Stress Free Corner

Challenge overview

The COVID-19 pandemic has a major effect on our lives, placing many challenges on our socio-economic and mental health. Stress can be very negative to our well-being, that’s why it is essential to learn how to deal with stress and stressful situations in a healthy way. Learning to handle and cope with stress can help deal with many emotional issues.

Stress Free Corner was established to provide online health support when dealing with stress and fostering the overall well being of individuals. According to the founder of Stress Free Corner, stress management programmes should be accessible to everyone and inclusive of people’s varying needs and performances.

Establishment of the organisation/initiative/enterprise

Stress Free Corner was founded by Saranda Rexha, a Body psychotherapist and counsellor. The body-mind approach became Saranda’s path and her main goal. She believes in the natural spirit and everything that has soul, people and animals, flowers and rocks. Saranda’s entrepreneurial journey is living in the present, by living where life is happening and continuing to work with dedication and passion. Saranda never thought of creating an online platform, but by constantly being requested by people she decided to support them by launching Stress Free Corner. With Stress Free Corner, Saranda and her patients can stay connected despite the physical distance and geographical barriers.

Management structure and governance

Saranda Rexha is the founder of Stress Free Corner, together with Edona Kryeziu Xhambazi who is the finance and administration manager of Stress Free Corner. Along are five external consultants who form the dedicated team of the platform.

Principles of work, objectives and activities

The work of Stress Free Corner is based on building relationships, interacting and providing services based on the core values of the organisation:

• Professionalism – In Stress Free Corner’s structure, commitment is seen as professional growth through continuous development and professional supervision, active participation in self-development and self-reflection programs. Communication within the company is oriented in the form that facilitates the interaction and sharing ideas, encouraging creative solving problems that leads to a strong professional presence in every action.
• Integrity – Professional ethics of the company reflect the contribution of all staff and are based on core principles, norms of special services, cultural and geographical diversity. One of the most important assets in the company is integrity, enabling the creation of interpersonal relationships in an environment that inspires all to maintain high reasoning with clients.
• Presence – the value of presence is highly important to Stress Free Corner, especially in building lasting and healthy relationships with all clients. By being present, the team aims to focus more on the requirements and needs of clients, and support a more holistic view of services, longer-term and more sustainable.
• Vitality – as one of the essential strengths for life, focusing on goals, knowing what the team can bring to clients, enables Stress Free Corner to stay safe and represent personal and professional vitality.
• Compassion – Stress Free Corner values that compassion is important such as us in our lives and in our work in general. It is one of the values that accompanies the team in its human experiences. Stress Free Corner will take care that this value accompanies all of the team with the relations with clients, offering the opportunity to respond with understanding, patience and kindness.

Target groups

Stress Free Corner’s target groups are individuals who struggle with stress and want to learn how to deal with it in a healthy way. The platform is created for individuals and companies who wish to relieve stress.

Individuals can conduct individual stress tests, connect and communicate with therapists to discuss needs, select the appropriate level of support needed and start their therapy by opening a video-communicational link.

For companies, Stress Free Corner offers support for organisations and employees to make happy employees by Supporting mental health at work as the best thing for businesses and companies.

Innovation

Stress-Free Corner is an online platform focused on body-oriented psychotherapy to help individuals and companies identify stress points and create mechanisms for managing overall stress.

Some of the major features are:

• Individual Stress Tress to measure the stress level by asking a series of questions about common stressors.
• Session Management System to support the booking, scheduling, and payment of body-oriented psychotherapy and counselling psychology.
• Video Conference Integration to facilitate the provision of online psychological and therapeutic support and organisation of webinars.
• Audio & Video Management tool to create and monetize podcast and video tutorials.
• E-commerce Integration to manage the process of online selling stress relief products.

Key Partners

Stress Free Corner has been developed by Scalegate, a digital partner with an extraordinary purpose – creating value and scaling organisations in an increasingly connected world.

Impact and Evaluation

Stress Free Corner has been chosen as a best practice because of its innovative online platform with all the tutorials, webinars, and e-commerce products individuals or companies might need to start managing their stress.

The platform offers watching and listening to tutorials and podcasts from certified instructors to keep track of  daily stress and learn how to decrease and control it. Platform users that are subscribed for webinars will receive written or audio materials that will help them to continuously improve their stress management techniques and decrease their daily stress. A selection of stress relief products which encourage to practice diligent self-care and help calm the mind and relax the body.

Recommendations

Stress Free Corner’s business model is based on innovative and highly effective methods to fight stress for individuals and companies. Stress can take its toll, but therapy can help manage it better, this is the philosophy behind the management of Stress Free Corner. All of that makes the best practice’s business module suitable for an international application.

Lessons Learned

Dealing and preventing stress is very important if one wants to live happy and healthy. Stress Free Corner has been established to provide methods and techniques of body-oriented psychotherapy and to help individuals and companies identify stress points and learn how to deal with them. The main lesson learned from establishing entrepreneurial practice is that when you feel stressed and anxious, there is a team of professionals that can relieve you from these feelings.

References

The webpage of Stress Free Corner.

Information about Stress Free Corner on the Scalegate’s webpage.