Stress Management and Resilience

Dr. Tara McCormick has extensive experience in helping clients with stress management and resilience.  She led and facilitated Biofeedback and Stress Management, Mindfulness, and Mantram Repetition groups during her Postdoctoral fellowship training for Veterans at the Loma Linda VA Medical Center.  

She also hosted a stress management webinar while working at the Department of Continuing Education for the University of California Irvine.  She has facilitated experiential exercises to help develop leadership, communication, and team-building at ropes courses for executives, children, and people in recovery in Malibu and at the University of California Irvine. 

The Nature of Stress

 

Dr. McCormick emphasizes the importance of integrative modalities in managing stress as it has profound effects on the physical body. So stress is the body’s response to a perceived internal (e.g. negative self-talk) or external threat (e.g. relationships, financial worry, job or academic pressure and responsibilities, death of a loved one). It tends to arise from an event or a life change. As a result, chronic stress may result in both physiological/psychological processes. It can put an individual at risk for mental health issues and disease.

While stress can be motivating and help people accomplish important tasks when stress exceeds one’s capabilities. As a result, it can cause mental, emotional, and physiological distress. Dr. Tara has helped many individuals with corporate and executive stress as well. 

Signs of stress are both mental and physical and can include:

• Irritability or anger
• Digestive issues
• Fatigue
• Headaches, Migraines
• Unexplained pain
• Muscle tension/TMJ
• Difficulty sleeping
• TMJ
• Symptoms like increased heart rate, sweating, and shakiness

Psykhe Center can help you find ways to manage your stress through various holistic modalities, find coping tools for you in response to stressors, and relieve tension before it can feel overwhelming.