Stress

Lifestyle Counseling

Manage Your Lifestyle To Reduce Stress

The stress that you experience can become so automatic in your lifestyle that you don't know how to change aspects of your life to reduce it. During the 12-week program, you work with a certified lifestyle counselor to identify parts of your lifestyle that cause you stress and make adjustments to reduce it.

Stress Profile

Assess the Level, Cause, and Effect Of Stress On Your Life

The Stress Profile quickly identifies individual characteristics and behaviors that protect against or contribute to stress-related illness. In just 20 minutes, the Stress Profile measures all personal traits and lifestyle habits that have been shown to moderate the stress-illness relationship. This convenient inventory provides scores in 15 areas related to stress and health risk.

Mind-Body Medicine

Learn Techniques To Relax and Reduce Stress In Real-Time

During the 12-week program, you also learn relaxation techniques that have been proven by medical research to reduce stress and relieve the symptoms of many illnesses. You learn through individual instruction and exercises, video and audio lessons, a biofeedback monitor, workbook and other materials. The program was developed by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.

Therapeutic Stress Management

Manage and Reduce Stress To Improve Health

Therapeutic Stress Management is a 12-week program that helps you better manage and reduce stress to improve health. You learn how to change your lifestyle in areas that cause the most stress, and learn research-based mind-body techniques that help you relax. The program enables you to track your progress in real time, and learn the science of stress and relaxation.

According to the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, stress has been shown to be a contributing factor in 80% of illnesses. It inhibits healing and recovering from illnesses. Stress can effect your health in many ways, such as:

Immune System: Stress on the immune system causes physiological changes that tend to weaken the system so infections and illnesses occur more frequently.

Cardiovascular System: Chronic stress can result in high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, strokes, heart attacks, and other cardiovascular system disorders.

Nervous System: The human nervous system responds to stress in many different ways. Some people may develop migraine headaches, while others suffer from sleep deprivation or chronic fatigue.

The program includes instruction in many relaxation techniques that have been proven by medical research to reduce stress and relieve the symptoms of many illnesses. It uses groundbreaking stress management programs from the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and the American Association of Lifestyle Counselors. The following briefly explains each component of the 12-week Therapeutic Stress Management Program.