Therapy for Burnout & Work Stress in New York
When success starts to feel unsustainable
From the outside, your life may look impressive. You may be high-functioning, responsible, and accomplished. Others rely on you. You meet expectations. You show up.
And yet internally, something feels depleted. You might:
Wake up already exhausted
Feel irritable or emotionally numb
Struggle to care about work you once felt invested in
Feel resentful of those you work with and how much is asked of you
Some or all of these might resonate with you.
Burnout is not just about long hours. It often reflects deeper patterns: perfectionism, over-functioning, difficulty setting boundaries, or tying self-worth to productivity.
For many professionals, burnout is relational as much as it is occupational.
What may be happening beneath the surface
Professional burnout often shows up as:
Waking up already dreading the day, even after a full night’s sleep
Pushing through when every part of you wants to stop
Feeling like you can’t say no, and resenting that you can’t
Organizing your sense of worth entirely around what you produce
Working in environments where the pressure never fully lifts
If you work in law, finance, medicine, tech, or another demanding field, you may feel trapped between ambition and exhaustion.
Sometimes burnout is also connected to earlier relational dynamics or past traumas, experiences have conveyed the message that love, safety, or approval were linked to performance. The drive that got you here didn’t come from nowhere.
Some of the people I work with are first-generation professionals navigating the tension between cultural or familial loyalty and their own autonomy. This can show up as guilt, burnout, or difficulty prioritizing their emotional needs without feeling as though they’re letting others down.
I also work with individuals navigating LGBTQ+ identity in the workplace, where questions of visibility, belonging, and emotional safety can add another layer to professional stress and burnout.
My approach to burnout therapy
In our work together, we’ll look beyond surface-level stress management.
I practice depth-oriented, psychodynamic therapy that explores how achievement became tied to identity, how attachment patterns show up in professional relationship, the internal voice that drives you, and he cost of chronic self-sacrifice.
We’ll use parts-work (IFS) to understand the part of you that pushes relentlessly, as well as the parts that feels tired, unseen, or desperate for something to change. We’ll pay attention to how your body is responding, because burnout isn’t only psychological. Somatic approaches help make sense of the exhaustion, tension, and numbness that don’t resolve just from insight alone.
Burnout recovery is not just about working less. It’s about reorganizing how you relate to yourself.
If you’re ready for burnout therapy in New York that goes deeper than coping strategies, I invite you to reach out.
This work typically takes place within individual therapy, though I also work with couples where relevant.