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Burnout is not a productivity problem

The exhaustion is real, and so is the part of you that keeps agreeing to more.

Burnout usually arrives after a long stretch of doing the responsible thing. You met the deadline, covered the gap, held the team together, answered at eleven at night. Then somewhere along the way the work stopped giving anything back and the tank never refilled between weeks.

The advice you'll have already heard, boundaries, sleep hygiene, a hobby, is not wrong, it is just downstream. What tends to matter more is why saying no feels dangerous, what you believe would happen if you eased off, and whose expectations you're actually carrying. Those questions have roots that go back further than this job.

An hour walking outdoors, away from a desk, is a useful place to think about a life organized around a desk. We look at what needs to change structurally, what needs to change internally, and which one is actually available to you right now.

Still water at golden hour, ringed by oaks in the East Bay hills

Sessions happen on public trails and paths. Nothing clinical, nothing performative , just two people walking and talking.

What it tends to look like

Familiar? None of it is a diagnosis.

  • Sunday

    The dread starts earlier in the weekend every month.

  • Cynicism

    Work you once cared about now reads as pointless or absurd.

  • Recovery

    A week off helps for about two days after you return.

  • Spillover

    The people at home are getting the depleted version of you.

How we work with it

No protocol imposed from the outside.

  1. 01Telling the difference between an unsustainable job and an unsustainable relationship with work
  2. 02Tracing where the 'always available' setting was installed
  3. 03Practical rehearsal for the conversations you've been avoiding
  4. 04Rebuilding a pace that survives a normal, unheroic week

Questions

Before you get in touch

Can therapy help if the job itself is the problem?

Yes, though not by pretending otherwise. Some of the work is deciding what to change externally and getting clear enough to actually do it.

Do you offer shorter-term work?

Some people come with a specific knot and finish in a few months. Others stay longer. We'll talk openly about it rather than defaulting to indefinite.

Can we meet before or after work hours?

Availability changes. Tell me your preferred days and times in the free consultation and I'll be straight with you about what's open.

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