Burnout therapy
For people doing well by every external measure and running on empty underneath it. Including the version nobody around you can see.
Free 15-minute consultationBurnout in capable, driven people rarely looks like collapse. You still deliver. You’re still the person others rely on. The deterioration happens somewhere no one is looking.
If you’re reading this between meetings, or at 11pm because it’s the first quiet hour of the day, that’s part of the picture too.
You have almost certainly tried the obvious things: taking leave, exercising more, setting boundaries, reducing the load where you could. They help for a while and then it returns, which is confusing and tends to get read as a personal failure.
It returns because burnout is usually not only about workload. It’s about what the work is doing for you, and what it costs. Being capable, being needed, being the one who handles it — these are often long-standing ways of securing your place, and they started well before this job. Reducing hours doesn’t touch that.
Not time management. The work is understanding what drives the pace, what you believe would happen if you stopped, and what it has cost to be this reliable for this long.
Some people come expecting to be told to leave their career, and are relieved to find that isn’t the aim. Plenty of people finish this work still doing the same job, with a different relationship to it. Others do change something. Either outcome is legitimate, and you don’t have to decide in advance.
Sessions are 50 minutes, in person or online, including outside standard hours where possible.
Psychodynamic·Somatic·Polyvagal·Parts Work·Emotion-Focused·CBT·Mindfulness-Based
Is burnout actually a clinical condition?
Burnout is recognised by the World Health Organization as an occupational phenomenon rather than a medical diagnosis. In practice it often overlaps with anxiety and depression, and it responds well to therapy regardless of what it's called.
I don't have time for weekly therapy. Is this realistic?
That concern is itself worth examining, and it's also practical. Some clients start weekly and move to every other week. Online sessions remove commuting time, and I can sometimes accommodate early or later slots.
Will you tell me to quit my job?
No. The aim is understanding what's driving the pace and what it's costing. Some people change something afterward and many don't. That decision stays yours.
Do you work with executives and other professionals?
Yes. A significant part of my practice is high-functioning professionals, including people who spent years assuming therapy was for a more serious problem than theirs.
What does it cost?
Individual sessions are $150 for 50 minutes. Private pay, with a superbill on request for out-of-network reimbursement.
Fifteen minutes, and you don’t need a tidy account of what’s wrong. I respond personally to every inquiry within 48 hours.
Free 15-minute consultation