Burnout Therapy in Los Angeles

When You're Running on Empty

You've pushed through exhaustion before. You've told yourself you just need to get through this week, this project, this season. But the exhaustion isn't lifting. The things that used to energize you feel like obligations. And somewhere along the way, "powering through" stopped working. Burnout happens when the demands on you exceed your resources for too long. The good news is that you don't have to quit your job or make drastic changes to start feeling like yourself again.

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It’s More Than Being Tired

Burnout has a way of making you doubt yourself. You wonder why everyone else seems to manage just fine. You feel guilty for struggling when, on paper, your life looks good. You may have even tried taking time off, only to find that time away didn't fix anything.

You might be here because:

  • You're exhausted no matter how much you rest, and even small tasks feel overwhelming

  • You've become cynical or detached from work that used to matter to you

  • You're irritable, anxious, or emotionally flat in ways that don't feel like you

  • You're a high achiever who's always pushed hard, and now you've hit a wall

  • You're a caregiver (for children, aging parents, or clients) and you have nothing left for yourself

  • You know something needs to change, but you feel too depleted to figure out what

Common Signs & Symptoms

You don't need to have all of these. Burnout exists on a spectrum.

Mental and Emotional Symptoms:

  • Feeling cynical, detached, or hopeless about work

  • Loss of motivation or sense of purpose

  • Irritability or emotional numbness

  • Difficulty concentrating or making decisions

  • Mental fog or reduced creativity

Physical Symptoms:

  • Chronic fatigue that sleep doesn't fix

  • Frequent headaches, muscle tension, or illness

  • Changes in sleep or appetite

  • Feeling physically heavy or slow

Understanding burnout

More Than Just Stress

Everyone feels stressed sometimes. Burnout is different. It's a state of chronic physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion that develops when stress persists without adequate recovery. Over time, it affects your ability to function, your sense of self, and even your health.

High-functioning burnout in perfectionists often looks like maintaining a polished exterior while falling apart inside. You keep hitting deadlines and showing up, but you're running on fumes and your inner critic has become relentless.

Caregiver burnout develops when you're constantly attending to others' needs (children, aging parents, patients, clients) without replenishing yourself. The emotional labor is invisible, but the depletion is real.

ADHD burnout can look like hitting a wall after years of masking, compensating, and working twice as hard to keep up. The strategies that used to work stop working, and exhaustion takes over.

Entrepreneur burnout comes from wearing every hat, having no separation between work and life, and feeling like the entire operation depends on you.

Our Method

How We Treat Burnout

We use evidence-based approaches to help you break the burnout cycle and build sustainable patterns for work and life.

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY

CBT focuses on the connection between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Together, we explore how beliefs like "I have to do everything perfectly" or "Saying no means I'm letting people down" contribute to chronic overextension. We identify specific thought patterns that fuel burnout and build practical skills around boundaries, delegation, and protecting your energy. Most people notice improvement within 10-20 sessions.

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

AEDP is a trauma-informed, attachment-based approach that helps you heal by safely experiencing and processing emotions. Burnout often has deeper roots: beliefs about self-worth, patterns from family of origin, or difficulty receiving support. AEDP creates space to work through these emotional layers, supporting lasting change rather than just symptom management.

the difference

What Makes Our Approach Different

Burnout often affects people who are used to being capable, productive, and in control. Coming to therapy means recognizing that the way you've been operating isn't sustainable, and together we can try something different.

We'll work collaboratively. We're not here to tell you to quit your job. We're here to help you understand what got you here, what's keeping you stuck, and what actually needs to change. Sometimes that's practical: boundaries, workload, self-care. Sometimes it's deeper: beliefs about your worth, patterns from your family of origin. Usually it's both.

beyond getting through it

Building a Sustainable Life

The goal isn't just to feel less exhausted, though that matters. It's to build a life that doesn't require you to run on empty. Many clients find that burnout recovery becomes an unexpected opportunity to reassess what they actually want, set boundaries they've needed for years, and develop a more sustainable relationship with work and achievement.

the process

What to Expect

Getting Started

We begin with a free 15-minute consultation call. You'll share a bit about what you're experiencing, and I'll answer questions about how we work. There's no pressure to commit. It's just a conversation to see if this feels like the right fit.

The work

Sessions are 50 minutes, typically weekly. Early sessions often focus on stabilization, helping you find some relief and build coping strategies so you can function better day-to-day. From there, we explore the patterns that contributed to burnout and work on sustainable changes.

Timeline

Burnout recovery varies. Some clients feel significant relief in 12 sessions as they implement boundaries and shift patterns. Others, especially those dealing with long-standing perfectionism or workplace trauma, benefit from longer-term work. Without intervention, burnout tends to persist or worsen. With support, most people move through recovery within several months.

FAQ

Common Questions about Burnout

  • Yes. While some situations are truly unsustainable, many people recover while staying in their current role. Recovery often involves changing how you work (setting boundaries, adjusting expectations, addressing internal patterns) rather than where you work. We'll figure out what's realistic for your situation.

  • There's significant overlap, and burnout can lead to depression if left unaddressed. The key difference is that burnout is usually tied to a specific context (work, caregiving) and improves when that context changes. Depression tends to be more pervasive. That said, many people experience both. We'll sort out what's happening for you and tailor the approach accordingly.

  • Absolutely. Overcoming burnout in high achievers often requires addressing the very patterns that made you successful: perfectionism, overworking, difficulty delegating. These aren't flaws, but they can become unsustainable. Therapy helps you keep your drive while building in the recovery and boundaries you need.

  • Sometimes it is. If your workplace is toxic, the demands are truly unreasonable, or there's a fundamental values mismatch, no amount of boundary-setting will fix that. Part of our work may involve helping you get clarity on whether to stay or go, and supporting you through that transition if needed.

  • It depends on how long you've been burned out, what's driving it, and how much you're able to implement changes. Most people start feeling meaningful relief within a few months. Full recovery, including addressing the underlying patterns, often takes longer. We'll track progress together and adjust as needed.

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