Work Stress & Burnout Therapy
When success feels like slow drowning
You're good at your job. Really good. That's the problem. Because being good means more responsibility, more expectations, more messages at midnight that need responding to. You used to feel energised by the work. Now you feel like you're running on fumes.
People tell you to set boundaries, take breaks, learn to switch off. As if you hadn't thought of that. As if you could just decide not to care whether things fall apart.
Most approaches to burnout focus on time management. Do less. Delegate more. Take a holiday. But you've tried that and here you are again, three weeks later, back in the same hole.
Burnout usually isn't about having too much to do. It's about what work means to you. Maybe achievement is how you prove worth. Maybe staying busy keeps you from feeling things you don't want to feel. Maybe you learned early that being needed is the only reliable way to matter.
Psychodynamic therapy is interested in why you can't stop. What you're trying to prove, or escape, or earn. Once you understand the deeper drive, you can start making different choices. Not because you should, but because you actually want to.
We meet weekly or twice-weekly and explore what work is doing for you beyond the obvious. Not to judge it, but to understand it.
Maybe you're chasing something that can't be caught. Maybe you're trying to outrun a feeling that follows you anyway. Maybe you're living out someone else's definition of success and haven't noticed yet.
The work is to find what actually matters to you underneath all the should. Not what looks impressive, not what pays well, not what your parents wanted. What you actually want, once you learn to hear yourself again.