BEING AND BECOMING COUNSELLING AND WELLNESS SERVICES

Stress Management & Burnout Therapy

Compassionate support to help you effectively navigate stressors and find renewed energy for life’s demands.

Therapy for stress and burnout can help you:

REDUCE STRESS LEVELS

IMPROVE WORK-LIFE BALANCE

INCREASE YOUR ENERGY

When the demands on you become too much.

Exhaustion, lack of motivation and heaviness are hallmarks of burnout. Burnout isn’t something that happens overnight; it’s the result of an accumulation of stress, responsibilities and demands that can leave you feeling stretched thin and depleted. You may feel like you just can’t continue to do what you’ve been doing.

Therapy can help you find balance and renewal.

Your mental health matters.

Therapy for Stress and Burnout May Help When You Are:

  • Chronically mentally and/or physically exhausted

  • Becoming increasingly negative, cynical or detached

  • Not sleeping well — you may have difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or don’t feel rested upon waking

  • Having difficulty focusing, completing tasks, or performing at your usual level

  • Dreading work or other responsibilities

  • Wrestling with perfectionism or people pleasing

  • Experiencing physical symptoms such as chronic fatigue, upset stomach, headaches or muscle tension

STRESS MANAGEMENT & BURNOUT THERAPY IN BURNABY

What is Therapy for Stress and Burnout and How Does it Work?

Stress is your body’s response to stressors and is an inescapable part of being alive. Stress affects everyone, whether you’re dealing with a demanding job, navigating personal challenges, or caring for loved ones.

Burnout is emotional and physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated stress. Burnout is often the result of demands at work, but can also arise in response to challenges in other areas of your life such as parenting, relationships, or caretaking.

Whether you’re stuck in a cycle of exhaustion or facing significant life transitions, counselling for stress and burnout provides a safe space to explore the stressors in your life, learn effective coping strategies, and receive support in making changes in your life so that you can rebuild a sense of balance and resilience.

You deserve to live a life of balance, filled with joy and vitality. If stress and burnout are holding you back from living the life you want, we are here to help you.

Modalities offered for Stress and Burnout Therapy

  • CBT is an effective treatment for burnout. It focuses on helping individuals address faulty or unhelpful ways of thinking and behaving. It also involves skills training and problem solving.

  • MBCT combines traditional cognitive therapy with mindfulness strategies. MBCT increases self-awareness, ability to effectively manage emotions and deal with unhelpful thoughts and increase resilience. MBCT teaches stress-reduction techniques and helps individuals learn to work with their thoughts more effectively.

  • IFS therapy maintains that everyone has different parts (e.g., an inner critic, a perfectionist part, a procrastinator part) as well as a Self. Some parts carry trauma or painful emotions and other parts try to protect these wounded parts. Protector parts can get stuck in extreme roles that have adverse consequences. IFS aims to heal parts from the traumas they have experienced or the burdens they carry so that the system can come into balance and the individual can be more Self-led. With your therapist's guidance, you'll build a more caring and compassionate relationship to chronically stressed-out parts and respond more effectively to whatever storms come your way.

  • Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) may be well-suited for those who are high in self-criticism. CFT emphasizes the cultivation of self-compassion and compassion for others to help counteract self-criticism and shame, and promote healing and well-being.

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a mindfulness-based behavioural therapy that combines acceptance and mindfulness techniques with commitment and behaviour change strategies. Instead of trying to change your thoughts, ACT involves accepting the full range of your thoughts and emotions and teaches you new ways to respond to distressing thoughts and emotions. ACT also focuses on helping you identifying your personal values and committing to taking steps to incorporate changes that align with your values and lead to positive change.

What you can expect out of Therapy for Stress and Burnout

Armed with new tools and insights, you will feel empowered to take action to decrease or address the stressors in your life and manage stress effectively . In time you may notice that you have:

  • Increased energy, motivation and capacity

  • Increased ability and desire to be engaged in your life

  • Developed better coping strategies and problem-solving skills

  • Increased resilience and capacity to handle stressors

  • Improved relationships

  • Increased awareness of your own needs and limits

  • Improved ability to set boundaries or limits and say no

  • Greater willingness to ask for, or accept help

  • Increased ability to rest and take care of yourself

Therapists Offering Stress Management & Burnout Therapy

  • Dr. Jan Klimas

    RCC & Applicant for Registration as a Psychologist

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  • Dr. Margaret Brennan

    Registered Psychologist

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