Burnout Therapy in Los Angeles
In-person in Los Angeles. Virtual across California, Nevada, and Oregon.
Modern, depth-oriented therapy for the kind of burnout that doesn't look like burnout—until it does.
You're not falling apart.
You're showing up. You're producing. The deliverables are getting delivered. The people in your life would probably tell you you're doing great.
And underneath, something is starting to give.
You're tired in a way sleep doesn't fix. The work that used to feel meaningful feels like static. You're shorter with the people you love and you don't quite know why. The thought of next quarter—next month, next week—lands in your chest like a low-grade alarm.
That's burnout. And it doesn't always look the way pop culture told you it would.
If you're considering burnout therapy in Los Angeles, this is the page that tells you who I am, who I work with, and what real treatment for burnout actually involves.
What Burnout Actually Is
In clinical terms, burnout is a state of chronic stress depletion—physical, emotional, and cognitive—caused by sustained demand outpacing your capacity to recover.
It has three core features:
Exhaustion — depletion that doesn't resolve with normal rest
Cynicism or detachment — emotional distance from your work, your people, your life
Reduced sense of efficacy — the feeling that what you do doesn't matter, or isn't enough
If you're nodding at all three, you're not lazy and you're not failing. You're in burnout. It's a recognized clinical pattern—and it's workable.
My burnout therapy practice in Los Angeles is focused on a specific kind of client:
Professionals, founders, and senior leaders carrying responsibility their personal lives weren't built to absorb
High achievers whose drive has become inseparable from their depletion
Creatives and people in high-pressure industries whose work and identity are tightly intertwined
Helpers and caretakers—therapists, physicians, nurses, teachers, and parents who give for a living
The chronically overfunctioning—people who have been the "strong one" so long they've forgotten who they are without the role
Adults recovering from a recent collapse—the kind that comes after years of pushing through
The common thread: smart, capable people who waited too long to take this seriously. Or who are trying not to wait this time.
Who I Work With
A non-exhaustive list of what tends to come up:
Emotional exhaustion that no weekend fixes
Chronic stress and the physiological depletion that comes with it
Workplace burnout in high-demand, high-stakes roles
Compassion fatigue in helping professionals
Parental burnout in caregivers running on empty
Burnout-related anxiety—when the two start feeding each other
Burnout that's tipped into depression (these often coexist)
The aftermath of burnout—rebuilding capacity, identity, and direction
The patterns underneath burnout—perfectionism, overfunctioning, difficulty with limits, the "strong one" role
If you're not sure where your experience fits, that's fine. Naming it is part of the work, not a prerequisite for starting.
What Burnout Looks Like In My Practice
How Burnout Therapy Actually Goes
A few things distinguish modern burnout therapy from generic stress management.
It's not just about lowering your stress level.
Most burnout advice focuses on the load: take time off, set better boundaries, get more sleep. These things matter—but they don't address the patterns that produced the burnout in the first place.
If we don't work with the underlying mechanics—the perfectionism, the overfunctioning, the difficulty receiving, the nervous system that doesn't know how to downshift—the burnout will simply rebuild itself. Differently. But the same.
We work with the system, not just the symptoms.
In our work, we address:
The physiological depletion — what your nervous system actually needs to recover
The patterns underneath — the overfunctioning, the difficulty with limits, the role you've been playing in your relationships and your work
The beliefs running the show — the unexamined assumptions about worth, productivity, rest, and what makes a life "count"
The identity questions burnout surfaces — who you are when you stop performing, and who you actually want to be next
This is what makes recovery durable rather than temporary.
Nervous system work is part of it.
Burnout lives in the body. The mind is often the last to know.
We work with what's happening physiologically—real breath, real downshifts, real recovery—not as a wellness trend, but as clinical practice. Burnout recovery doesn't happen through better thinking. It happens through giving the system a different experience.
The relationship is the work.
For people whose burnout is tied to chronic overfunctioning—and most people's is—the experience of being in a consistent, attuned, professional relationship is part of what shifts the underlying template.
You don't have to perform recovery. You just have to show up.
WHAT TO EXPECT IN SESSIONS
What sessions actually look like
Sessions are fifty minutes, weekly, in-person in Los Angeles or virtual across California, Nevada, and Oregon.
Early sessions focus on:
Understanding the specific shape your burnout has taken
Mapping the patterns that produced it
Identifying what needs to change—structurally and internally
Building working alliance and clinical fit
Later in the work:
Examining the patterns underneath the burnout
Working with the nervous system in real time
Addressing the identity, relational, and historical factors driving the loop
Building real recovery—not just symptom remission, but renewed capacity for the rest of your life
The work isn't linear. Some sessions are practical. Some open something. Some feel quieter and turn out to have moved more than you realized.
HOW LONG THIS TAKES
How long burnout therapy usually takes
Honest answer: it depends on how deep the burnout is and what's underneath it.
Initial relief often begins within the first month, as the load starts to lift
Stabilization—where you stop feeling like you're running on empty—generally takes three to six months
Real recovery—where the underlying patterns shift, not just the symptoms—tends to unfold over a longer arc, often a year or more
Integration and maintenance continues beyond that, often at a less intensive cadence
Some clients come in for focused, time-limited work and move on. Others stay because the work keeps opening doors. Both are valid.
THE PRACTICAL DETAILS
In-person: Los Angeles
Virtual: California, Nevada, Oregon
Session length: 50 minutes
Frequency: Weekly (with occasional exceptions for what the work needs)
Format: Private-pay, with superbills available for potential out-of-network insurance reimbursement
Fees: Discussed in initial inquiry
If private-pay therapy is new to you, the short version: it protects your confidentiality, gives both of us clinical autonomy, and lets the work be directed by what you actually need rather than what insurance dictates.
A Final Note
If you've been telling yourself you'll deal with this once the current project is over—once this quarter ends, once things calm down—I want to gently push back.
Things rarely calm down on their own. The patterns that produced this burnout don't dissolve when the deadline passes. And the cost of waiting is rarely a single bill—it's the slow erosion of presence, pleasure, and self over years.
You don't need a full collapse to deserve good care.
If you're considering burnout therapy in Los Angeles, or virtual therapy across California, Nevada, or Oregon, I'd love to talk. A first consultation is the simplest way to find out if we're the right fit.