Burnout, Performance, & Balance
Therapy to help you perform at a high level, without losing yourself in the process.
What is Burnout?
Burnout isn’t weakness or lack of motivation. It’s a stress response system that’s been overloaded for too long.
According to leading burnout researchers Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter, burnout develops when there is a chronic mismatch between you and your environment in areas like workload, control, reward, community, fairness, and values.
When these mismatches persist, your mind and body begin to send distress signals across three dimensions of burnout: emotional exhaustion, detachment, and loss of accomplishment.
Burnout doesn’t mean you failed. It means your internal and external systems are out of alignment, and therapy is where we can start recalibrating them.
You might notice:
Physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion that rest doesn’t fix
Detachment or cynicism toward your work, goals, or relationships
Reduced sense of accomplishment, feeling like your efforts no longer matter
Difficulty concentrating or staying motivated despite wanting to do well
Guilt for slowing down or saying no, even when you’re running on empty
How Therapy Can Help
My work combines performance psychology, systemic therapy, and evidence-based interventions to help you rebuild sustainable performance from the inside out.
Performance Psychology
Drawing from research on self-regulation, attentional control, and recovery cycles, we focus on:
Understanding the relationship between pressure and performance
Learning strategies to sustain energy and focus without overtraining the mind
Applying recovery principles used in elite performance fields to everyday stress management
Systemic Therapy
Grounded in family systems and relational research, systemic therapy looks beyond the individual to understand how our environment shapes our wellbeing. We focus on:
Identifying relational and environmental patterns that maintain stress
Clarifying roles, expectations, and boundaries that influence emotional health
Restructuring communication and support systems to create environments that promote recovery and stability
Evidence-Based Therapies
These approaches help you respond to stress more flexibly and intentionally so that performance becomes sustainable instead of depleting. We integrate tools from:
ACT: learning to accept difficult emotions, clarify values, and take aligned action
DBT: building emotion-regulation, distress-tolerance, interpersonal, and mindfulness skills
CBT: identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing new ways of thinking and responding
What We Work On
Reconnecting with purpose: rediscovering motivation rooted in values, not pressure
Regulating your nervous system: learning recovery skills that calm the body and reset focus
Managing perfectionism: challenging all-or-nothing thinking and guilt about rest
Preventing relapse into burnout: learning early warning signs and recovery habits
Setting boundaries that hold: saying yes and no with clarity and self-respect
Building supportive systems: reshaping habits, relationships, and routines to sustain wellbeing
Rates & Accessibility
Getting support shouldn’t feel out of reach. Here’s an overview of current rates and options.
Standard rate: $120 per 50-minute session
Student rate: $60 per 50-minute session (for currently enrolled, full-time undergraduate, graduate, or professional students)
A limited number of reduced-rate openings are also available through Open Path Collective.
If cost is a concern, please mention it during your consultation. We’ll explore options that make care accessible.