Burnout

Almost all folks that have done in-person or any type of classified essential work during the pandemic has experienced work burnout and compassion fatigue. I utilize my live experience as an essential worker and years working in behavioral health systems as a way to process and create healthy coping mechanisms to re-energize clients to creating a work/life balance that minimizes and prevents extra stress.

I work with many working professionals managing challenging work environments, compassion fatigue and burnout.

Stress and burnout is at an all-time high. Together we'll help you recalibrate your inner compass so you can move towards a life that honors what's most important to you. I'll help you develop strategies and skills to manage your stress and burnout so you can feel like yourself again. We'll clarify your core values so you can be more intentional about how your invest your time and energy. You'll also gain stills so you can feel more grounded and whole.

I have helped numerous clients find peace again in their lives after experiencing burnout and compassion fatigue. By finding methods of working through these issues such as mindfulness practices, self-compassion and various other methods of identifying self-care plans, and identifying work-life balance, I can help you get your life back on track again and rediscover a whole new quality to life!

I'm particularly adept at supporting health care workers like doctors, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and students of health professions. Other professions I support when people are feeling burnout include code monkeys and tech workers, other therapists and professional helpers, teachers, and social or environmental justice workers.

Through therapy, we explore the underlying causes of burnout, develop coping strategies, and prioritize self-care. Together, we create a plan to help clients manage their symptoms and regain a sense of balance and well-being.

Burnout can be related to any area of life that requires a significant amount of effort, dedication, and responsibility. Being burned out goes beyond feeling like you’re drowning in responsibilities. Burnout is a pervasive sense of being all dried up. It occurs gradually over time. Using mindfulness-based & brain-body approaches I guide clients experiencing burnout in employing self-compassion to discover and develop true self-care.

Burnout is by its nature and overwhelming and isolating experience that often leaves people pointing the blame finger at themselves and feeling like failures. I have found that narrative approaches to shift the blame off the self and on to the actual nature of the problem as well as finding new and sustainable ways to provide self care to be effective in burnout recovery and prevention.

Sacrificing your own needs for others, for too long, can put you on the road to burnout. This is especially prevalent for visionaries, leaders, big-hearted helpers, and social services workers. These roles require self-care and boundaries that can feel selfish and often get neglected. Learn to put parameters around your help, manage vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue, AND stay in alignment with your values to decrease your risk for burnout. Take care of yourself - so you can help others.

Coping with unreasonable expectations and feelings of overwhelm in the workplace; restoring energy, balance, and motivation.

Burnout is often used to describe toxic job environments and how an employee is feeling. However, burnout at our job is not the only place we experience it. We can experience burnout with: family relationships, parenting, social media, news/media, pandemic, non-family relationships, healthcare, helping and giving to others. I specialize with BIPOC professionals in managing burnout and how to approach it with self-compassion and action.

I have many clients who experience emotional numbing, disconnection, and overwhelm due to the demanding nature of their lives in and outside of work. Let's work together to examine the frameworks you function in: both internally in your mind as well as externally (the culture of your work/family). We can reconnect you to your true self and your values, allowing for a greater sense of freedom and peace.

Burnout is a mental, physical, and emotional state that looks like a mix of depression and anxiety. Some of the most common forms of burnout are pandemic fatigue, work burnout, parenting burnout, caregiving fatigue, and compassion fatigue. I am trained in multiple therapies and approaches to support burnout recovery and burnout resistance.

You want to feel peaceful and content, but instead you are: overwhelmed by stress, totally burned out, and questioning if you will ever feel the rewards from your career as you once did. Each day feels like you are being stretched a bit thinner and you wonder how much you have left to give. Life doesn’t have to go on this way. It is my mission to provide scientifically informed psychotherapy for women experiencing professional burnout without sacrificing compassion and genuine concern.

Ever feel like everything is just too much? Not getting as much done as you used to? Nothing feels worth it anymore? You may be experiencing burnout. Recognizing what's happening is a critical first step, and then working on balancing work and life--and giving yourself permission to do that--is important. We'll also work on boundary setting and other workplace skills, as well as taking time for yourself: and therapy is that first step.

Hustle and grind, do more, move faster, be everything to everyone and available at all times....sacrifice yourself for your career and family. No more!! Doing all the "right things" can leave you with a life that looks good but not one that feels good. Shame and ignoring true feelings to put on a happy face so no one else is disappointed will destroy your mind, body, and spirit. Burnout recovery is more than just self-care activities. Let's build a life we don't need to escape from!

I specialize in helping clients recover from burnout, particularly those affected by toxic, high-performance workplaces. Our focus is on managing stress, enhancing self-care, and establishing a healthy work-life balance. We'll identify key stressors and implement strategies to set sustainable professional boundaries, empowering you to thrive in both your personal and professional life.

Burnout doesn’t even begin to describe what some folks are going through. I suggest that we are not facing a “shortage” of workers, but rather a resistance from people who are able to put up with exploitative systems. We need a reckoning; a reimagining. Let's explore creative next steps to go from exploited to thriving.

We all feel burnt out at some point. Burnout can happen with school, jobs, and relationships. Together, we can explore how this sensation feels and how it got to this point. You are not alone in this feeling.