Castlemilk Stress Centre provides a range of stress management and personal development services to individuals and groups in the community that improve health and wellbeing, and encourages individuals to participate in activities that help them progress towards training, employment and volunteering opportunities.  In order to achieve this we provide:
 
•           Individual therapies in Aromatherapy, Reflexology and Reiki to help people feel more relaxed and reduce the detrimental effects of stress, which in turn improves health and well being.  When people feel more relaxed they often feel more positive and more able to make positive life choices.
 
•           Individual Stress Management Programmes incorporating individual therapies. People also learn relaxation techniques they can apply at home to help them cope in stressful situations.  People are also supported in identifying the ‘stressors’ in their life and are given advice on practical coping techniques.
 
•           Relaxation classes to teach people skills they can apply in everyday life to help them cope in stressful situations and reduce the detrimental effects of stress.  Many clients attending for individual therapies often progress to classes and workshops.
 
•           6 week stress management classes to help people identify causes and affects of stress and learn coping techniques.
 
•           personal development courses to help people feel more confident and more positive.   People are supported in identifying areas of development in their lives and learn practical ways of setting and achieving goals.
 
•           Taster and Introductory courses to introduce people to a learning environment, teaching new skills, building confidence and self esteem thus supporting individuals to progress towards employment.  Introductory courses will be delivered in Aromatherapy and Reflexology giving people an introduction, teaching skills and building confidence.  This could encourage people to progress towards further education to gain qualifications to a credited standard.
 
 
The services provided by the Stress Centre primarily aims to reduce the detrimental effects of stress thus improving health and wellbeing.  If people feel healthier and more positive they are more likely to access other services both within the Stress Centre and the wider community and people are encouraged to do so.  We recognised a number of years ago that quite often people attending the Stress Centre progressed to education, training and volunteering opportunities, but that there were individuals facing barriers to participation who required additional support.  In response to this we now provide training and volunteering opportunities for people with a range of issues including physical and mental health problems, addictions and low confidence.  This enables people, that otherwise may have great difficulty, to progress to training and volunteering opportunities in a supported environment that they feel safe in.