Learn to thrive—not just push through.

Burnout isn’t just “a busy season” or “a stressful week.”

Burnout is a chronic state of emotional, mental, and physical depletion that happens when you push yourself long past your limits—often while still appearing strong and composed to everyone around you.

Over time, burnout becomes a cycle of exhaustion → guilt → overworking → more exhaustion, leaving you feeling stuck between wanting rest and fearing what will happen if you slow down.

If your value has always been tied to doing, producing, or performing, it makes sense that slowing down feels threatening. Burnout isn’t a failure—it’s a signal that something in your internal system is asking for support.

For many, burnout shows up quietly at first:

  • You wake up tired even after a full night of sleep.

  • You snap at people you care about.

  • You dread work—even the parts you used to enjoy.

  • You can’t relax because your mind never stops planning, analyzing, or worrying.

  • Your productivity drops, and your self-trust drops with it.

Burnout affects not only your work, but your relationships, your ability to rest, and your confidence in yourself.

Signs You May Be Experiencing Burnout

Therapy can help you understand the roots of burnout, untangle the habits that keep you overworked or overwhelmed, and rebuild a healthier relationship with rest, productivity, and yourself.

How Therapy Helps With Burnout & Stress Management

1. Identify What’s Driving Burnout Beneath the Surface

Using an Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed approach, we explore the internal “parts” that keep you pushing past your limits.

Together, we:

  • Explore the fears beneath the pressure to perform

  • Reduce self-criticism and increase compassion

  • Build resilience without relying on overworking

When these protective parts feel supported, your system can finally relax.

2. Build Sustainable Strategies for Stress Management

Therapy helps you create realistic, long-term strategies such as:

  • Setting boundaries that actually hold

  • Managing emotional exhaustion

  • Breaking the cycle of overthinking

  • Prioritizing tasks without guilt

  • Separating identity from productivity

  • Creating rest routines that feel safe—not selfish

These strategies help you regain clarity, energy, and purpose.

3. Rebuild a Healthier Relationship With Productivity

Burnout often develops because your nervous system believes slowing down is unsafe.

Together, we help you:

  • Redefine “success” in a way that supports your well-being

  • Learn how to say “no” without spiraling into guilt

  • Delegate without fear

  • Release the internal pressure to do more, be more, achieve more

The goal isn’t to make you “less ambitious”—it’s to help you achieve from a grounded, sustainable place.

You Don’t Have to Push Through Burnout Alone

Burnout is not a personal failure—it’s a sign your mind and body are asking for a different way forward.

Therapy can help you recalibrate, recharge, and reconnect with a version of yourself that feels balanced, steady, and whole.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Burnout is more than feeling temporarily overwhelmed — it’s a chronic state of exhaustion, irritability, and disconnection that doesn’t resolve with a weekend off. If you’re noticing ongoing fatigue, decreased motivation, cynicism, or trouble focusing, it may be burnout. Therapy can help you understand what’s driving these patterns and how to create sustainable change.

  • Burnout therapy is especially helpful for busy, high-achieving professionals, including those in corporate roles, finance, healthcare, education, creative fields, and leadership positions. I work with clients across Center City, Rittenhouse, Logan Square, Fairmount, and South Philly who feel overwhelmed, depleted, or pulled in too many directions.

  • Burnout therapy focuses on understanding the internal patterns that keep you overworking or overthinking. Using an Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed approach, we identify the parts of you — such as the Perfectionist or Striver — that push you past your limits. We then develop practical, sustainable strategies to rebuild balance, confidence, and clarity.

  • Many clients begin feeling shifts within a few weeks as they learn to reconnect with their needs, set boundaries, and reduce self-criticism. Full recovery takes time, especially if burnout has been present for years, but therapy provides structured support and tools to help you feel more grounded, energized, and aligned.

  • You don’t need to quit your job or drastically change your life to heal from burnout. Therapy helps you create micro-adjustments — clearer boundaries, strategic rest, realistic goals, and reduced internal pressure — that fit the demands of your work environment. My background in Corporate Finance allows me to offer tools that are practical and realistic for professionals.

  • Absolutely. Burnout is often fueled by perfectionism, people-pleasing, and difficulty resting. Therapy helps you understand why these patterns developed and how to shift them without losing your ambition or work ethic. Many clients who struggle with burnout also see improvements in anxiety, self-worth, and emotional resilience.

  • The first step is scheduling a consultation to explore what you’re experiencing and how therapy can help. During our initial meeting, we’ll discuss your goals, stressors, and internal patterns so you can begin moving toward clarity, calm, and sustainable change.