Burnout Therapy for High-Achieving Women

Stress is usually tied to something specific in your life. For example, it could be related to a deadline, a project, or a busy season, and it tends to ease when that situation changes. Burnout is different. It's a state of chronic depletion that doesn't resolve when the stressor goes away. The hallmarks are emotional exhaustion, growing cynicism or detachment from work, and a persistent feeling that you're not effective no matter how hard you try. If you've been telling yourself you just need to get through this month for six months straight, that's not stress. That's burnout.

Yes, and this surprises a lot of people. You can be genuinely passionate about your career and still be burned out. People who care deeply about their work are often more vulnerable to burnout precisely because they give so much. Caring about your work doesn't protect you from what happens when you give more than you can recover from.

It depends on how long the burnout has been building and what's driving it. Many clients notice a real shift within the first four to eight weeks. They may experience more clarity, better sleep, and less dread or the “Sunday Scaries.” Deeper change, the kind that affects how you relate to work and your own worth, typically develops over three to six months. There's no fixed finish line, but there are real milestones you'll feel along the way.

It tends to do the opposite. Burnout quietly erodes the focus, creativity, and judgment that make you effective. Recovery doesn't dampen your drive; it restores it. Most clients find they're more focused and more strategic after doing this work, not less. The goal is to keep your ambition, not scale it back.

Then we work with what’s real. Therapy focuses on reducing the internal pressure, decision overload, and boundary breakdown that makes everything feel urgent all the time.

Not at all. You don't have to hit rock bottom to deserve support. The earlier we start, the more we can work proactively rather than in recovery mode. If something feels off, that's enough of a reason to reach out.

There is real overlap. Burnout, anxiety, and perfectionism are deeply connected, and working on one tends to help with the others. Burnout therapy focuses specifically on the exhaustion and recovery cycle, and on the relationship with work and identity that keeps it going.

If anxious self-talk or perfectionistic tendencies turn out to be the primary drivers, we adjust accordingly using techniques from anxiety therapy and/or perfectionism therapy. Most clients end up working on all three in some form.

Yes. Founder burnout has its own unique set of pressures. The responsibility never fully turns off, the uncertainty is constant, and your sense of self gets tangled up in how the business is doing. We work on untangling that, building in real recovery, and helping you lead in a way that doesn't require running on empty. If you are an entrepreneur, therapy for business owners focused on burnout may be what you are looking for.

Yes. I've built my entire practice around women in high-performance and offer therapy for women in male-dominated fields. I understand the invisible labor, the pressure to prove yourself over and over, the imposter syndrome that sticks around even after years of real success. You won't spend our sessions explaining your industry to me. We can get to the actual work faster.

Yes. The research supports it, and, practically speaking, it tends to work well for busy professionals because it removes the friction that gets in the way of showing up consistently. No commute, no rearranging your schedule around an office. You just show up and do the work.

Sessions are 50 minutes long and held on a secure telehealth platform. In the early sessions, we focus on understanding your history, your current situation, and what you want to change. From there, we build a work rhythm tailored to your goals. It's a real back-and-forth, as you're an active part of figuring out what will work for you.

I provide virtual burnout therapy throughout Massachusetts, New York, Colorado, Vermont, and Florida. This includes major metro areas like Boston, New York City, Denver, Burlington, and Miami, as well as surrounding areas. Because sessions are fully online, you can attend from your home, office, or anywhere private within those states.