Therapy for Burnout
Burnout can feel like depletion at the soul level. After dipping into your energy reserves for an extended period, either due to overwhelming pressures in life, challenging environments you don’t know how to cope with, or living a life that isn’t truly your own, running on fumes becomes your default. It feels like you have little to give, but life’s demands continue. As a result, life turns into a game of conservation: how can you continue to survive while managing the fraction of energy you have left? As you ration your efforts, important areas of your life become malnourished. Relationships, health, work, even basic life routines receive the minimum investment possible to sustain them. Not because you don’t care - because you can’t care. Or you just simply don’t have the resources. It can be heartbreaking to feel the color draining from your life as you spend the last drops of effort you can muster just getting through the day.
Recovering from burnout is not easy, but it is possible. Here’s how we’ll approach it together:
Grounding
Change is easier when we establish where we’re starting from. As you begin to share about the burnout you’re experiencing, you’ll establish a sense that although this experience is painful, it does not make you defective, broken, or unworthy. As you gently relax into this feeling, you’ll begin to notice opportunities to adapt, as well as trust in the therapeutic process.
Planning
The more you identify how you currently feel, the more it becomes clear how you want to feel in the future. We’ll visualize what a more energized life looks like, in which you can devote as much energy to your priorities as you really want to and enjoy the satisfaction that comes with that. We’ll consider obstacles standing in the way and consider how you can get over them - or around them.
Exploring
It’s one thing to visualize the path ahead; it’s another to walk it. As you start implementing the ideas and tools we practice in pursuit of the life you want, unexpected challenges will emerge. Change is uncomfortable, and this is the stage where you might start to feel that. When you do, we’ll work together to make sure you have support and tools to follow through.
Integrating
Now we look back at the progress you’ve made. Previous difficulties have become easier, and new challenges or goals have become relevant. This offers chance to go deeper, as you discover an underlying struggle or need. Or, it’s a chance to expand outwards into new territory that wasn’t accessible before. Life has a way of spiraling us back to the same themes with new tools and perspective.
If this sounds helpful, let’s connect.