Stress, PTSD and Anxiety Therapists in Toronto, ON.

When your anxiety and stress interfere with your daily life, it is time to reach out and courageously ask for help. Together we will work on recognizing the reason you feel as you do, your triggers, and ways to change your response to them. We will adopt some stress-management techniques and look at possible lifestyle changes. Some of the approaches and treatments we can use include cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and Interpersonal therapy (IPT)

Everyone feels anxiety at some point in their lives but when it starts to interfere with your life, counseling can help. Although anxiety can feel debilitating, it is treatable. People with anxiety don’t always share the same symptoms, they vary from person to person. Therapy will help you to reclaim your life and function in a chronically stressful world.

While anxiety and stress in small amounts can be a helpful source of information, too much can become overwhelming and even interfere with our daily lives. Therapy can be a space to explore the impacts of anxiety and how it may have become engrained into your self-narrative. You and I can work together to co-create coping strategies that are unique to your specific situation. Contact me to book a free consultation so we can decide together if we would be a good fit.

Everyone feels anxiety at some point in their lives but when it starts to interfere with your life, counseling can help. Although anxiety can feel debilitating, it is treatable. People with anxiety don’t always share the same symptoms, they vary from person to person. Therapy will help you to reclaim your life and function in a chronically stressful world.

Rushing through life, panicked about all that needs to get done and never feeling enough? Stress and Anxiety steal the joy of life and life feels like being on the perpetual spin cycle. To your mind, anxiety and stress feel like genuine threats to your survival. You can spend days, months, years even in a constant state of stress. Stress will shift your body and mind into the fight or flight and you'll find yourself highly reactive and struggle to think through your life and claim your empowerment. Let us help! We will work with you to help calm your mind, set boundaries and shift from reactivity to responsiveness so you choose how you want to respond to life and live on your terms.

I keep up to date with the latest and most effective treatments for anxiety and stress. As well as having an excellent handle on these practical strategies, both permissive and provocative, from a variety of experts in the field, I offer a more in-depth look at the underlying causes to access more permanent healing and management of symptoms. Anxiety and stress is probably the most common problem that I find amongst my clients.

Everyone feels anxiety at some point in their lives but when it starts to interfere with your life, counseling can help. Although anxiety can feel debilitating, it is treatable. People with anxiety don’t always share the same symptoms, they vary from person to person. Therapy will help you to reclaim your life and function in a chronically stressful world.

Anxiety is a normal emotion. It’s your brain’s way of reacting to stress and alerting you of potential danger ahead. However many suffer from too much anxiety living in flight/flight affecting the nervous system in unhealthy ways. Working w old trauma and learning new ways of being in the here and now can lessen anxiety and stress. There are many tools that are helpful.

In many cases, an integrative approach of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and psychotherapy is used to help you manage stress and anxiety. Cognitive-behavioural therapy aims to help you change your emotional response and behaviour by changing your thoughts. If our thoughts happen so quickly and automatically, how can we change a stress response that is perpetuated by such challenging or negative thoughts? Using cognitive-behavioural strategies, we can slow down the thought process by creating a heightened awareness of them. As we observe them, we can make significant changes in our automatic thoughts, and subsequently, change our emotional response and the way we respond as a result.

Anxiety and stress cause significant conflict within a couples relationship. Often times it may induce feelings of anger, resentment, or perhaps helplessness and hurt. We can feel anxiety and stress within our relationship, or perhaps we feel like its "our" problem, or "their" problem. Here again we see the benefit of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. You do not need to go through this alone. There is a way forward if you are both willing to engage.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been proven by research to work for anxiety & stress. CBT is goal-oriented and focused on the present. It begins with learning about anxiety & stress related challenges and mapping out how it affects you. You will then learn and practice new skills and techniques, such as problem solving, time management, mindfulness meditation, and balanced thinking to help you make adjustments in your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. You will also learn how you can utilize your new skills to deal with problems/challenges in the future.

I am an expert in working with anxiety and stress-related concerns. I practice from a mindfulness-based approach, specifically drawing upon MBCT. This gentle approach emphasizes the health benefits associated with cultivating deeper awareness in the present moment through breathing, relaxation, and meditative exercises. I also utilize CBT, neurophysiological research, and Kundalini yoga to offer clients effective stress management skills. I additionally offer information to teach clients the physiological aspects of the stress response to increase their understanding and ability to self-regulate such processes so they see lasting change in their lives.

I offer a safe, nonj-judgemental environment to to my clients so we may explore what is troubling them internally and externally. I offer them the opportunity to express their fears and anxieties and help to strengthen their emotional responses to them. It helps them to deal with their daily problems and re-take charge of their life. I use an integrated approach incorporating techniques from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy to effect positive changes for my clients. Many report improvements within a short period of time, indicating feeling more energy, work productivity, better relationships, and better overall happiness.

While most treatment approaches for anxiety and stress are effective on the surface, they don’t treat the real problem. Mantras, deep breathing, and rational dialogues about your fear being irrational rarely work---for most people don’t believe it or you! Imagine if you can trick the brain into changing without you telling your conscious mind that you are changing it? Problem with anxiety and stress is that the brain in this state knows you want to change it and it resists. Contact Kevin@kevinfleminphd.com for the ultimate stress and anxiety solution that will literally change your brain's autonomic nervous system patterns while you sit on your butt. 877-606-6161.

People often come to see me for psychotherapy in my downtown Toronto practice when they find that they are struggling with anxiety-related problems, such as panic disorder, social phobia, anxiety disorders, and the tendency to ruminate excessively. Psychotherapy helps individuals cope better with stress through the use of relaxation methods, and techniques to help regulate excessive anxiety.

Anxiety and stress is not something that you have to just live with. It is a result of past or current life issues or upsets that is causing your thoughts and bodily reactions to work in a certain way. We will work to identify the causes of your anxiety and stress. We will create practical action plans that will help you to take action and control. We will work with your thoughts to uncover what thoughts are helping or hindering you to be relaxed. You will also learn ways to manage the physical symptoms of anxiety and stress.

Anxiety usually signifies perception of a threat. When anxious, we become aware of an external or internal threat. An external threat would be a situation that is perceived as dangerous (a negative performance evaluation) or an internal threat such as becoming aware of a negative thought or feeling (i.e. I'm ashamed for being a failure). Some degree of anxiety is normal under stress, however if you feel crippled and overwhelmed by it, you might wish to consider psychotherapy to learn effective strategies (Mindfulness, EMDR) ) to contain your anxiety. Therapy can help you understand causes of your anxiety and learn how to respond to anxiety-provoking situations with greater confidence.

Anxiety and stress can steal your enthusiasm, sabotage your confidence, jeopardize your well being and have a negative impact on your body. Working together we can find ways to manage your anxiety and get your stress under control. We will look at what is the root cause of your stress, explore ways to reduce your stress and manage your anxiety. Finding a balance is the ultimate goal.

Our relationship to anxiety and stress is often complicated. While small doses of anxiety and stress can be motivating, high levels of stress and anxiety can feel overwhelming and debilitating. Understanding our experience of anxiety and stress can help us build a different relationship to these emotions. Exploring how we experience anxiety and stress and understanding what they are trying to tell us can help us shed the emotional burdens holding us back from building the life that we want. Schedule a free consultation with me to see if we are a good fit.

Integration of talk therapy with holistic body centred modalities: Giving space for the client to explore and express feelings, own awareness’s, transform thoughts, grieve, vent, and neutralize guilt, anger and fear. New understandings and thus new neural pathways begin to form. Somatic focusing: A profound process of accessing the deep subconscious through breathe work And Life Coaching, meditation, visualization, Emotional Freedom Technique, New Decision Therapy, Polarity Therapy, Cranosacral, Reiki, forgiveness and acceptance work, supplements for brain chemistry balancing are very effective as well. Also CBT, EFT . The combination is powerful.

Anxiety and stress is experienced at various levels and it is often influenced by our interpretations of our experience. The story we tell ourselves about the anxiety and stress in our lives matters. Have you told yourself, "Once this anticipated event is over with, then I'll be happy again,"? Perhaps you have found yourself caught in a 'What if' spiral. Anxiety is a human issue. It becomes problematic when it starts impacting your quality of life, preventing you from engaging in activities that matter to you, and leads to possible physical health concerns. My aim is to help you develop strategies to reduce the impact that anxiety and stress have on you when it arises.

😓 😬 We live in a world where we can express our anxiety and stress through symbols. However, the underlying feelings remain the same and can get worse. MPM Counselling offers individuals the tools to influence their mood. Adopting a more balanced way of thinking and feeling, takes practice. Let's work together to achieve the results you want. People will stop and take notice, of your improved mood and functioning. 😌

Everyone feels anxiety at some point in their lives but when it starts to interfere with your life, counseling can help. Although anxiety can feel debilitating, it is treatable. People with anxiety don’t always share the same symptoms, they vary from person to person. Therapy will help you to reclaim your life and function in a chronically stressful world.

Stress in our lives may come from work, school, family, friends, or a host of other things. Unresolved stress can result in an emotional state that causes us to think, analyze, replay, and ruminate which leads to anxiety, loss of sleep, and more stress. If left unaddressed this can manifest itself in physical ways including nutritional deficiency, deterioration of the immune system, etc. I work with people to understand the root cause of anxiety and stress and to heal it. Ultimately healing can come from creating understanding through talk therapy, or from learning to quiet the mind using mindfulness mediation techniques, or both.

Since mid-2012 virtually every person who’s come to me has done so suffering from anxiety and often panic attacks. This can be the main focus or be part of the issue that is. Is anxiety interfering with your ability to thrive in your career or perhaps your relationships? Are you frustrated because you don’t know why your life is being so limited by this uncomfortable feeling? Do you feel isolated in your anxiety and are closing yourself off from others? I’ve developed the Ames Program to help you heal and develop a life of meaning and happiness. Come and lets talk about it and see if I can help you.