Online Stress therapists in Surbiton, 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 Surbiton, ENG
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 Surbiton, ENG (Online Only)
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 Surbiton, ENG
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 Surbiton, ENG
Will Salter - Connected Man Counselling
Counsellor/Therapist, ACA member, L2 IFS trained, Diploma of Counselling
Stress often shows up when different parts of you are pulling in opposite directions—one part pushing to keep everything under control, another worrying about what might go wrong, and others feeling worn down by the pressure. These inner struggles can leave you exhausted and disconnected from yourself and those around you. We can get to know these parts with compassion, helping them soften so you can access more calm, clarity, and balance. You don’t have to manage all this on your own—I’m here to support you in finding steadier ground
6 Years Experience
Online in Surbiton, ENG (Online Only)
Lisa Sanfilippo
Therapist, MA, MSc, UKCP, MBACP
If you find yourself feeling stressed - and this is your constant state- then welcome. I look forward helping you develop flexibility in your nervous system by recalling, or finding for the first time, what it's like to work, play, and relate from a *different place*. One that is a bit more adaptive and less painful. Chronic adrenal response, activation, fight-flight and 'always-on' takes a massive toll on your body and mind- and it's not a fun way to live. Let's find together ways to help you cope, the changes you may want to put in place, and most importantly, the felt- sense of something other than stress.
14 Years Experience
Online in Surbiton, ENG
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 Surbiton, ENG
Julie Kuhn - Counsellor & Supervisor
Counsellor/Therapist, Therapeutic Arts Counsellor BACP (Accred)
Counselling can help you to identify the underlying causes of stress, including patterns of overthinking, pressure, or burnout, and help to support you in developing healthier ways of coping with challenging situations. It can also help you to manage both the emotional and physical effects of stress in your day to day life.
9 Years Experience
Online in Surbiton, ENG
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 Surbiton, ENG
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 Surbiton, ENG
Ruth Mark-Roland Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, Post Grad Diploma in Psychotherapy, Foundation and Diploma in Group Analysis
I offer support for stress, including feeling overwhelmed, emotionally overloaded, burnt out, or unable to switch off. Stress can show up in many ways, such as constant mental pressure, irritability, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, sleep disruption, or a sense of always being “on edge” and unable to fully relax.
My approach is grounded in psychoanalytic and relational psychotherapy, offering a reflective and non-judgemental space to explore both current pressures and the underlying emotional patterns that may contribute to stress. Together, we may look at how early relational experiences, attachment patterns, and internal expectations can shape how you respond to demands, boundaries, and self-care.
I work in a trauma-informed way, recognising that chronic stress is often linked not only to external pressures, but also to deeper emotional dynamics such as perfectionism, people-pleasing, anxiety, or difficulty recognising personal limits. Therapy can support you in understanding these patterns and developing more sustainable ways of relating to yourself and others.
I also integrate somatic awareness to help you notice how stress is held in the body, such as tension, restlessness, or fatigue, supporting greater regulation and grounding. Psychoeducation may be used to deepen understanding of stress responses, and where appropriate, I may incorporate EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques / tapping) to support emotional release and nervous system calming.
Therapy is collaborative and paced according to your needs, helping you develop greater resilience, balance, and capacity to manage life’s demands with more ease and self-compassion.
14 Years Experience
Online in Surbiton, ENG
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 Surbiton, ENG
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 Surbiton, ENG
Fiona Grace
Counsellor/Therapist, AdvDipCounselling &Pyschotherapy MBACP
Bognor Regis, Bristol, London, West Sussex Stress we live in a world where stress seems to be inevitable . I work to help bring down the over whelming feelings that you can get with stress, breathing techniques, changes in routine and behaviours to find out the cause and how to manage this better
20 Years Experience
Online in Surbiton, ENG
Valerie Fearon
Licensed Professional Counsellor, CBT, Mindfulness, Counselling, Inner Child Truma
Counselling clients with stress, it helps the clients to explore and undulating is causing their stress. As a Counsellor I would work with the clients together to find some specific solutions that will help them to combat it. As the working relationship develop between myself and the client they are able to trust you so much that they are able to off load to you and be totally honest without feeling that they have been judged. I provide a place for my client to be accepted, and feel comfortable to open up and talk about their feelings and emotions. I am able to help my clients explore their feelings and how to make sense of it, so it's helps them find the next step forward.
11 Years Experience
Online in Surbiton, 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 Surbiton, 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 Surbiton, ENG
Karen Queller
Art Therapist, M.A Expressive Arts Therapy
Cultivate self-awareness, explore creative outlets, and develop effective coping strategies to find balance and inner peace.
7 Years Experience
Online in Surbiton, ENG
Empowered Wellbeing, Decolonizing Intersectional and Integrative Complex Trauma & Dissociation Recovery Support
Life Coach, view my credentials online at: www.recoveringfromwithin.com/credentialslongform
Please see any of the other entries. Stress is such a word that sometimes does a lot of heavy lifting in our world. Stress can mean brief experiences of sensory or cognitive overload, or could be an expression of anxiety, other health challenge impacting mental health. It could result from just not having language or a sense of space where one is accepted and can belong available to talk about one's challenge. Generally, if it's not CPTSD related there are lots of great ways to sort through overload and growth with working with inner feelings. If it's CPTSD and DID or other CPTSD based, parts work or other neurodevelopmentally supportive care might help. If it's oppression based or chronic health based, then it may help to share about the situation and find ways that are less taxing, require less masking, etc. to move through a situation or be at peace in it. Stress can sometimes mask grief. Our hegemonic culture has not developed or has even discarded tools for working with grief. So sometimes stress can be indicator that grief work is helpful. Also, a very real factor is disaster capitalism -- giving people a place to be real about that and its multiple devastating impacts is often very helpful. Sometimes it can open up new creative ways of addressing the challenge and finding agency that might have been inaccessible before. Sometimes there is just a need to mourn the challenges with other compassionate folks to feel less alone. Sometimes its about family or cultural conditioning to prove and succeed in an automated way, that discards the realm of emotions that unfortunately can't be stuffed or wedged out forever, as they are a useful gauge for inner and broader conditions when worked with constructively. Stress could be resultant from conditions not listed here, like being an overextended caregiver, etc. or stepping into one's first big art/creative event... If you're feeling stress, please feel free to reach out and ask for help!
15 Years Experience
Online in Surbiton, ENG (Online Only)
Peter Dutton
Registered Psychotherapist, Psychotherapist, Life Coach, Sports Performance Psychologist. Registered BACP Member
Stress can control your life, I will help you to understand when its not useful and how to manage it
14 Years Experience
Online in Surbiton, ENG
Stress therapists in Surbiton, England, United Kingdom Statistics
Stress therapists in Surbiton, 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% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 1% |
Non-Binary |
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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 |