Stress Therapy in Denver
Stress is inevitable
We spend a lot of hours working, even without counting the amount of hours we spend thinking about work when we aren’t there. Often time feelings of being overwhelmed at work start to blur the lines between work and home.
Stress from the office begins to take a toll at home. You can’t leave work at work.
Stress starts to rob the enjoyment from things you used to love to do.
There’s no shortage of accomplishments and achievements to pursue, but it’s not clear if you are pursuing what you really want. Racing to the next goal starts to feel pointless. You are just chasing a never ending string of achievements.
The chasing may never stop, but the enjoyment does. Each time you hit a new accomplishment you can’t appreciate or enjoy it. It’s just on to the next one.
There can always be more, but it never feels like enough. A new title, a different job, more money, more people to appease…
What stress can look like:
Feeling irritable a lot of the time
Feeling overwhelmed
Feeling out of control
Feeling like you are never “off the clock” (or maybe you never really are “off the clock”)
Thoughts and feelings about work start to creep into your home life
Get back to enjoying life
Together we can work to establish healthy boundaries between your work life and the rest of life. We will build skills to help you better manage stress. We can work together to build a plan to stop stress from grinding the enjoyment from your life and get back to enjoying it. I’ll venture a guess that you aren’t nearing retirement yet, so we can explore how to bring, or find, some kind of meaning and purpose to the work you are doing, or find the work you want to do.
You’ll learn skills to respond differently to the thoughts and emotions that lead to stress. These skills can help you transcend stress and get back to working towards the things you care about. We can work together to end the chase and shift the focus to getting engaged in things you really care about.
I have spent more than a decade helping men end their struggles with stress. My practice is grounded in well researched, reliable, and evidenced-based methods. Together we use these methods to identify old, unhelpful, counterproductive behavioral patterns, and then build more flexible, adaptive, behavioral patterns.