Stress Relief - Completing the stress response cycle & tips to manage your stress

Episode 215: Stress Relief - Completing the stress response cycle & tips to manage your stress. When we face anything the brain perceives as a threat, stress is the body's natural response. Like all biological processes, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. If we can move all the way through the stress response cycle, we stay healthier while gaining stress relief. Licensed Clinical Social Worker and founder of Honu Therapy Services, LLC Lana Lipe discusses stress relief and tips for completing the stress response cycle.

► Learn more about The Impact of Stress On Physical and Emotional Health with Easy Tips to Manage Your Stress — Honu Therapy Services at Lana's blog https://www.honutherapy.com/blog/stressmanagementtips

Lana Lipe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and founder of Honu Therapy Services, LLC. She is a private practice therapist in Honolulu, Hawaii who helps adult clients living with: chronic conditions, grief, loss, stress, trauma, anxiety, depression & perfectionism.

Lana earned her Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work in 2017.

She has over six years working in healthcare and non-profit settings to include: a skilled nursing facility and nursing home, a non-profit Chronic Kidney Disease agency, and 4 intensive care units (ICUs). During this time, Lana has worked with countless patients and their families as they navigate the challenges associated with critical illness, chronic illness, and end-of-life care. She has extensive training in crisis intervention, grief counseling, end-of-life planning, advocacy, intersectionality and health equity & trauma-informed care.

During her time as an ICU Social Worker in a level-one trauma hospital, Lana helped co-create a Critical Incident Stress Management team (CISM) that was implemented hospital-wide.

In addition to her work as a healthcare professional, Lana’s work has been published in The New Social Worker Magazine. She has been featured as a recurrent guest mental health expert on James Fabin’s Chronic Kidney Disease Channel—Dadvice TV. Her work has also been featured in numerous other online publications.

As of August 2021, Lana is training to become a Certified Grief Educator with world-renowned grief expert, David Kessler.

✅ Learn more about James Fabin and Kidney Disease at: https://www.dadvicetv.com/