Can Online Therapy Help with Stress? by BetterLYF
Stress is an unavoidable part of our lives, yet if remains unaddressed for a long time, it can make it difficult to managing day-to-day tasks. Prolonged acute stress may turn into distress which negatively impacts our mind and body.
Physical exhaustion seems like lack of energy, fatigue, and weakness while mental exhaustion looks like feeling helplessness, hopelessness, lack of motivation, irritability, and anxiety.
How online therapy helps to deal with stress?
Therapy and counselling for stress management help you by learning effective techniques to keep your stress levels manageable with different stress management techniques. Just like the traditional counselling, an online therapist begins e-therapy 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. Some helpful ways of stress management often used in therapy and counselling for stress are mentioned below:
Relaxation techniques Using relaxation techniques to lower stress symptoms Using deep breathing exercises accompanied by muscle relaxation for an overall calming effect. Practicing meditation to enable the mind and body unison.
Biofeedback/Creating awareness of physiological responses Observing breathing rate, heart rates Learning techniques to manage Transferring the learning’s to real-life situations
Cognitive Behavioral Therpay Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps you to learn different ways of looking at a situation, regain your sense of control, enhance confidence and self-efficacy, manage severe psychological and physiological symptoms to enable you to effectively deal with stressful situations.
Life Skills– Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps you to learn different ways of looking at a situation, regain your sense of control, enhance confidence and self-efficacy, manage severe psychological and physiological symptoms to enable you to effectively deal with stressful situations.
Build ResilienceBuil a support network, engage in self-care activities and physical activities, maintain a healthy lifestyle, take well-balanced meals, as these little lifestyle changes help you act as a buffer against stress.
Betterlyf, an online mental health counselling platform allows you to choose from various modes of online therapy like chat, call, video that suits you the best.