STRESS COUNSELING in TAMPA FL. & BRANDON FL.

WHAT IS STRESS?

As a stress therapy center in Tampa Fl. & Brandon Fl., we explain stress to ourclients as our body’s way of responding to any kind of demand or threat. When we feel threatened, your nervous system responds by releasing a flood of stress hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol, which rouse the body for emergency action. Your heart pounds faster, muscles tighten, blood pressure rises, breath quickens, and your senses become sharper. These physical changes increase your strength and stamina, speed your reaction time, and enhance your focus.

This is known as the “fight or flight” stress response and is your body’s way of protecting you. When working properly, stress helps you stay focused, energetic, and alert. In emergency situations, stress can save your life—giving you extra strength to defend yourself, for example, or spurring you to slam on the brakes to avoid an accident.

Stress can also help you rise to meet challenges. Stress is what keeps you on your toes during a presentation at work, sharpens your concentration when you’re attempting the game-winning free throw, or drives you to study for an exam when you’d rather be watching TV.

But beyond your comfort zone, stress stops being helpful and can start causing major damage to your mind and body.

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PRE MARRIAGE COUNSELING WORKSHOP IN TAMPA FL & BRANDON FL.

Confidently walk down the aisle knowing you can get through anything together

Congratulations on your engagement! For couples planning to get married, the time leading up to the wedding is a special time to plan for the future. Couples who choose Premarital Counseling at Star Point Counseling Center and Affordable Counseling Center in Tampa Fl. & Brandon FL. have the opportunity to build a healthy foundation for a life-long healthy marriage. Together we will identify your couples’ strength and growth areas while improving communication and conflict resolution skills. As a Star Point  Couples Counselor, I can help couples in premarital counseling with the following:

• Assess family roles and the impact they have on the relationship
• Create healthy communication styles and resolve past issues
• Define boundaries and expectations
• Heal emotional injuries
• Resolve childhood wounds
• Tools for how to fight fair and resolve conflict

What to Expect – Premarital Counseling typically include the following:

 

• A customized couples assessment –  This is an easy prepare and enrich assessment. The inventory identifies your strength and growth areas as a couple.
• 3-8 feedback sessions –  As a trained  facilitator, we will help you as a couple to  discuss and understand your results while teaching proven relationship skills.

COUPLES COUNSELING, MARRIAGE COUNSELING & RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING in TAMPA FL. & BRANDON FL.

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• Build Love Maps: Knowing each other and staying updated on the partner’s internal and external worlds. The fundamental process involves asking open-ended questions.

• Share Fondness and Admiration: Including expressing appreciation and gratitude, affection/intimacy, and showing respect for one another.

• Turn Towards: Building awareness of how one’s partner asks for connection and expresses emotional needs and deciding to turn towards these “bids” rather than turning away dismissively or turning against with hostility or contempt. Turning towards makes deposits in the emotional bank account of the relationship, creating a reserve to draw on in times of crisis or turmoil.

• The Positive Perspective: What does it feel like to be in this relationship? The overarching sentiment is negative if neutral or positive messages are perceived as negative. Building the Positive Perspective involves shifting focus to notice what your partner is doing that is thoughtful, interesting, or positive in some way.

• Manage Conflict: Learning to dialogue about Perpetual (unsolvable) Problems and work on Solvable Problems.

• Make Life Dreams Come True: Create an environment that welcomes honest exploration of each person’s dreams, values, beliefs, and aspirations.

• Create Shared Meaning: Creating narratives about what life means and the rituals of connection that enact these meanings.

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