AboutStress.com, was established in 1999 as a service for you as well as our individual and corporate clients at Stress Management Institute (SMI) to provide information, help and resources for concerns about stress. Since 1976, Dr. Shaffer has provided the most effective solutions available for every aspect of stress management.

For over 30 years he has worked with experts in a wide-range of specialties because stress impacts our lives and health in many different ways. Each of us is unique in the ways stress affects us, but there are common tools which everyone can use in order to cope better. Because of this the SMI programs, services, and products, are designed for maximum personal impact, to provide quick, easy, yet powerful techniques for maximum success.