Contact Us
Tel: 0113 843 4388
Email: leeds.mws@nhs.net
Our office opening hours are:
Monday, 8:00am - 6:00pm
Tuesday, 8:00am - 4:00pm
Wednesday, 8:00am - 4:00pm
Thursday, 8:00am - 6:00pm
Friday, 8:00am - 4:00pm
Please note we are closed on Bank Holidays
Stress Control
Important Information
All of our group classes are now running online, and how we monitor your progress is online too. You are required to complete a mood measure questionnaire prior to each session. You will receive a text reminder and link to the questionnaires 48 hours before your session starting. You must complete your online questionnaires at least 2 hours before each session of your group to receive an invite.
The Classes
This course focuses on helping us to reduce and better manage stress and anxiety. It teaches a variety of strategies, including: problem solving, challenging unhelpful thoughts, improving sleep, managing panic, improving lifestyle, reducing safety behaviours and avoidance.
Week One: Information about stress
You will find out what stress is and what it is not, the main signs, the vicious circles that keep it alive and how Stress Control works. We will look at case studies from people talking about how stress affects them. You will receive a workbook of information and resources (and another at each future session) and we will encourage you to start to apply the learning between classes.
Week Two: Controlling your body
We get down to tackling stress in this session. You will learn how your body signs feed stress. We look at why we get stressed and how the body reacts to it. You will learn three skills – breathing retraining, exercise, and progressive relaxation, and also look at caffeine. We will give you a link to audio relaxation and we would like you to try to start to use this regularly.
Week Three: Controlling your thoughts
You will learn how stress affects your thoughts, and how your thinking feeds stress. We will teach you ways to ‘think your way out of stress’ by understanding more about how our thoughts work and how we can learn new ways to view and understand them. Then you will learn ‘The Big 5 Challenges’ and, finally, you will learn a way to nip stress in the bud by ‘Breaking stress up’.
Week Four: Controlling your actions
This session looks at how the way we act feeds stress. You’ll learn ways to face your fears and a great skill called ‘Problem Solving’. Also we will look at why some people, who seem to be doing all the right things, still don’t get over their stress. We will then teach you how to overcome this by ‘Getting out of the Safety Zone’. These skills are really useful for building up self-confidence. You might start to see the big picture in this session – seeing how all the skills you have learned so far fit together.
Week Five: Controlling your panic, stress prevention, and medication
Panicky feelings are part and parcel of stress. This session helps you to better understand them, why they happen, and ways you can start to manage them. We will also look at some great ways to prevent stress. In this session we will also take a look at some of the common medications used for stress and answer some of the common questions about these and how they work.
Week Six: Controlling your sleep, managing your wellbeing and looking to the future
Poor sleep is often a result of stress. It also keeps stress going as you don’t recharge your batteries. So, in this session, we will look at skills to help you get a good night’s sleep. Wellbeing starts the final set of skills as we look at ways of staying on top of stress.
Young Person Stress Class
Event starts: 15th Feb 2021 5:15pm
Event ends: 15th Mar 2021 7:15pm
This course focuses on helping young people to reduce and better manage stress and anxiety. We use specific examples that reflect how stress can impact young people and students.
Information on how the groups work, instructions for attending, and the class content can be found above. Please do not book onto multiple groups as you will only be able to attend one
**Please note, this course will be 5 sessions, session 1 will be 2 hours duration, all others 90 minutes**
Daytime Stress Control Class - 19th February - 26th March
Event starts: 19th Feb 2021 10:00am
Event ends: 26th Mar 2021 12:00pm
Stress Control classes are now held online.
Daytime Classes will run every Friday Morning from 10am - 12pm, starting on the 19th February, for 6 weeks.
Information on how the groups work, instructions for attending, and the class content can be found above. Please do not book onto multiple groups as you will only be able to attend one.
Evening Stress Control Class - 4th March - 8th April
Event starts: 4th Mar 2021 5:00pm
Event ends: 8th Apr 2021 7:00pm
Stress Control classes are now held online.
Classes will run every Thursday evening from 5pm - 7pm, starting on the 4th March, for 6 weeks.
Information on how the groups work, instructions for attending, and the class content can be found above. Please do not book onto multiple groups as you will only be able to attend one.