Stress Management Therapy Sutherland Shire

Stress can quietly build over time, becoming overwhelming and difficult to manage - especially when it begins to impact your mental health, relationships, work, or overall sense of balance. Stress management therapy provides a supportive space to explore how ongoing stress is affecting your life and to develop healthier, more sustainable ways of coping.

You may be experiencing chronic stress, emotional exhaustion, difficulty switching off, irritability, sleep disruption, or a constant feeling of pressure. Stress can be linked to work demands, boundary challenges, workplace conflict, lack of fulfilment, or major life and career transitions. Counselling offers the opportunity to pause, reflect, and better understand both the emotional and nervous system responses driving stress.

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At The Counselling Cove, we work with you to gently unpack the sources of stress, support your nervous system, and reconnect with what matters most - so stress feels more manageable, rather than something that runs your life.

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Stress can show up in different ways.​

Some people first notice stress through how it feels in their body or inner world:

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• Feeling constantly “on edge,” tense, or unable to fully relax - even during downtime

• Difficulty switching off, racing thoughts, or a sense that your mind never gets a break

• Emotional exhaustion, irritability, or feeling more reactive than you used to be

• Physical signs of stress such as tightness in the body, headaches, gut issues, fatigue, or disrupted sleep

• Over-functioning, people-pleasing, or feeling responsible for everything and everyone

• A pattern of pushing through stress until your body or emotions force you to stop

• Feeling disconnected from what matters to you, or unsure how to keep going at this pace

​​​​​​Getting support for stress doesn’t need to feel formal or intimidating. Therapy can simply be a place where you slow things down, talk things through, and feel a little more steady again.

I offer a few different ways to work together, so you can choose what feels most comfortable. Some people enjoy walk and talk sessions, where being outdoors helps the conversation feel more natural and less intense. Others prefer telehealth counselling, which makes it easier to fit sessions into a full life without needing to travel. I also offer evening and weekend appointments to help therapy feel realistic, not like another thing to juggle.

If you’d rather meet in person, you’re welcome to come and see me in my quiet, private Sutherland Shire adult counselling room in Caringbah, on The Kingsway and close to the train station.

Wherever you start, the focus is the same - creating space to understand your stress and find ways to feel more at ease again.