Online Stress therapists in Chorleywood, England ENG, United Kingdom UK
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Birgit Schreiber Dr
Psychologist, PhD and MA in Psychology
We all know it and there are very impactful ways of combatting stress, including a range of interventions which help us, quite quickly, shift the stress levels in our lives, very effectively.
26 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG (Online Only)
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Samantha Coleman
Therapist, MBACP Prof Dip
Stress can affect your body, mind, emotions, sleep, relationships, and ability to cope. You may feel under constant pressure, unable to switch off, emotionally stretched, or as though you are always holding too much. My approach is warm, practical, and psychologically informed. Together, we can explore not only what is causing the stress, but also the deeper patterns, expectations, fears, or pressures that may be keeping it going.
13 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
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Dr Jacob Ellwood
Psychologist, PsychD, Cpsychol
Stress is an increasing problem in our society. I incorporate mindfulness and relaxation techniques to help my clients reduce their stress levels.
14 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
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Liz Frings
Counsellor/Therapist, PG Diploma Person-Centred Psychotherapy. EMDR Accredited
How Therapy Can Help with Stress -
We all experience stress—it's a normal part of life. But when stress becomes chronic or overwhelming, it stops being a motivator and starts taking a serious toll on your mental and physical health. If you're feeling constantly on edge, exhausted, or like you're barely keeping your head above water, therapy can help you find your way back to balance.
What Chronic Stress Looks Like
Stress isn't just feeling busy or having a lot on your plate. Chronic stress can show up as:
Constant worry or racing thoughts
Difficulty sleeping or always feeling tired
Physical symptoms like headaches, muscle tension, or stomach issues
Irritability or mood swings
Difficulty concentrating or making decisions
Feeling overwhelmed by everyday tasks
Loss of enjoyment in things you used to love
Using unhealthy coping mechanisms (overworking, overeating, drinking, withdrawing)
When stress becomes your baseline, it's easy to forget what calm actually feels like.
How Therapy Helps
Understanding Your Stress Triggers
Therapy helps you identify what's actually driving your stress. Sometimes it's obvious—work deadlines, financial pressure, relationship problems. Other times, stress comes from deeper sources like perfectionism, fear of failure, unresolved trauma, or difficulty saying no. Understanding the root causes is the first step toward managing them.
Learning Practical Coping Skills
Your therapist can teach you concrete techniques for managing stress in the moment, such as:
Breathing exercises and grounding techniques
Progressive muscle relaxation
Mindfulness and meditation practices
Time management and prioritization strategies
Healthy ways to decompress and recharge
These aren't just abstract ideas—they're tools you can use right away when stress starts building.
Challenging Unhelpful Thought Patterns
Stress often comes with distorted thinking: catastrophizing ("everything's going to fall apart"), all-or-nothing thinking ("I have to be perfect or I'm a failure"), or mind-reading ("everyone thinks I'm incompetent"). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps you recognize these patterns and develop more balanced, realistic perspectives that reduce stress.
Setting Boundaries and Saying No
Many people experience chronic stress because they've taken on too much—at work, in relationships, or with family obligations. Therapy helps you examine why you struggle to set limits, practice saying no without guilt, and establish boundaries that protect your wellbeing.
Processing Underlying Issues
Sometimes stress is a symptom of deeper issues—unresolved trauma, unprocessed grief, relationship problems, or major life transitions. Therapy provides space to address these underlying concerns, which can significantly reduce your overall stress levels.
Breaking the Stress Cycle
Stress often creates a vicious cycle: you're stressed, so you sleep poorly, which makes you more irritable, which strains your relationships, which increases your stress. Therapy helps you identify where you can interrupt this cycle and develop healthier patterns.
15 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
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Beth Jackson Counselling and Coaching
Counsellor/Therapist, BA (hons), Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
Dealing with stress can feel overwhelming, terrifying and isolating. Often we feel out of control and like everything is spiralling. Working together in a safe non-judgemental space we can identify what is causing the stress and the effect it is having on you. We can find strategies that work for you as well as looking for root causes and ways to set boundaries to change your situation quickly.
7 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
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Julie Jenner
Counsellor/Therapist, BA(Hons), NCS Senior Accredited
Stress comes in so many forms and once it kicks off, near everything can then become stressful. We can assume that we are generally stressed, that everything is going wrong and that it is just how life is. Once you start breaking down what is causing you stress you might find that not all of it is yours, and not all of it is necessary. We juggle so much in life, then we take on other people's worries, add everyday stuff going on in the world, and before you know it you are drowning in it. Counselling can help you break it down, work out how much of it is not needed, and can offer strategies for when life is feeling big or heavy. You might not even be able to imagine what that looks like right now. You might not even believe it is possible. If this is the case, what have you got to lose by trying? You just might surprise yourself with what you can achieve.
10 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG (Online Only)
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Dr Aneliya Gonsard
Psychologist, DClinPscy, MSc, BA
Professional burnout, post-traumatic stress, interpersonal conflict - these are different examples of stressful experiences that can be of chronic and incredibly taxing nature. Some people lack a robust capacity to know their own limits and set boundaries; others find themselves in the midst of stressful life events (e.g. sudden illness of self or a loved one; loss of income and basic security; being subjected to discrimination, or any other form of maltreatment), and it becomes really hard to adapt and cope emotionally.
I offer a confidential space where we can think together about what has and is happening to you, how you experience it and what hinders you managing stress more sustainable way.
16 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
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Jimi Katsis
Registered Psychotherapist, MA psych, Dip SW
Everyone talks about stress like it's normal. "Just stressed" becomes the default answer when someone asks how you are. But when stress becomes your baseline—when your body never gets to rest, when you're constantly in fight-or-flight, when you can't remember the last time you felt calm—that's not normal. That's your nervous system stuck in survival mode.
You might notice it as tension headaches, trouble sleeping, irritability, or just feeling wired all the time. Your body's telling you it can't keep running at this pace, but you don't know how to slow down. Maybe you've tried meditation apps or breathing exercises, and they help for five minutes, then you're right back to it.
The problem isn't that you're bad at managing stress. The problem is understanding why your system stays activated even when there's no real threat. What are you protecting against? What feels dangerous about letting your guard down?
We work to understand what's keeping your nervous system on high alert, then help it learn that it's safe to rest. Not through more techniques to manage stress better, but by addressing why you're stuck in stress mode in the first place.
27 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG (Online Only)
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James Hitchen - I Am James Therapy & Coaching
Therapist, Psychotherapeutic counselling (level 5), MBACP, AdV member Addiction Professionals, MNCPS accred. National Centre For Eating Disorders
I am member of the International Stress Management Association and the Federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners. I have a holistic view of mental health and wellbeing helping clients to look after their mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health to thrive in life. I work collaboratively with my clients using both counselling and coaching skills to help promote positive, lasting change. I offer a range of services from 1:1 and group counselling/coaching sessions working with clients who are struggling with life.
9 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
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Aleksandra Pamphlett - Cert. Coach & Psychologist
Life Coach, MAC, MSc, BSc Hons,
In the hustle of everyday life, stress can take a toll on your well-being. I'm here to help you regain balance and navigate life's challenges with resilience. Together, we'll explore personalized strategies to identify stressors, build coping mechanisms, and foster a mindset that promotes a healthier lifestyle. Whether you're juggling work pressures, personal responsibilities, or facing major life transitions, our collaborative journey is tailored to empower you.
12 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG (Online Only)
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Nicole Rolls
Counsellor/Therapist, PG Dip, MA, BACP Accred, EMDR Accred, 20 years experience as a Therapist
Stress can lead to feeling disempowered and a sense of losing one' s autonomy.
It will be important to understand what are the factors of stress and to work through what is happening for you.
Are you finding hard to set boundaries? are you caught up in a situation that you don't feel you can escape? We will explore this and together find a way forward that would bring you greater satisfaction and happiness.
21 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
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Well on the Way
Therapist, Reichian Therapy (Character Analysis & Bodywork), Ecotherpay, Family Constellations, Touch for Health Kinesioogy, Natural Healing, Accredited facilitator of the Work that Reconnects
I assume Climate Anxiety is universally present in the collective unconscious. Joanna Macy has written: "Until the late twentieth century, every generation throughout history lived with the tacit certainty that there would be generations to follow. Each assumed, without questioning, that its children and children's children would walk the same Earth, under the same sky. Hardships, failures, and personal death were encompassed in that vaster assurance of continuity. That certainty is now lost to us, whatever our politics. That loss, unmeasured and immeasurable, is the pivotal psychological reality of our time."
44 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
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Szilvia Kovacs
Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist, Hypnotherapist
We all have a certain amount of stress in our lives, and we can usually cope with it. The problem starts when the pressure is unmanageable via the known coping mechanisms, and we may feel helpless, grow anxious and have all sorts of psychosomatic symptoms. There are many tools to build resilience and set a new lifestyle for your harmony to prevent this chaotic state or recover from any stress-related issues. The regular practice of mindfulness, meditation or relaxation is the foundation of my therapy work.
21 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG (Online Only)
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Jayne LESLEY Allen
Therapist, MIBWRT(AC and Coach, TFT DX, NLP Practioner and Coach, Hypnotherapist
Chronic stress can affect not only your mind but also your body—impacting sleep, focus, mood, and long-term health. Together, we’ll explore what’s driving your stress and create strategies to bring balance back into your life. Using neuroscience-based coaching, BWRT®, and therapeutic tools, I help you shift unhelpful thought patterns and calm the body’s stress response. I also integrate HeartMath® techniques, which use heart–brain coherence to regulate emotions, improve resilience, and restore a sense of calm. Alongside mindfulness and energy-based practices, this approach supports both your nervous system
16 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
Stress
Psykhe Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, MACP
Each therapist has their own specialties, and we focus on connecting you with the clinician whose experience best fits your needs. Therapy may involve developing coping strategies, processing past experiences and childhood patterns, and cultivating greater self-compassion and emotional well-being.
8 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG (Online Only)
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John Castleford
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, MIAEB, FRAI
Anxiety, Stress and Worry affects us all. We evolved to deal with occasional stressful threats--hence our "fight or flight" response. We did not evolve to deal with the increasing persistence and prevalence of stressful situations -- at home, in our communities, and workplaces. Anxiety about living with or after cancer invariably involves perceptions about what we imagine may happen. But the mind often has difficulty differentiating between what is real and what our imagination has created.
Fortunately there is a profusion of strategies for minimising stress and the effects of worry and anxiety, and my approaches involve building self-esteem up to previous levels, mindful mediation to enable you to take a step back from worrisome thoughts, rather than become subsumed by them, and helping you reorient locus of control so you are more in control of yourself, rather than delegating responsibility to external influences.
18 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
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Dr Paul Garden
Psychologist, Doctorate in Psychology, DPsych, MSc with Distinction, BSc First Class Honours.
Stress pervades most lives, and at times it can become overwhelming. Learning to understand why stress impacts you in the particular way it does, can lead to welcome freedom from its tendency to limit and interfere with your life.
11 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
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Nicola Woods
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, UKCP, EMDR
Stress manifests in many forms, either physically or emotionally, and can be detrimental to both our mental and physical health. We will work together to bring awareness to what is causing stress, looking at both internal factors – such as patterns of thought and behaviours – and external factors – such as work and financial. We will also develop strategies to help reduce stress and anxiety on a day-to-day basis.
9 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG (Online Only)
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Mandy Randall-Gavin MBACP, UKATA
Counsellor/Therapist, BA Hons, Dip TA Prac: UKATA
Stress management activities can greatly assist clients dealing with Stress issues such as anxiety, depression, and persistent stress. They can also benefit those experiencing anger, fear, changes in appetite or energy levels, difficulty concentrating, sleep issues, increased substance use, and physical symptoms like headaches or stomach pain. Together we'll explore what is really going on for you to better understand your triggers and move forward in your life with less stress.
14 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
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Chris Chicoteau
Counsellor/Therapist, Master of Counselling, IFS Level 2
Understand the reasons underlying the stress and develop ways to address it.
16 Years Experience
Online in Chorleywood, ENG
Stress therapists in Chorleywood, England, United Kingdom Statistics
Stress therapists in Chorleywood, England, United Kingdom average 14 years of experience and charge around ¤112 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Stress (100%), Anxiety or Fears (88%), and Self Esteem (86%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
¤112
Gender ID
| 72% |
Female |
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| 26% |
Male |
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| 1% |
Non-Binary |
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| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 63% |
In Person and Online |
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| 37% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Stress |
| 88% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 86% | Self Esteem |
| 81% | Depression |
| 67% | Social Anxiety |
| 66% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 60% | Loss or Grief |