Executive burnout therapy

Burnout therapy for executives who can't afford to stop.

You don't need a sabbatical or a year of open ended talk. You need a direct, evidence based plan for getting your energy, judgment, and presence back — without stepping away from the work.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist (Psy.D.) 16+ years in practice Telehealth in 40 states
What executive burnout actually looks like

Not collapse. Erosion.

Executive burnout hides inside competence. The performance holds; the person underneath pays for it. That's treatable.

  • 01Decisions that used to take minutes now circle in your head for days.
  • 02You're managing your reputation in meetings instead of leading them.
  • 03Recovery stopped working: weekends, vacations, and sleep no longer reset you.
  • 04The irritability lands on the people who least deserve it, at home.
How burnout treatment works

Built like a turnaround, not a retreat.

Burnout is not a character flaw and it is not cured by willpower. It's a pattern of depletion with identifiable drivers — and treatment targets the drivers, not just the symptoms.

01

Diagnose the real drivers

A whole person assessment of sleep, energy, workload, relationships, and the assumptions you run on. Burnout, anxiety, and depression overlap; we establish precisely what we're treating.

02

Interrupt the pattern

Targeted, evidence based strategies for the specific behaviors keeping you depleted — including the ones that built your career and now quietly run it into the ground.

03

Rebuild capacity that lasts

Restore the energy, focus, and presence to lead at work and actually show up at home — with safeguards so you can see the next slide coming before it costs you.

Most clients leave the first session with something they can use that same week.

Burnout and anxiety overlap more often than not. If what you are carrying reads as constant worry and a mind that will not switch off rather than depletion, see anxiety therapy.

When burnout reaches your marriage

The people at home notice before your board does.

Burnout is usually detected at home first. Work still gets a functioning version of you, because work is where the consequences are immediate. What is left over goes to the people who will forgive you for it, and they absorb it quietly until they cannot.

01

Present but unreachable

You are at dinner and still running the meeting. Your family gets the body and not the attention, and the difference is obvious to everyone but you.

02

Irritability standing in for exhaustion

Depletion rarely announces itself as sadness in high performers. It shows up as a short fuse over small things — the tone that surprises you afterwards, and that your partner has started to anticipate.

03

A marriage running on maintenance

Logistics get handled. Connection does not. The partnership becomes a well-run operation that neither of you particularly enjoys being inside.

When burnout has become the couple's problem rather than only yours, couples therapy is often the more direct route. If the recovery is happening alongside a bigger decision — a role change, an exit, a move — see life transitions. If the way you are managing the load has started to involve drinking or another habit you would rather not examine, that belongs in habits and addiction.

Common questions

Answers for people who research before they commit.

Burnout vs. depression

Is this burnout, or something more?

They share symptoms and often coexist, but they're treated differently. Part of the first session is making that call accurately — by a doctoral level clinician, not a quiz.

Time commitment

How long does burnout treatment take?

This is not open ended therapy. We work in focused, practical blocks, and most clients feel measurable movement within the first several sessions.

Telehealth

Does video therapy actually work for burnout?

For this work, yes — outcomes from research on telehealth match in person care, and it fits a calendar that doesn't have ninety spare minutes for a commute.

Privacy

Who will know I’m in therapy?

No one, unless you tell them. Sessions are by secure video, out of network, and entirely confidential. Many clients prefer it that way for exactly the reasons you'd expect.

Getting started

Start with a free conversation.

I offer a free 15 minute consultation call to talk through what's going on and clarify whether I'm the right person to help. No cost, and no pressure.

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