Stress Management Skills For Therapists, Life Coaches.
Why choosing the right Stress Management Skills for your clients and students is so important. Why the foundation of any effective stress management approach is having more than a few of the right stress management skills and stress resilience tools. Why every therapist and coach should have a stress management toolkit.
Choosing The Right Stress Management Skills And Training
How to choose the right stress management skills for your therapy practice or life coaching programs.
When choosing any therapist training or coaching training. It is vital to identify what your clients will find most valuable, safe and effective. So it is important to choose the right stress management skills you require for the type of clients you will be working with and the specific issues you will be supporting them with.
As a stress management trainer, therapist and consultant, who is also a trained healer, counsellor, coach and meditation teacher. Who has supported thousands of students and clients, worked in the education, health and charity sector. I have witnessed time and time again the importance of having a wide range of safe and effective stress management skills, stress resilience techniques and approaches.
Why I Chose To Become A Stress Management Teacher And Trainer
One of the main reasons I wanted to teach stress management strategies not just practice healing and holistic therapies that can be a supportive aid in helping others reduce their stress.
Was seeing personally a lot of co-dependency challenges coming from the healing and holistic industry. Due to the very nature of the healer and therapist role in the modern world.
I wanted to teach others how to manage their own stress and take back their own power instead of having to rely on any healer or therapist to do it for them.
Different Types Of Stress Management Skills And Tools
The reality is there are so many different stress management approaches and stress resilience tools how do you know what is the most effective and useful for your practice.
I personally have studied and taught so many different forms of
- Stress-resilience and Stress Management Tools
- Different styles of Meditation, Mindfulness, and Relaxation therapy techniques
- Assertiveness Skills, Healthy Boundaries, Time Management
- Creative And Guided Visualisation
- NLP and CBT Approaches
- Acupressure, Energy Healing, and Spiritual Healing Approaches
- Spiritual Development Skills and Quantum Mind Approaches
Today we have so many choices, some I have found to be most suitable for Stress at an Organisation Level, and stress in the workplace while others are more suitable for a more personal level. I believe every client is unique in their needs and it is one of the reasons we teach a wide range of stress skills at Stress Coach Training for coaches, therapists, healers, and organizations. Some techniques are great for kids and children, while other stress management techniques are great for those with extremely busy lifestyles, other stress tools are particularly useful for certain health conditions and pain management. That is why my Accredited Stress Management Training includes over 25 stress management tools and techniques.
History Of Different Stress Management Approaches
One of the main difference’s that I noticed between the self-development industry and the more spiritual or holistic approach to managing anxiety and stress in the 80s and early 90s. Was not just the different schools of thought on how to manage stress and increase stress resilience. But in some ways the major motives behind different forms of stress management skills.
A lot of stress management skills that are taught today came out of the personal development and corporate industry from the 90s when there was a large push to be all you can be. While a lot of holistic therapies that are used as a support to managing stress evolved from a lot of traditional medicine and well-being practices from thousands of years.
While many meditation and mindfulness approaches to stress management evolved from more cultural and spiritual practices.
Stress Management Skills In The 80s
One of the main differences I noticed when I started studying stress management in the 80s and 90s was although there were many different schools of thought in stress management. There were 4 main areas where many stress management skills were coming from
Management and Personal Development Industry
Deeply embedded in the decade of the yuppie where there was a huge drive towards capitalism and materialism. An explosion in the self-help industry started to take off in the 70s, especially in the USA. We just need to look at the work of Tony Robbins in the ’80s whose main focus was then to highly flying executives or those in business and sales. At this time there was a huge focus on productivity and performance so things like effective time management for stress in the workplace were becoming increasingly popular.
Holistic Wellbeing Industry
In 7o’s the holistic industry started to become more recognised in the USA after a variety of different forms of holistic well-being were becoming popular Yoga had slowly become increasingly popular since its first introduction in the 50s. But some suggest it was the National Conference On Holistic Health in California in 1975 that helped push forward a variety of modalities from CBT, Psychoanalysis, Hypnotherapy, and Traditional Medicine into the 80s and 90s.
Meditation and Mindfulness
Although meditation and mindfulness have been around for thousands of years, meditation and mindfulness didn’t start becoming popular in the West until people like Benson known for his book – Relaxation Response (1975) started to explore the benefits of meditation on mental and physiological outcomes.
And John Kabat Zinn in the 70’s introduced to the West his own approach to mindfulness – Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
Eileen Burns is owner of Stress Coach Training a more awakened approach to Stress Management and Soul Empowerment. If you would like to explore how you can work with Eileen in her one to one coaching or Accredited Stress Management Training Book A Discovery Call.
