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Science-Driven Guidance for Working Under Pressure

For individuals and organizations navigating chronic work stress


Since 2013, our work has focused on understanding work stress not as a personal weakness, but as a signal that demands, expectations, and pressures have exceeded human capacity to adapt. Stressinsight translates insights from neuroscience and workplace research into guidance that helps individuals and organizations regain clarity under sustained pressure.


✅ Grounded in neuroscience and solid research
✅ Applied to real workplaces, leadership roles, and everyday decisions

✅ Relevant across roles, industries, and levels of responsibility

Start with the Free Guide
A short guide with small, manageable steps to regain clarity and a sense of control under stress.
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Science-Driven Guidance for Working Under Pressure — For individuals and organizations navigating chronic work stress

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Since 2013, our work has focused on understanding work stress not as a personal weakness, but as a signal that demands, expectations, and pressures have exceeded human capacity to adapt. Stressinsight translates insights from neuroscience and workplace research into guidance that helps individuals and organizations regain clarity under sustained pressure.


✅ Grounded in neuroscience and solid research
✅ Applied to real workplaces, leadership roles, and everyday decisions

✅ Relevant across roles, industries, and levels of responsibility

Start with the Free Guide
A short guide with small, manageable steps to regain clarity and a sense of control under stress.

13

Years of experience

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Articles and videos

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Science, Psychology and Management combined

What Stressinsight offers

Stacked offer for individuals

For Professionals Experiencing Persistent Work Stress

This is not about pushing through or “managing” stress.  It’s about understanding what your stress is telling you — and responding in a way that restores clarity, energy, and control.


You’ll be supported to:

  • Understand how stress affects perception, decisions, and emotional responses

  • Make sense of recurring stress patterns without forcing premature change

  • Regain clarity and direction when stress keeps returning


Because stress is not a failure to cope —
it’s a signal that something needs attention.

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Offer for businesses

For Leaders Addressing Chronic Pressure in Their Organization

Workplace stress is rarely an individual issue.  It’s a signal that demands, expectations, or decision pressure have exceeded what people and systems can sustainably absorb.


We work with organizations to:

  • Identify where stress is accumulating — using structured diagnostics and targeted conversations

  • Clarify roles, responsibilities, and decision pathways that silently amplify pressure

  • Guide focused changes that reduce overload while protecting performance

  • Support leaders through change cycles that stabilize improvements over time


The result is not “wellbeing initiatives,” but work that functions better — because pressure is managed where it actually arises.

See how we work with organizations

When Work Stress Stops Feeling Manageable, Start Here

When stress builds up, most people don’t need big solutions right away.
They need enough stability to pause, regain perspective, and understand what’s driving the pressure.

This free guide is designed as a first step — not to “fix” stress, but to help you regain clarity and a sense of agency when everything feels urgent.

Inside the guide, you’ll learn how to:

  • Use small, well-chosen steps to interrupt overwhelm

  • Reduce mental overload when thinking becomes stuck or circular

  • Regain perspective when everything feels equally important

  • Reconnect with what actually matters in your situation

The guide introduces five neuroscience-based micro-actions that help stabilize attention, energy, and emotional reactivity under pressure, supported by a printable checklist you can use in daily moments of overload and stress.

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Stressinsight's philosophy

About stressinsight

Workplace stress is often treated as a personal problem to manage — or a cost to minimize.
We see it differently.

At Stressinsight, we approach stress as a signal: a sign that demands, expectations, or pressures have exceeded what people and organizations can sustainably adapt to.

Our work brings together insights from stress neuroscience, psychiatry, and organizational practice to help individuals and organizations make sense of that signal — and respond to it thoughtfully.

In practice, this means creating space for:

  • Understanding how stress affects perception, decision-making, and energy — and how clarity can return without forcing change

  • Developing a shared, non-blaming language around pressure — so teams can reflect before stress escalates

  • Examining how working conditions, roles, and decision structures contribute to chronic stress — and where adjustments may reduce unnecessary pressure

Whether you’re experiencing persistent work stress yourself, or leading others under sustained pressure, the focus is the same:

restoring clarity, stability, and the conditions for work to function sustainably over time.

Learn more about Stressinsight

Reflections from people we’ve worked with

I finally understand why so many people suffer from stress at work
Stressinsight clearly shows what can be done to reduce stress at the workplace. Highly recommended!
Hannie Vermeij - The Netherlands
I now know how stress can lead to disease
Stressinsight offers expert insight in health problems that can be caused by stress, and how the body reacts to stress. Lots of important information about stress.
Willem Smit - The Netherlands
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