stress coaching

Understanding Stress Through Coaching

by John Nolan
15th March 2025

Stress coaching is a targeted form of coaching that helps individuals understand and effectively manage stress in both their personal and professional lives. By working with a stress coach, clients can identify their stress triggers, learn practical stress reduction techniques, develop resilience, and improve their overall well-being and performance. Stress coaching empowers individuals to take control of their stress response and build a more balanced and fulfilling life.

Workplace Benefits of Stress Coaching: Tools and Techniques

by John Nolan
29th January 202515th March 2025

Stress coaching provides a structured approach to addressing workplace stress by incorporating techniques that target how individuals think, feel, and behave when under pressure. By using tools from solution focused therapy, assertiveness training, cognitive reframing, mindfulness, emotional regulation, and stress management, stress coaching helps individuals to reduce stress, improve well-being and enhance workplace productivity. The application of these techniques not only benefits individual employees but also contributes to a more positive and productive work environment for everyone.

Coaching for Stress: A Tailored Approach

by John Nolan
23rd January 202518th February 2025

Effective stress coaching involves a personalised approach that focuses on a client’s strengths, values and goals. This is done by using a range of strategies and techniques chosen to suit the individual’s needs. The most important thing is that any techniques are tested based on their usefulness to the client.

Strategies for Managing Workplace Anxiety2nd April 2025
Coping with anxiety at work involves a multifaceted approach that includes setting healthy boundaries, making adjustments to the work environment, practising mindfulness and cognitive techniques, building assertiveness, and utilising available support. Gradual exposure to anxiety-provoking situations and a focus on problem-solving can also be effective strategies. Ultimately, learning to accept anxious feelings while staying engaged with work tasks and values is crucial for long-term well-being and effective coping with anxiety at work.
Supporting Wellbeing: Coaching for Stress Management at Work1st April 2025
Coaching for stress management at work is a collaborative process focused on helping individuals within a professional context to better understand and handle workplace pressures. It involves techniques like solution-focused questioning, exploring past successes, developing coping skills, and setting boundaries to enhance wellbeing and performance.
Coaching Beyond the Shadows: Embracing a Future-Oriented Path from Depression1st April 2025
Depression coaching centres on empowering individuals to move beyond current difficulties by focusing on their strengths and future aspirations. Key principles include fostering hope, leveraging strengths, setting achievable goals aligned with values, and cultivating acceptance. A future-oriented approach proves particularly effective by shifting focus from problems to possibilities, generating hope and motivation, creating clear goals, breaking rumination cycles, empowering agency, and building resilience. By illuminating a path forward, depression coaching supports individuals in actively creating the fulfilling lives they desire.
Sensory Pathways to Healing: The Rise and Integration of Psychosensory Therapy31st March 2025
Psychosensory therapy, with origins in traditional practices and modern neuroscience, is increasingly effective in mental health by directly influencing neurobiological states through sensory input. Techniques like Havening, EFT, and EMDR target the amygdala and can facilitate the processing of trauma and reduce anxiety. These therapies offer rapid, gentle, and empowering approaches for issues such as panic attacks, phobias, PTSD, chronic pain, and addictions. Psychosensory therapy integrates well with future-oriented modalities like SFBT, coaching, and NLP by quickly reducing distress, fostering self-empowerment, and creating a more receptive state for change and goal achievement.
Embracing Experience: Understanding and Moving Beyond Avoidance30th March 2025
Experiential avoidance, the attempt to evade unwanted inner experiences, plays a significant role in various mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma, leading to restricted lives and intensified distress. Overcoming this pattern involves cultivating awareness, acceptance, willingness, cognitive defusion, present moment contact, value clarification, gradual exposure, and self-compassion, enabling individuals to engage with a full range of experiences and move towards a more fulfilling life.