways that fit your life, context, and situation. Our stress therapists provide in-person therapy in Greenwood Village, Douglas County, and Denver, Colorado.
If you are feeling stressed and aren’t managing it well, especially in stressful situations, stress management counseling and stress reduction therapy with a therapist trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other stress therapy methods in Denver can improve your overall health and well-being:
- Therapy can help you identify what’s causing your stress: The first step to managing stress is to identify the things that are causing it in your daily life, also known as your stress triggers. Once you know what your stress triggers are, you can start to develop strategies for coping with them with the help of a stress management therapist.
- Therapy can help you change your thinking patterns: When unable to manage stress well, it absolutely affects the way we think about things negatively impacts how we feel. It can even determine how you react to things. If you have negative thoughts about yourself or your situation, therapy can help you change those thoughts and develop more positive ways of thinking that are more productive and healthier for your stress levels.
- Therapy can help you learn coping skills. Whether you’re an adult, teen, or young adult, there are many different and proven coping skills that can help you manage stress. Working with a trained therapist can help you develop these skills, such as relaxation techniques, time management, and assertiveness training that can fit the context of your life and where you feel stress, whether it’s in your personal life or when you’re seeking a better work-life balance.
- Therapy can provide support: Therapy can provide a safe and supportive space where you can talk about your stress levels, without sharing with a family member or friend. Your therapist can offer you encouragement and guidance as you work toward being in a place where healthy stress management feels natural to you and improves your mental health.
Symptoms of constant stress
Physical symptoms: Headache, muscle tension, stomach problems, difficulty sleeping, high blood pressure, rapid heart rate, chest pain, sweating, dry mouth, fatigue, changes in appetite, chronic fatigue
Emotional symptoms: Anxiety, depression, irritability, anger, frustration, feeling overwhelmed, hopelessness, decision-making challenges,
Behavioral symptoms: Overeating, undereating, smoking, drinking alcohol, using drugs, procrastination, avoiding social situations, difficulty concentrating, making careless mistakes, irritability with others, social withdrawal
Research has shown that therapy provides a holistic approach to treating your stress to improve your mental health. By working with a stress therapist for stress management in Denver, Colorado, you can learn to manage and even move on from these symptoms.
Statistics about stress
Stress can have very real effects and consequences when it’s not managed well. Here are some unique statistics about stress and chronic stress that apply not only in Denver, Colorado, but everywhere:
- Work stress is the leading cause of absence at jobs. When a team’s stress level is high, it can affect how you feel about work.
- Stress costs the United States economy roughly $300 billion in lost productivity each year. Many people struggle to find work-life balance, and this negatively impacts people and the entire economy!
- Stress can lower someone’s lifespan by up to 10 years. Learning how to manage stress can improve your physical and mental health, literally adding years to your life.
- Stress increases people’s risk of illness and health issues, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, obesity, and diabetes. Effective stress management skills and stress therapy can make you a healthier person.
- Without effective stress management, constant stress can lead to depression, anxiety, feeling hopeless, and trouble sleeping.
Ways to reduce stress without therapy
If you’re not ready to start stress management counseling in Denver, Colorado, there are multiple ways that you can try to cope with chronic stress. You can make lifestyle changes that directly improve your stress management abilities and mental health:
- Get regular exercise: This can release endorphins, which have mood-boosting effects.
- Eat a healthy diet: Nutritious foods can help you feel better physically and mentally.
- Get enough sleep: When you’re well-rested and sleeping well, you’re better able to cope with stress and improve your emotional regulation abilities.
- Avoid caffeine and alcohol: These substances can worsen stress symptoms over time.
- Spend time with loved ones: Social support from family and friends and being able to laugh can be important for managing stress and regulating your stress levels.
- Learn relaxation techniques: There are many different relaxation techniques that can help reduce stress, such as deep breathing, meditation, and yoga, many of these you can do with the help of an app in minutes per day.
Managing stress is an important part of maintaining your overall health and well-being, and starting stress management counseling and therapy can help you get to a better, healthier place faster with more lasting effects.
Contact our therapists in Douglas County, Greenwood Village, or Denver, Colorado for an appointment today.
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Meet our therapists
My Denver Therapy is one of the largest woman-owned therapy private practices in Colorado with many of the best, most requested mental health therapists in the Denver Metro area.
As a therapist-owned practice with decades of combined experience, we care about seeing our clients heal, grow, and thrive. We’re one of the only therapy practices in Colorado with licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, social workers, and psychiatric nurse practitioners who actively see new clients. Whether you’re an adult, teen, young adult, couple, or family, our inclusive therapist team is built to specialize in you.
Our practice started with one therapist in a shared office suite, but we’ve grown to help thousands of people in Colorado by providing in-person therapy at our conveniently located Denver Metro area counseling offices in Denver, Greenwood Village, and Lone Tree, plus online therapy for clients throughout Colorado. Because of the way our team works, our therapists also provide consultation for other therapists and private practices in the Denver Metro area.
Our inclusive therapists provide some of the most innovative, effective, and in-demand forms of therapy available today, including EMDR, Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, CBT, and IFS. We also have more therapists trained in Ketamine-assisted therapy, EMDR, and more teen therapists and young adult counselors than nearly every other private practice in Denver.
We know that clients want to find the best therapists in Denver, so our team includes therapists with different backgrounds, specialities, and experiences to help you find the right fit. We’ll match you with one of our therapists who is the best for your goals, location, budget, and schedule to help you get started quickly.
We’re out of network for insurance, Tricare, and are unable to take Medicaid, but most of our therapists’ rates are lower than the local and national averages for therapy.
All of our therapists take a client-focused approach to counseling and approach each session with a commitment to your progress and growth.
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