Find help for —
Burnout and overwhelm
When rest stops working and you cannot say why.
Therapy for burnout and overwhelm, in Bristol and online. Usually for people who are still, technically, coping.
First call
Free · 15 minutes
Sessions
50 minutes, weekly
Fee
£85
Format
In person or online
01 — What this can look like
Not a diagnosis
Most people recognise three or four of these.
Burnout rarely arrives as a collapse. It arrives as competence that costs a little more every week.
Sunday evening starts on Saturday.
A whole holiday no longer resets you.
You cannot remember the last thing you enjoyed.
You are short with the people you like most.
You are efficient at work and useless at home.
You keep going because stopping feels worse.
Still coping is not the same as still fine.
03 — How we work with it
Three ways in, depending on what is running you.
You don’t need to know which one you want. Working that out is part of the first conversation.
Cognitive Behavioural
When the standards are the problem
We look at the rules you are working to — often ones nobody actually set — and what it would cost to lower exactly one of them.
Acceptance and Commitment
When you cannot stop
We work out what you are protecting by not stopping, and whether it still needs protecting at this price.
Compassion-Focused
When rest feels like failing
For people who can only rest once they are ill. We look at why permission has to arrive from somewhere else.
04 — How I work
Four principles
The first session is mostly listening.
Nothing is decided in advance, and you can stop after any point. This is the shape it usually takes for burnout.
01
The free call
Fifteen minutes to say what is happening in your own words. No notes are taken and nothing follows unless you want it to.
Phone or video
02
Session one
We map where the load actually falls in your week, rather than where you assume it does.
50 minutes
03
Weeks two to six
We protect one thing in your week rather than redesigning your life. Sleep and irritability usually move first.
Usually weekly
04
Reviewing it
Around session six we look honestly at whether this is helping, and decide together what happens next.
Openly, not by default
First call
Free · 15 minutes
Session
50 minutes
Fee
£85
05 — Questions about anxiety
Before the first call
Things people ask me about anxiety
If yours isn’t here, just ask me on the call.
06 — Related reading
From the journal
