title: Treatment of anxiety and stress with biofeedback.
abstract: "Kate" is a thin, attractive 50-year-old perimenopausal woman who considers herself "basically healthy" but feels she needs help with stress management in her life. She is educated, married, and the mother of 4 children ranging in age from 11 to 22 years. In addition to managing her household, she has a full-time job as an administrative assistant and also works a part-time job from home. She states she needs to do this so the family can "get back on our feet" as her husband was unemployed for a number of months and they currently have 2 children in college. In addition, they relocated a year ago to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for her husband's job and now have a higher mortgage payment. "Family" is Kate's top priority, but she does not receive much assistance from her husband on the home front and feels "there is not enough time in a day."
authors.affiliation: Christine Dunster, RN, MA, is staff development manager at St Camillus Care and Rehabilitation Center, Stamford, Connecticut, and offers health coaching when time permits. She was a nurse clinician/educator and coordinator of the Women's Resource Center at Greenwich Hospital's Center for Integrative Medicine when this case report was written; the center closed in September 2011.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dunster
keywords: Stress; anxiety; biofeedback; coherence; sleep disruption