Burnout Therapy for Professionals

Your Professional Standing Rests on Handling ‘The Next Thing’

When something falls apart at 4:45 on a Friday, you are the person they pull aside.

You are good at this, you have been good at it for years, and a fair amount of your reputation depends on your continuing to be good at it.

It has not occurred to anyone, including you, that the role has a cost attached to it.

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Your Sundays Are Where the Cost Shows Up

The dread arrives on schedule.

It is low and dull and physical, a weight that settles in around four in the afternoon and stays through dinner.

You have stopped mentioning it, partly because there is nothing anyone can do about it and partly because the version of you that people rely on does not say things like that out loud.

Monday will be fine. Monday is always fine.

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You Have Been Paying for Monday Every Week for Years

Sunday afternoon is the price, and you have been giving it up over a long time.

You have thought about finding someone.

What stopped you was not the cost or the time. It was the idea of a diagnosis sitting in a file with your name on it, reviewed by people you will never meet, attached to a license renewal or a credentialing application, or a clearance form you will fill out again in three years.

So you have handled it yourself, competently, for a long time. That has worked about as well as it is going to.

Bring the Part You Do Not Say Out Loud

Using my free phone consultation will offer you that opportunity.

Ask me the question about the file first.

If I am the wrong person to offer you guidance, you will hear that from me early, with a name or two that fit better.

Sessions run 55 minutes by video, anywhere in California.

Call me today at (805) 635-2153.

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Start with 15 Minutes on the Phone

Before you commit to anything, you tell me roughly what is going on. I ask a few questions. Then I tell you honestly what I think, including whether I am the right person for it.

If I am not, I will try to point you toward someone who is, and I would rather do that in fifteen minutes than in six weeks. You are also interviewing me.

We will talk about what is not moving, and what it would take to move it.