Therapy for Burnout in Pennsylvania
Slow down & notice where you are.
Does this sound familiar?
You’re unable to turn your work brain off once you’re off the clock
Your weekends aren’t restful or fun like you wish they were
You feel guilty for not making the most of the time that you have to yourself
You struggle to fully savor the holidays with your loved ones because there’s a part of you that can’t stop thinking about your job or your current goals
You’ve felt overwhelm and anxiety for so long that, physically, you feel horrible
You’ve found yourself doubting you’ll ever be free from the anxious-overachieving-burnout cycle
Imagine learning to embrace your successes and your work…
and to let yourself just be.
Whether you are a mental health professional, medical professional, business owner, or a student, separating yourself from your work is essential.
Workplace trauma
Toxic workplaces
Work-related stress dreams
Work/life boundaries
Shedding the helper, advocate, performer, or managerial role in personal relationships
Personal motivations underneath career choice
You’re a person, too!
Overcoming burnout isn’t just about doing the right breathing techniques or exercising enough. It’s not just about changing your mindset and saying the right affirmations to yourself. It’s not all about your neurotransmitters or your dysregulated nervous system either.
It’s multifaceted. I’m sure you’ve tried one or many of the above solutions — to your short-term benefit.
I won’t give you simple or quick fixes that will fail you long-term. Instead, I help you look at the roots of where you get hooked into this cycle. I listen past all the noise that guilt, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and hustle culture whisper into your ear and move straight towards the complex tangle of strong body sensations, emotions, experiences, and beliefs — personal and systemic — that grip you from within. And I will face it with you.
I use an integration of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, Somatic Internal Family Systems, and relational EMDR to help people break through the persistent dysfunctional beliefs and behaviors that fuel and sustain your patterns of anxiety.
In session with me…
You’ll be invited into a curious and exploratory headspace.
You’ll get compassion and challenge in the right places.
You’ll receive understanding and nonjudgment for the way your brain works under stress.
And I’ll push your own edge of dysfunction with truths and practical how-tos— in a kinder way than you might expect.
We will dig deeply into the logic of your burnout, find and feel into your stuck points, and
repattern them together.
Therapy for burnout can help you…
Experience quiet and deliberateness in your thoughts
Reclaim your identity and personhood outside of your professional role
Value the stuff life is made of — slowness, rest, play, patience, and repetition — not just theoretically but also emotionally and in practice
Relax with your loved ones and do your hobbies guilt-free
Unchain yourself mentally and physically from what you “should” be doing or what others want you to do
Approaches
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Somatic Internal Family Systems
Somatic Internal Family Systems helps you heal your relationship with challenging and wounded parts of yourself.
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EMDR
Bilateral stimulation can help you process through beliefs and sensations that were formed out of disturbing and overwhelming events in your past.
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Therapy Intensives
Extended sessions for a deep and focused working through of depressive patterns.
It’s time to reclaim your life.
FAQs about Therapy for Burnout
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If you’re sensing that you need consistency over time to build the awareness, momentum, and trust in the process that is necessary to break through the patterns that sustain your burnout, I recommend meeting weekly or biweekly.
If you have the motivation, awareness of your negative cycles with work, and the trust in your own readiness to break through burnout, I recommend meeting for an intensive to make significant progress fast. Read more about EMDR Intensives and Somatic IFS Intensives here.
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If working through burnout with a previous therapist came to no benefit, it might have been the wrong therapist or approach. Your readiness for transformation might have been limited due to the fit with your provider being not quite right.
You can certainly try again with another therapist – with three key considerations.
First, the therapeutic fit between you and your mental health provider is the personal foundation for you truly benefitting from therapy. If you feel that we’re a good fit, follow that feeling. And throughout therapy, if there are fluctuations in that feeling, voice that — I want to hear it and work through it with you!
The therapeutic approach for burnout treatment is your technical foundation for improving depression. I use relational, humanistic, body-based, and bottom-up approaches in depression treatment. These are different from behavioral or cognitive approaches. Read more about EMDR and Somatic Internal Family Systems here.
It takes your honest effort. It gets easier to invest your honest effort into therapy when you feel solid in both of the above factors.
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There is no universal timeline for when you will no longer need therapy for burnout.
People experiencing burnout carry psychological, physical, and emotional processes that have them bypassing so many fundamental processes.
Committing to the process, having patience for the fine details in your process, and targeting the smallest details that influence everything in your daily life IS the therapy.
If slowing down or sounds impossible, you might be exactly who I’m talking to.
And, paradoxically — slowing down can happen faster than you imagine.
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Email or call me to schedule a consultation to discuss your current goals with me. If we’re a good fit, we’ll set up a first session.