When stress at work becomes anxiety, therapy can help you flourish once again.
Therapy for work stress and burnout in Bloomington, Indiana
In-person appointments are available in Bloomington, IN, and virtually across Indiana.
Is your job leaving you exhausted, overwhelmed, and disconnected from the people you love?
Many professionals I work with feel overwhelming work stress and burnout that affects their energy, relationships, and sense of meaning. This stress and feelings of burnout can show up in other ways that start to wear you down. You might feel “on edge” all the time because you’re feeling tension with your manager, the weight of unrealistic expectations, or a challenging or toxic work environment. Maybe your role that you once loved and were fulfilled by has burnt you out and is now leaving you feeling numb, anxious, and depleted. Your work stress can affect you physically too. It can creep into your body, causing fatigue, headaches, or restless nights. It can even sneak into your personal relationships, making it harder to connect with the people you care about. As it gets worse, even simple routines, like getting out of bed or making it through the day, can begin to feel like a struggle.
Does any of this feel familiar?
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Just trying to get through the day, forcing yourself past feeling overwhelmed and burnt out. By the time you get home from work, you’re so exhausted and burned out that even small things like cooking dinner or talking with your family feels like it’s too much to handle.
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About everything that went wrong that day or could go wrong tomorrow, things you’re dreading at work, and wondering how you can navigate your toxic work environment for another day. If you are able to fall asleep, you wake up in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep because you’re dreading work the next day.
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At your partner or your kids over things that wouldn’t normally bother you. Your energy is gone, you’re irritable, and you have a hard time engaging with your family. Your mood and anxiety has led to constant tension in your home and you might even isolate yourself. making it hard to keep strong relationships with your family.
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Or skip hobbies you used to enjoy because you no longer have the energy to participate or engage with them. Skipping these activities affects your work/life balance, making you feel even worse because you can no longer find joy and fulfillment in your personal life.
What’s the difference between burnout and work stress?
Work stress can come and go depending on deadlines, workload, or leadership changes. Burnout often feels more chronic and is often marked by exhaustion, detachment, and a loss of meaning in your work. If you’re unsure which you’re experiencing, that uncertainty itself is common. Together, we can explore what’s contributing to your stress and develop a sustainable path forward.
How therapy can help with work stress and burnout
It might feel impossible now, but you can navigate the difficult work situations that cause your job stress. You can lower your anxiety. You can be kind to your family once again and renew the relationships you’ve been avoiding.
I can help you get there by using these strategies:
Respond effectively to stressful work situations
Together we’ll practice techniques that help you distance yourself from anxious thoughts. These techniques will help you stay calm, stay present, and respond more effectively to stressful or toxic work situations.
Keep stress from spilling into your personal life
I’ll share tools that can help you decompress at the end of the day so work stress doesn’t follow you home; allowing you to be more patient and connected with your family and friends.
Take action toward what truly matters
We’ll work to help you learn to let go of the struggle with anxiety and reconnect with what matters most to you so you can take meaningful action toward what truly matters to you in your work and life.
A quick note that these challenges rarely exist in isolation. Many professionals experiencing work stress also struggle with imposter syndrome and sometimes they even begin to think about a career transition.
You can read more about how these challenges show up in work and in your life in this article on Imposter Syndrome/Work Stress.
By tailoring each session to your unique situation, I will help you attain your goals. My passion for helping professionals manage work-related stress and burnout comes from a place of struggling with the same issues for many years. I’m passionate about helping clients learn tools to help them stay calm in tricky work situations, set better boundaries, and be more present and focused throughout the workday, helping them to follow through on what's most important to them.
It’s time to reduce your work stress and begin recovering from burnout.
You don’t have to manage this alone
Questions?
FAQs
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People come to counseling for all kinds of work-related concerns. Some are simply dealing with everyday stress, like managing their workload, adjusting to a new role, or navigating difficult conversations or difficult people. Others may be feeling stuck in work that isn’t fulfilling, they might be burned out from constant pressure, or struggling with how to better balance their job with the rest of their life.
Some clients come to therapy because they’re trying to cope with toxic environments, chronic anxiety at work, or the emotional toll of being in a high-responsibility role. Others are working through deeper pain like feeling de-valued, emotionally exhausted, or questioning their worth after long-term mistreatment or trauma in the workplace. Therapy for work stress provides a space to untangle these experiences, understand what’s happening internally, and move forward with greater clarity and self-compassion.
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While there are no guarantees, this process has been proven to work extremely well for anxiety, depression, and many other mental health challenges. It is especially helpful for work stress because many times so much of what happens to us at work is outside of our control. With this process, we make peace with this and take committed action towards our values, ensuring a happier and more meaningful career and life.
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Because I’ve been there. I’ve felt the anxiety from challenging and even toxic work environments. I’ve struggled with handling things at work that I had no control over. I’ve experienced amazing workplaces and the not-so-amazing. I can commiserate with many types of situations and have experience with a wide range of work struggles. It would be an honor for me to help you along your career journey.
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That’s great to hear! Feel free to click the button below to schedule a free 15-minute consultation session where I’ll ask you to describe a bit about what’s going on. Then, I’ll share how I work, answer any questions you have, and if everything seems like a good fit, we’ll schedule your first appointment.