Find relief from constant internal pressure.

Feeling Like You’re Never Doing Enough?

Sometimes, what looks like ambition or high achievement can actually feel like a constant internal burden. You might:

  • strive relentlessly

  • replay mistakes in your mind, or

  • push yourself harder than anyone else even notices

That’s perfectionism - and therapy can you understand where it comes from and find another way to live.

Perfectionism often hides beneath competence and drive. Some of the ways you might experience it:

  • You tie your worth to what you achieve, how well you perform, or how productive you are.

  • Mistakes haunt you — even small ones — and you focus on “what could have been better.”

  • You spend excessive time preparing, planning, or double-checking your work.

  • You avoid starting things unless you’re sure they’ll be “perfect.”

  • Saying “good enough” feels deeply uncomfortable, or even irresponsible.

  • You feel guilty when you rest because you could be doing “something more.”

  • Despite external success, you may feel like an imposter, or like nothing you do is ever good enough.

What Perfectionism Feels Like

How Therapy Helps with Burnout & Stress Management

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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.