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Clinical Hypnotherapy & Life Coaching
Stress Therapy Sheffield
What is Stress Hypnotherapy Sheffield Service?
Chronic Stress is caused by psychological and emotional pressured we’ve suffered over a prolonged period, such as from work, financial worries, or relationship difficulties
Modern life is a busy one, where we are always on the go dashing around from one thing to the next, trying to juggling too many plates at once.
And we can juggle many plates, but just one more and they all come crashing down as we’ve maxed out beyond our capacity to cope and feel like we’ve lost control. And this is where stress therapy comes in.
Stress therapy Sheffield services helps individuals to decompress from stress, reconnect with calm, clarity and focus, to get back on their ‘A’ game and thrive in life once more.
Stress: Cognitive Overload
Chronic stress directly impacts the brain in various ways
Understanding Stress
It is important to understand how our body processes stress. In the simplest terms, stress is basically the “fight or flight” response to a perceived threat. This activates the amygdala, or “fear center” of the brain, and causes a cascade of events.
These include the production of the stress hormone cortisol, an increase in glucose levels, increased heart rate, and an increase in blood flow to the muscles in the arms and legs. After the threat has passed, then the body will eventually return to normal.
In the case of chronic stress, however, the fear center of the brain is constantly activated, meaning that the body is in a constant state of stress. Cortisol levels are also constantly elevated, which can eventually start to cause problems with digestion, sleeping, the immune system and cause anxiety and depression.
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Not only that, but when one part of the brain is constantly engaged other parts of the brain do not have enough energy to carry out their own functions properly. As a result, here are five ways that stress can affect the brain:
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1. Changes the Brains Structure
Our brains are composed of both gray matter and white matter. Gray matter is used for decision-making and problem-solving, while white matter is used to connect regions of the brain and communicate information.
However, during times of chronic stress, the myelin sheaths that make up white matter become overproduced, while less gray matter is produced. When this happens, there can be an imbalance in gray and white matter. In some cases, this results in permanent changes to the brain’s structure.
2. Stress Shrinks the Brain
While the overall volume of our brain tends to remain about the same, it has been found that chronic stress in otherwise healthy individuals can cause areas of the brain associated with emotions, metabolism, and memory to shrink.
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This means that when we are under constant stress we may find it harder to deal with future stress.
3. Stress Kills Brain Cells
It has been suggested by researchers that chronic stress can even kill new neurons in the brain’s hippocampus. The hippocampus is one of only two locations where neurons are produced.
Despite the fact that the formation of new neurons does not seem to be affected, research shows that new neurons produced during periods of stress are more likely to die within a week.
4. Impairs Memory
One effect of chronic stress that researchers have observed is memory impairment. Specifically, it has been noted that people who are stressed tend to be more forgetful and less likely to remember specific information.
The basic idea is that the brain is shunting its resources because it’s in survival mode, not memory mode.
5. More Susceptible to Mental Illness
An imbalance between white and gray matter can also play a role in the development of mental illness.
The theory is that having excess myelin in certain areas of the brain interferes with the timing and balance of communication and negatively alter hippocampal function.
The hippocampus is involved in memory, specifically spatial memory, memory consolidation, and memory transfer.
How does Stress Hypnotherapy Sheffield work?
Stress hypnotherapy, stress talking therapy or stress counselling are all forms of psychotherapy aimed at helping people to have a better relationship with their self.
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Stress hypnotherapy services Sheffield involves me, an accredited psychologist and clinical hypnotherapist, talking to people about their issues and utilising hypnosis in a safe, quiet, and private environment.
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When someone talks through their problems in this kind of setup, they begin to understand themselves better with the help of a trained professional.
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As an Stress therapist, I have the training and expert insight to listen with empathy and unearth your individual challenges affecting how you think and feel. With this expertise we will explore, recognise, and guide you to resolve issues or conflicts affecting the way you think and feel.
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Stress hypnotherapy Sheffield services goes deep and explores various aspects of your life when providing objective guidance towards self understanding and personal growth.
With enhanced calm and emotional intelligence, healing begins. And you can often make changes that improve your daily life and improve your romantic relationships.
"Neil's Self-Awareness and Mindfulness exercises during our therapy sessions helped me make better decisions as a parent and ultimately helped me manage my burnout. My brother is so impressed with how clear my thinking has gotten. I've been able to experience more happiness and fulfillment in my personal life with my wife and kids. I have gotten so much healthier in my body and mind - Emmanuel C"
Alleviate Chronic Stress with Hypnotherapy
If you suffer from burnt out or chronic stress, then its time to change. I can help you through a tailored combination of hypnotherapy and Nero-Linguistic Programming (NLP), which will dramatically reduce your stress load. Together, we will identify the sources of stress in your life and explore how you cognitively perceive and react to these events.
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When you suffer from chronic stress or experience burnout, if feels like everything has become too much, barely coping, and that you’re hanging on by a thread. This is what chronic stress does to your thinking. It makes you feel certain that your stuck in your life situation.
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It devours the pleasure form all those things you used to enjoy, makes you feel emotionally disconnected from loved ones, and makes you see everything through an agitated and frustrated lens. In short, chronic stress is a bacterium that feeds on your emotions and dissolves all your pleasures.
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However, when you really know how the mind and body work to produce and maintain stress, then you can start to breath a sigh of relief again, as optimism returns once more.
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The first very first thing we will do in our session, is make sure that you fully understand why you are feeling this way. It has a lot to do with the way you are processing information cognitively and how this impacts upon the autonomic nervous system, making you feel worn out both mentally and physically.
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Then I will work expediently to help you feel much better with deep breathing and deep relaxation techniques. This is to not only relax the body, but also to relax the mind, as you’ve probably noticed stress can make the mind feel somewhat jumbled and discombobulated, making it difficult to pay attention and learn.
When you leave my clinic after the first session, I would expect you to feel better, unwound, relaxed, and refreshed, than you have in a very long time. But of course, stress doesn’t dissolve away overnight. In the following session, we will work together to:
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bring your nervous system back to a healthy functioning level
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reduce the amount of worrying and catastrophising you are doing
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resolve any negative self-talk and self-criticism you are engaging in
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help balance you thinking so you are no longer thinking in terms of extremes
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as you feel better, gradually introduce well-being tool and skills that will enable you to self-regulate efficiently in the face of any future stressors, protecting you from experiencing chronic stress again
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Burn out and chronic stress, if left untreated can be very dangerous, affecting all aspects of life and can cause heart disease and hypertension, affecting work performance and personal relationships. However, with the right specialist support stress can become manageable, enabling you to live a more balanced, peaceful, relaxed and happy lifestyle.​​
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''Neil tailored the treatment to my needs and used a mixture of techniques which I had not come across before. These sessions worked to help me identify and change my negative thinking patterns, learn new self-management stress skills, and build my self-esteem and confidence. My stress is now minimal, I feel good about being me and I have a much more positive outlook, where my future now looks bright - Richard M.''