Coaching for Burnout Recovery
A space to recover when rest alone hasn’t been enough.
Burnout can reveal itself in many ways. Perhaps you/ve lost your motivation, your ability to focus, or your capacity to care. You've decided to take a break from work to recover, but suspect that rest alone won't shift the deeper patterns that led you here.
You might feel slower than you expected, more sensitive, or unsure how to re-enter life without recreating the same conditions. Even without deadlines, you feel pressured, constantly monitoring yourself and wondering if you are doing recovery right.
This work is for people who have stepped away from work to recover and want to understand what their exhaustion is asking for, without pushing themselves back into performance.
You might recognize yourself here if…
Rest feels uneasy rather than nourishing. You may have taken a break, sabbatical, or medical leave but the rest isn't restoring you. Time off can feel strangely pressurized, filled with subtle expectations to heal quickly, use the time well, or emerge transformed.
Your body signals limits before your mind does. Fatigue, anxiety, or shutdown may arrive before you consciously recognize that something is too much.
You find yourself constantly monitoring how you’re doing. You may be tracking your energy, mood, and capacity throughout the day, unsure whether this attentiveness is care or another form of pressure.
You worry about returning to the same patterns. Even as you rest, there may be a quiet fear that once you resume work or responsibility, the cycle will repeat.
If even one of these feels familiar, this work is designed for exactly this terrain.
How I approach burnout recovery
This work is informed by lived experience. I come to this work not only through training, but through having lived through a prolonged burnout myself. I know firsthand what it’s like when rest doesn’t immediately restore, when capacity feels unreliable, and when the fear of repeating old patterns lingers. That experience shapes the care, pacing, and seriousness of how I work.
Burnout is not failure. I don’t approach exhaustion as something to optimize, manage, or power through. In this work, burnout is taken seriously as a signal that something important has been out of alignment, not as a failure of willpower or resilience.
We look beneath the exhaustion. Stress reduction is not enough. We pay attenton to the physical, relational, and emotional patterns that made overextension feel normal, necessary, or hard to see at the time.
Recovery sets the pace. Burnout recovery is rarely linear. Capacity comes back unevenly, and trust in your own limits takes time to rebuild. Because of this, I work only with clients who are committed to taking at least three months completely off work.
How we work together
We start with what’s already showing up. We don't begin with goals or a timeline. We learn to deeply listen to the signals of your energy, attention and body and follow those.
We work with the whole self. Alongside conversation and reflection, we include simple embodied practices that support nervous system regulation, clearer boundaries, and the slow rebuilding of capacity.
We begin with a conversation. Most people start with an introductory conversation to see whether this way of working feels supportive. It’s a chance to speak openly about what you’re navigating and to sense fit, without any expectation to commit beyond that.