As we know stress is one of the inevitable parts of our lives, and sometimes it helps us to deal with a major or minor challenge or crisis situation. But if it remains unaddressed for a long time, it can make it difficult to manage day-to-day tasks for us. Prolonged stress causes critical to stress that turns into major distress and negatively impacts our minds and body.

 

Some physical tiredness like lack of energy, exhaustion, and weakness can be handled by giving yourself a break and rest while mental exhaustion looks like feeling helplessness, hopelessness, lack of motivation, irritability, and anxiety is hard to overcome.

How online Online Counseling or Therapy helps to deal with stress?

Online Counseling for stress control allows you to understand effective skills to keep your stress levels manageable with different stress management techniques. Just like traditional counseling, an online counselor delivers online counseling by creating a safe, non-judgmental, confidential space to make you feel comfortable in sharing and exploring your issues in-depth and a free environment, only the mode to connect changes. Some useful ways of stress management often used in therapy for stress are mentioned below:

Relaxation techniques - 

 Biofeedback/Creating awareness of physiological responses:

Biofeedback/Creating awareness of physiological responses

• Observing breathing rate, heart rates
• Learning techniques to manage physical symptoms like breathing rate, heart rates
• Transferring the learning to real-life situations

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy generally helps you to learn different ways of looking at a situation, regain your sense of control, enhance confidence and self-efficacy, and manage severe psychological and physiological symptoms to enable you to effectively deal with stressful situations.

Life Skills

Life Skills

 

Apart from some direct benefits counseling also allows you to learn some life skills like positive thinking, time management, and maintaining healthy relations with people around you, which help you a long way in meeting personal and professional goals and also overcoming various challenges, and contribute towards better mental health.

 

Build Resilience- 

Build Resilience

 

Build a support network, Try to engage in self-care activities and physical activities, maintain a healthy lifestyle, and take well-balanced meals, as these little lifestyle changes help you act as a buffer against stress.

 

BetterLYF Wellness, an online mental health therapy platform allows you to choose from various modes of online therapy like chat, call, and video that suit you the best.