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Burnout
Burnout is not a scheduling problem or a sign that you need a vacation. It happens when you have been pushing through for so long, with so little left in the tank, that you have forgotten what it felt like to not feel this way.
You may notice that:
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Sleep stopped helping a long time ago
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You are going through the motions of a life that should feel meaningful and mostly just feels numb
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You snap at people you love and then feel ashamed of yourself for it
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Even small tasks feel enormous, and nothing you finish feels like enough
You may still be meeting your responsibilities and, from the outside, things might look fine. On the inside, though, something has stopped working in a way that productivity tips and long weekends are never going to fix.
How Can Therapy Help Burnout?
Burnout therapy is not about making you stronger. You are already strong, and that is part of why you have been carrying so much for so long.
The work is about understanding what got you here and finding places where things can start to shift, so that you are not just white-knuckling your way through the rest of your life.
In therapy, we might work toward:
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Understanding the emotional patterns and attachment strategies underneath the exhaustion
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Identifying where over-functioning began and what it was protecting
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Reconnecting with what you actually need, not just what you can tolerate
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Building boundaries that come from clarity rather than guilt or shame
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Reducing the internal pressure and self-criticism that keeps the cycle going
This is not about fixing you. It is about creating enough room that you can start to feel like yourself again and have energy for the things that truly matter to you.
Virtual Counselling · Adults 18+ · Alberta and Ontario
Registered psychotherapist (qualifying) · CRPO #20257
My services are covered by many extended health benefit plans.
Receipts provided after each session for reimbursement.
Common Questions About Burnout
Is burnout a clinical diagnosis?
Burnout does not have its own diagnosis in the DSM-5. In clinical practice, when a formal diagnosis is needed, burnout often presents closest to adjustment disorder, a stress-related category in the DSM-5 that covers significant distress or impairment in response to identifiable stressors.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes burnout as an occupational phenomenon in the ICD-11.
None of this changes what therapy can address, and it does not require a formal diagnosis to begin.
Personally, I find that the medical model, which is what the DSM and ICD are based on, often struggles to hold the full weight of what burnout actually is, what causes it, and what it takes to move through it.
Ultimately, I am less interested in what category your experience fits into and more focused on what is actually going on for you.
How is burnout different from depression?
Burnout and depression share some features, including low energy, emotional numbness, and difficulty engaging with daily life, and they can occur at the same time. Burnout tends to be more situationally driven and may lift with significant changes in load or environment. Depression is typically more pervasive and less tied to specific circumstances. A thorough assessment can help clarify what is happening and what kind of support would be most helpful.
Can burnout go away on its own?
Sometimes, if the circumstances driving it change significantly. More often, burnout persists or deepens because the patterns underneath it, how you relate to your own needs, what you believe you owe others, how you respond to stress, stay the same even when the external situation shifts. Rest helps in the short term. Understanding what got you there is what makes longer-term change possible.