Liz Makin provides a personalised stress management service to individuals who are finding it difficult to cope with high levels of stress in their lives. Her practical forward looking approach enables her clients to move forward quickly. It is an excellent alternative to more traditional long term stress counselling or psychotherapy.

Liz provides her services directly to individuals or to companies and the public sector, who contract her services for their employees. Face to face, telephone and email based services are available.

Liz is an accredited business mentor, coach and stress consultant, with extensive business knowledge and experience. Liz is based in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

Our Stress Management Services

If you are finding it difficult to cope with a stressful period in your life, Liz will help you through it and provide you with stress management strategies to help you to positively cope with stress in the future. This will include supporting you to:

* Talk through what you are experiencing.
* Discuss your emotions and feelings.
* Recognise the symptoms of your stress.
* Identify and understand the causes of your stress.
* Take action to address the causes of your stress.
* Develop stress management strategies to help you positively cope with stress in the future.

Usually, Liz works with clients over a series of one or two hour sessions on a monthly basis. However the actual number and frequency of sessions is entirely the client's decision. All the support provided is totally private and confidential.

Liz uses stress consultancy, stress management, stress counselling and stress coaching techniques in her sessions with clients. This combination is designed to help her clients move forward quickly.

Liz works with a wide variety of people and supports them through stress that has been caused by many different reasons including:

* Work pressures.
* Balancing personal and working lifes.
* Parenting.
* Relationships.
* Financial worries.
* Moving house.
* Redundancy or retirement.
* Job or career change.
* Separation or divorce.
* Educational pressures.
* Conflict with others.
* Perfectionism.
* Low self esteem.
* Lack of confidence.
* Past experiences.
* Bereavements.
* Emotional traumas and phobias.
* A series of minor irritations.
* Being bored and stuck in a rut.
* Feeling generally unable to cope.

The Benefits

There are many benefits of our stress management services including:

* Recognising the symptoms of your stress.
* Identifying and understanding the causes of your stress.
* Taking actions to move forward from the stressful situation you are in.
* Moving forward quickly.
* Dealing with stress positively in the future.
* Stress management tools and strategies to use.
* Talking through your experiences.
* Discussing your emotions and feelings.
* Changing your life for the better.
* Improving your personal performance.
* Better relationships with others.
* Feeling happier and more satisfied with your life.
* Understanding yourself better.
* Improving your self confidence & self esteem.

What is Stress?

Stress is the physical and mental responses of the body to demands placed upon it. Some stress can be positive and research suggests that a moderate level of stress makes us perform better. Too little stress can lead to boredom, whereas too much can be harmful. We are negatively impacted by stress when the pressures upon us exceed our resources to cope with these pressures.

More Information on Stress

More information about stress including the symptoms and causes of stress, can be found on the following websites:

NHS Direct
The Mental Health Foundation
Mind
BUPA
The BBC
Channel 4
The Health & Safety Executive
Mind Tools
Stressbusting.co.uk
The International Stress Management Association