Professional Burnout

Therapy to help you reclaim your peace

Is This You?

More often than not, are you experiencing:

  • Persistent exhaustion
  • Cynicism and detachment
  • A sense of inefficacy
  • Dread, reluctance, or anxiety
  • Irritability or wanting to be left alone
  • Feelings of helplessness or hopelessness

Unfortunately, there are plenty of reasons to be feeling this way, but one of them might be professional burnout.

If you find yourself isolating professionally, taking longer to complete simple tasks, procrastinating habitually, working through lunches, using holiday and sick time to just get away from work, or even using food, alcohol, or cannabis to deal with work stress, it's likely you're experiencing professional burnout. 

A machine can only run on fumes for so long before it breaks down. Without addressing the issues, you may eventually find yourself dealing with long-term weakened immunity, sleep issues, and chronic health problems. 

How Therapy Can Help

Escape the Cycle

If you're stuck in the cycle of burnout, our work together can give you your life back. We'll examine how you're caught in the stress cycle and create strategies to give your nervous system a break.
Therapy for burnout will likely incorporate pinpointing the stressors you encounter regularly, creating a personalized self-care plan beyond the scope of what social media would have you believe is self-care, and learning how to set and maintain boundaries that keep you well.
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Why work with Megan?

Burnout, specifically workplace burnout, is an issue near to my heart. I've worked in physically and mentally demanding spaces from special-ed alternative school to community mental health agency. I've faced working in places that ask the impossible while providing next to no support.

My focus is on practical strategies for folks in anything from a demanding career to demeaning day-jobs. We will collaborate to identify aspects within your control from a strengths-based perspective to create realistic plans for situations that aren't. We'll focus on sustainability for your future.

Modalities

These are some of the therapeutic modalities and theories that inform my practice. Therapy will be tailored to your personalized goals.

Therapy Lenses

These are the main therapeutic perspectives I utilize when working with neurodiverse clients.

Everyone has strengths. It would be a waste to ignore them when figuring out how to find creative solutions.  I will focus on identifying and building upon a client's existing positive attributes, skills, and resources. I aim to promote resilience  and empowerment. Much of mental health treatment focuses on pathology, I prefer to focus on strengths.

I work from the belief that the client is the expert on their own life. I provide therapy that is free from judgement and full of unconditional positive regard. I view therapy as a collaborative process rather than an expert-centered relationship.

I believe that everyone actively creates their own realities through their unique beliefs and experiences. Through this lens, my goal is to help clients find new meaning and develop healthier narratives about their struggles that can help lead to a new sense of empowerment and control in one's life.

Types of Therapy

This is not an exhaustive list, but it is a good snapshot of what I will bring to your therapy experience.

Coherence Therapy is a lesser talked about type of therapy which utilizes memory reconsolidation, not unlike EMDR, to help clients find congruency between their logical knowings and emotional knowings. It relies on symptom coherence, or a full understanding of why an issue is not only harmful, but also helpful to the person. While often used for trauma, it can be helpful in exploring the underlying beliefs and stuckness for people struggling with procrastination and motivation.  You can read more about Coherence Therapy here.  

Existential therapy works from a few different principles, however a core concept is the belief that meaning in life is something we make, not something inherent to living. It also emphasizes the paradoxes between our freedom to choose vs need to take responsibility for our choices,  and aloneness vs desire for connections. These themes are often crucial to understanding the feelings behind a person's burnout.

IFS, sometimes referred to as "parts work" can be used to compassionately conceptualize the many different parts of us that may be in conflict with each other. When examining burnout, you may find parts resembling a perfectionist, a procrastinator, or an strong inner critic. A core goal of IFS is to create a harmonious system between all parts and the core Self. 

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