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Therapy for Stress & Burnout in California

you’re tired of being the strong one

You're doing all the work — for your family, your job, your friends — and no one notices until you stop.

There's always one more thing, and "later" never actually comes. You can't remember the last time you did something just because you wanted to.

You’re allowed to slow down and speak up for what you need.

i’m here for you

You've tried taking breaks. Maybe you've even taken a vacation. But there’s something inside that won't let you stop. That voice that says everyone's counting on you. The guilt when you say no. The fear that if you stop holding it all together, everything falls apart.

Burnout isn't just about doing too much — it's about the beliefs underneath that make rest feel dangerous, selfish, or impossible. You’ve learned that your worth depends on how much you do, that asking for help means you've failed, that other people's feelings matter more than yours.

How I Help

Therapy for stress and burnout can help you figure out why you keep ending up here — and how to actually change the pattern instead of just coping with it.

We'll start by slowing down enough to notice what's happening in your body and your mind when the overwhelm kicks in. What does it feel like right before you say yes when you mean no? What happens inside when you imagine disappointing someone?

We'll trace those feelings back — gently — to figure out where they came from and what they're trying to protect you from. Not abstract analysis. Real moments. Real patterns. The experiences that taught you your needs don't matter, or that slowing down is dangerous.

You'll learn to recognize the early warning signs of the spiral before you're completely buried. We'll build tools that actually fit your brain and your life — ways to interrupt the pattern in the moment, strategies for saying no that don't leave you drowning in guilt, experiments with rest that don't require blowing up your whole life.

And we'll keep checking: What's working? What's not? What do you actually need right now — not what you "should" need, but what would actually help? This isn't one-size-fits-all. It's specific to you, your nervous system, your history, your life as it actually is.

What it’s like to work with me

I won't tell you to just relax and set better boundaries.

We'll map out your specific burnout cycle — what kicks it off, how it escalates, where you lose the ability to pump the brakes. You'll learn to recognize the early warning signs before you're completely underwater: the moment when "one more thing" tips into drowning, the physical sensations that show up right before you say yes when you mean no.

We'll work directly with the guilt and fear that make boundaries feel impossible. Not just "practice saying no" — but understanding what that guilt is actually about and how to make decisions without it running the show.

You'll figure out what rest actually means for you — what your nervous system needs to recover, what recharging looks like when you have kids, a demanding job, a brain that doesn't work like the self-care advice assumes.

And we'll build a plan for when the spiral starts again — because it will. What do you do in that moment to course-correct before you're back in crisis mode?

imagine…

Making guilt-free decisions with confidence

✓

Based on what you actually have capacity for, not what you're afraid will happen if you disappoint someone.

Having energy left to do what you want to do

✓

Not just doing things to make the guilt go away and then feeling resentful or depleted afterward.

Knowing what's yours to carry — and what isn't.

✓

Letting go of the responsibilities you've been holding that were never yours in the first place.

FAQs

frequently asked questions about therapy for burnout & Stress

Yes, because here's the reality: burnout doesn't get better on its own.
Not addressing it costs more time and energy than treatment does — when you're running on fumes, working twice as hard to do half as much, and spending your nights and weekends trying to recover just enough to survive the next week.
Sessions are 50 minutes. We can work around your schedule.
If weekly therapy feels impossible to sustain, I also offer EMDR intensives — concentrated healing work done in longer sessions over a shorter timeframe.
Explore intensives here.
Either way the work we do directly targets the thing eating all your time and energy: the burnout itself.
Most therapy for burnout focuses on symptoms — stress management, coping skills, time management, self-care. Those things can help in the moment, but they don't address why the pattern keeps repeating.
We focus on the root: the beliefs, the early experiences, the relational patterns that make rest feel impossible. Why you can't say no. Why you feel guilty when you're not doing something for someone else. Why slowing down feels dangerous.
When you address that, the rest starts to shift on its own.
I'm not going to tell you to quit your job, set firm boundaries with everyone, or take a month off to "find yourself." That's not realistic for most people, and it's not how this works.
We work with what's actually possible in your life right now. Small shifts. Experiments. Learning to recognize what's driving the overwhelm so you can make different choices when you have room to make them.
The goal isn't to blow up your life. It's to make your life more sustainable from the inside out.
No. I have ADHD too. I know what it's like when the standard advice doesn't fit your brain.
Time management is genuinely hard with ADHD — not a character flaw or a discipline problem. And burnout with ADHD often looks different: you're exhausted from compensating, from working twice as hard to appear "normal," from managing the internal chaos on top of everything external.
I work with how your brain actually works, not how it "should" work. We figure out what you need — accommodations, not willpower. Understanding, not criticism.