Here is the Amazon link to purchase Stress to Strength: A Therapist’s Guide to Empower Clients – a transformative suite of tools to empower clients plus prevent therapist burnout.
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RECENT EVENTS:
KGNU interview Friday, November 22. This is a call-in talk show with host Kathy Partridge – an excellent interviewer! About half way in, I lead the RAIN exercise from the Stress to Strength book.
SPARK talk (TEDish talk) This happened Friday, October 18th in Boulder. This will be made available by December after the filming crew finishes their edits.
Thank you Book Owners – the next tab has your password-protected web page, with further tips on using the Stress to Strength model for yourself and for clients. The password is on page 54 of the book, and also in the back of the book.
Bookmark this page for other upcoming events. Groups start in January – join the mail list on the right side of the page (Substack NL) to hear of therapist and muggle groups that start in January.
You can also email Denise at mdenisebarnes at gmail with any questions about the tools.
Author Denise Barnes was on KGNU radio on 4/1/24 to discuss the book.
The interview was with Sam Fuqua of KGNU.org. Listen here. 5 minutes.
Interview with marketing guru Robert Middleton for the Ordinary Visionaries series.
Watch the interview here. It’s #21, 50 minutes.
How to Deal with the Ups and Downs in Life and Business – see his post here.
TOOLS FOR CLIENTS AND THERAPISTS TO MASTER STRESS
You are not alone if you’re a therapist struggling to meet your client’s needs. Today’s uncertain world means stress levels are high, and clients want quick relief. They want tools to make sense of adversity, and to help themselves. Delivering their desired transformation and growth – well, it can be complicated! The Stress to Strength model offers evidence-based tools to empower clients and therapists in building resilience.
Whether it’s a twenty-year-old arriving with panic attacks and trauma history, or a mother who just found out an internet predator sexually abused her teenage daughter, the Stress to Strength model provides that quick relief. It delivers lifelong tools that work.
Whether you are a therapist or not, this method is easy to learn and is a game changer for handling stress and unwelcome surprises. What happens when you gain mastery of stress management? Your life improves. You know ways to leave Fight or Flight mode. That means you will have more creativity and more flow states.
Masterful Stress Management that’s Evidenced-Based
This evidence-based approach to managing stress is simple and intuitive for clients. And that user-friendly aid makes it a burnout prevention miracle for therapists, coaches, and other helping professionals.
Based on the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, these Four Steps were used by the author’s research team in a clinical trial enriching recovery for breast cancer patients exiting treatment. Proven to help those facing life-threatening illness, it can certainly aid clients and therapists navigating today’s uncertain world.
The Stress to Strength model will help clients to:
- Nip overwhelm and stress in the bud before it gets out of hand
- Match the best coping tool to their specific stress
- Handle emotions and moods that try to derail their next steps
- Increase the strength and accuracy of their emotional intelligence
- Learn ways to increase kindness to themselves and others
Designed to teach how to share the Stress to Strength model, Therapists will gain:
- A simple structure for clients to gain insight into the roots of old patterns
- Fast help so clients lower stress and ease stuckness
- Tools and frameworks that clients can use during and after therapy
- ‘Good fit coping’ steps that match the types of stress with ideal solutions
- More ways for clients to prioritize, and match actions to their values
How the Stress to Strength Model Helps Clients and Therapists
This model includes five tools to empower clients and therapists in building resilience. The practices support clients to grow the muscles needed to stop avoiding pain or stress and learn how to face it with grace. This foundation empowers the deeper work of therapy to come from a more resourced place. When that happens, people will lead happier lives and make a bigger difference in the world.
If you struggle to find what to offer your clients when their stress is through the roof, this model will provide options and calming solutions that clients can rinse and repeat outside sessions. They will grow their independence and resilience with astounding speed.
The author is excited to share this labor of love after watching clients grow their confidence to handle anything life throws their way. With this foundation, clients can heal and grow, hone their genius work, and create their best life. And therapists can leave their work in the office, knowing they’ve enabled the shifts their clients seek most.
About the Author
Denise Barnes, MA, LPC, Rev, has been teaching the TMSC since 1996, and uses it often in her own life. She’s passionate about clients growing their independence and resilience, and therapists reducing burnout. This model builds confidence, emotional intelligence, intuition accuracy, decision-making, and communication skills. With these practices, clients gain more happiness and fulfillment. Therapists who use it increase clarity, self-care, creativity, and thriving.
Go here for an earlier, free version of the book’s 4 Steps to Destress tools. This is a good way to share the ideas with others who haven’t purchased the book.
Book owners, go to this page and enter your password from the book on page 54 (or the back of the ebook) to access more resources and practice guidance.
