Online Stress therapists in Lancing, England ENG, United Kingdom UK
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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 Lancing, ENG
Janine & ComposurePsychology Team
Psychologist, Chartered Clinical Psychologist, HCPC & BPS registered, DClinPsy, CSAccred.(AAC), MPhil (cantab)
All of our Clinical Psychologists at ComposurePsychology are highly experienced in helping people of all ages understand, manage and overcome stress and overwhelm (from work, school, health, relationships, parenting and caring responsibilities, unemployed) all of the above at the same time) and stress related fears, nervousness, worry and panic. We draw from evidence based therapies including; CBT, ACT, CFT, SFT, DBT, EMDR, systemic, narrative, psychodynamic and others.
13 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG
Irene Valis
Registered Psychotherapist, PACFA certified Gestalt therapist, Counsellor, Life Coach
Stress can be an overwhelming experience where everything feels urgent, too much or not enough. It can play out in relationships, in home life, workplaces, or even in communities and the collective at large; and can have a significant effect on our mind, body, and health.
Stress is a sign our nervous system is going into survival mode, and support is needed to move into taking action and finding solutions.
To do that, we together take a personalised approach to slowing down, identifying your subjective stressors (people, places, patterns), understanding what's happening for you on a nervous system level in response to stress, and then exploring optimal regulation tools and resources tailored for your specific needs - helping you build more capacity and greater resilience for navigating these areas your life.
5 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG
Gordon Wax BA HONS MBACP
Counsellor/Therapist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
In therapy you will understand that stress is normal and how to cope. We are conditioned to feel successful when booked and busy. The body and mind may disagree.
13 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG
Julie Cochrane - Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) Therapist
Hypnotherapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, RTT-T, Rewind Therapy Practitioner, Integration Coaching
Chronic stress is what happens when the system stays in alert mode long after the original threat has passed. Often the root is not the current workload at all. It is a much older pattern of needing to be on, needing to anticipate, needing to hold everything together. RTT works at that root layer. Once the underlying drivers update, the nervous system can finally come off high alert. Clients often report sleeping better, breathing more easily and feeling more space between themselves and the demands of daily life. The work is online via Zoom and complements any stress management practice you already have in place.
6 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG (Online Only)
Jason Fletcher Hypnotherapy and Coaching
Hypnotherapist, FNCIP SQHP
Stress work focuses on understanding how emotional, mental, and physical pressure build over time. I support people in developing steadier regulation and reducing how overwhelming stress feels. Sessions are calm, structured, and tailored to individual needs.
23 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG
Louise Perry
Registered Psychotherapist, IFS UKCP HCCP BAAT
I work with adults experiencing ongoing stress, including feeling overextended, pressured, or caught in persistent states of alertness and responsibility. Stress often develops as a response to competing demands, long-standing expectations, and internal pressures, rather than as a single problem to be solved.
My work draws on Integrative Art Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS), offering ways to explore how stress is organised internally and what responses it triggers over time. Rather than focusing on stress management techniques, sessions centre on understanding the patterns, beliefs, and roles that keep stress in place. We may work through conversation, creative exploration, or a combination of both, depending on what feels most useful.
8 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG
Tamzin Brain @HypnoChange4U
Counsellor/Therapist, Ad.Dip.CP, DipHyp CS, Dip CP, MNCS (Acc), MHS, Counselling Cert, CACHE3, B.A. Honours Degree PsyCrim
“When I first visited Tamzin for hypnotherapy every day at work was really stressful for me. I felt anxious and on edge most of the time, as if I couldn't get things done fast enough or meet my deadlines no matter how hard I tried! Since the sessions with Tamzin I have found it much easier to put things in perspective, relax and leave things work-related at work when I come home at the end of the day. Her advice and supplementary techniques for dealing with stressful situations when they arise have also been invaluable. Thank you Tamzin!" (Amelia Blackmoore)
15 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG (Online Only)
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 Lancing, ENG (Online Only)
Kylie Feller
Licensed Professional Counsellor, MA, CCC
Stress is a sign your system is working overtime—and it’s asking for support, not more pressure.
When life feels like too much and you’re constantly on edge, it’s often because parts of you are stuck in survival mode. Chronic stress can disconnect you from your body, drain your energy, and leave you feeling like you're just getting through the day. I use Internal Family Systems (IFS) and somatic tools like TRE to help you understand the deeper layers beneath your stress and bring your nervous system back into balance. Together, we’ll create space for calm, clarity, and resilience—so you can move through life with more ease and intention.
10 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG (Online Only)
MindOverHealing Therapies
Hypnotherapist, CHt
In today's fast-paced world, stress has become an almost ubiquitous part of daily life. While some stress can be beneficial, motivating individuals to meet deadlines or perform at their best, chronic stress can have detrimental effects on both mental and physical health. Hypnotherapy, a therapeutic practice that utilizes the power of suggestion and visualization, offers a unique and effective method for managing stress. By addressing the underlying psychological triggers of stress and promoting relaxation and positive thinking, hypnotherapy can help individuals achieve a more balanced and harmonious state of mind.
3 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG (Online Only)
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 Lancing, ENG
Eric C Bettelheim
Registered Psychotherapist, PhD, MSc., J.D., M.A. A.B. Member: BACP, BPC.
Stress is a form of anxiety which should be understood as coming from within as well as from external circumstances.
4 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG
Valentina Olper
Therapist, MSc
Stress is resistance to what is. We use somatic grounding and psychoanalytic awareness to find stability amidst the chaos. By understanding your unmet needs and desires, we shift your frequency from reactive tension to a flow of effortless action.
10 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG
Ellen White
Life Coach, Life & Relationship Coach
I help to reduce stress for clients by helping them learn the skills, tools and awarenesses needed to over come the challenges and/or perceptions that are keeping them from the life they desire to have. When the obstacles are removed so is the stress!
25 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG
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 Lancing, ENG
Iva Taylor Hypnosisbloom Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapist, CHt. Certified Hypnotherapist, Life Coach
"Feeling overwhelmed by stress? You're not alone. I help individuals develop effective strategies for managing stress and building resilience. We'll explore the sources of your stress, learn practical relaxation techniques, and cultivate healthy coping mechanisms to navigate life's challenges with greater calm and balance. You'll gain the tools to reduce stress, improve your well-being, and create a more peaceful and fulfilling life."
2 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG (Online Only)
Karine Flynn
Psychologist, MSc, GMBPS
Chronic stress is the nervous system stuck in activation with nowhere to discharge. When the body has been running on high alert for long enough, it stops feeling like stress and starts feeling like personality - like just the way you are. Somatic work creates the conditions for the nervous system to finally down-regulate: not through relaxation techniques, but through completing the physiological cycles that chronic stress interrupts.
23 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG
Emma Dean
Therapist, MA Hons, DipCaH, PNLP
I'm Emma, an integrative transpersonal practitioner dedicated to guiding you on a journey of self-discovery and healing. Through a blend of hypnotherapy, breathwork, meditation, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and spiritual coaching, I create a compassionate safe space for you to connect with the deepest levels of yourself. I specialise in helping clients dealing with stress and burnout. Through using different stress management tools and techniques we will create a personalised plan to help you free yourself from stress and find inner peace amongst the chaos.
4 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG
Alexandra Vartosu
Hypnotherapist, Holistic Psychotherapist & Master Life Coach, MC. (Psy.), IAPMC
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the demands of daily life? Stress can take a significant toll on your physical, emotional, and mental well-being. You might find it hard to relax, constantly feel on edge, or struggle with physical symptoms like headaches and fatigue. Left unmanaged, chronic stress can lead to more serious health issues and impact your overall quality of life.
I understand how pervasive and debilitating stress can be. My approach to managing stress is holistic and integrative, combining evidence-based psychotherapy with mindfulness, hypnotherapy, energy healing, and life coaching. Together, we will explore the underlying causes of your stress and develop personalized strategies to help you find relief and build resilience.
In our sessions, you will find a calm and supportive environment where you can learn to manage stress effectively. We will work on techniques to reduce tension, improve your coping skills, and restore balance to your life. My goal is to help you create a sustainable practice of self-care and mindfulness, allowing you to navigate life's challenges with greater ease and confidence.
13 Years Experience
Online in Lancing, ENG (Online Only)
Stress therapists in Lancing, England, United Kingdom Statistics
Stress therapists in Lancing, 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 |