“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
The Ignite Method
Burnout isn’t a lack of willpower. It’s a mismatch between what’s expected of you and what your current system makes possible. The Ignite Method offers a structured, evidence-informed process for rebuilding balance so you can perform well and live well.
Rooted in performance psychology, behavioral science, and systemic therapy, this framework supports stress regulation, recovery, and meaningful change across every layer of your life.
How It Works
1) Assess: Identify the fire.
We begin by understanding what’s fueling your burnout and what’s running low. Using insights from stress-recovery research and burnout assessment frameworks, we look at:
Workload, perfectionism, and performance pressures
Recovery patterns (e.g., sleep, rest, focus, and physiological strain)
Relational and environmental factors that influence stress
This phase builds awareness that lays the foundation for intentional change.
2) Stabilize: Contain the fire.
Before rebuilding, it’s essential to restore stability. This stage centers on nervous-system regulation and boundary setting, using approaches drawn from:
ACT, DBT, and CBT: grounding, defusion, and distress-tolerance skills
Performance psychology: recovery cycles and arousal regulation
Systemic therapy: restructuring environments that reinforce over-functioning
We focus on developing tools that help you return to a calmer, more balanced baseline so you can think and act from steadiness rather than survival.
3) Align. Fuel the fire.
Once there’s stability, we shift toward rebuilding motivation, meaning, and healthy relationships. Therapy in this phase supports you in:
Exploring what genuinely energizes you rather than depleting you
Reconnecting goals with your core values and relationships
Replacing guilt-driven effort with purpose-driven direction
This phase focuses on realignment rather than perfection, helping you move toward sustainable motivation and self-defined success.
4) Sustain. Tend the fire.
Lasting change requires rhythm and consistency. This phase emphasizes habit formation, self-regulation, and environmental design, helping you maintain progress over time. Together, we focus on:
Creating maintenance rituals
Building feedback systems for signs of overload or conflict
Strengthening relationships and routines that reinforce balance
Sustainability isn’t about having no problems. It’s about knowing how to respond when challenges arise.
How This Approach Helps
The Ignite Method integrates established psychological principles and research-based strategies shown to support wellbeing and performance, including:
Cognitive and behavioral tools to improve focus and flexibility
Emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to reduce stress reactivity
Values-based work to strengthen motivation and direction
Systemic awareness to realign environments and relationships that contribute to burnout
While every person’s process is unique, this framework provides structure, collaboration, and a path toward sustainable change.
Ready to reignite your fire?
You don’t have to keep running on empty. With the right framework, you can build focus, connection, and energy that lasts.
Let’s assess where your fire stands and start tending it together.