Burnout and anxiety therapy in Alhambra and online across CA
Step out of survival mode and welcome ease into your life.
Lately it feels like you’re running a marathon, but you don’t know when it ends.
You grew up with the expectation to excel, not just for yourself, but for your family. Whether it was implied or said to you explicitly, the message was clear: I need to make my parents’ sacrifices worth it. So you worked hard. You got good grades, went to college, and landed the stable job. You built a life that, on paper, looks solid. You did everything “right.” And yet, it never quite feels like enough.
Even with your accolades and accomplishments, you question whether you truly belong in the spaces you’ve earned your way into. Others have validated your success, yet you can’t seem to shake the feeling that one wrong step will reveal you’re an imposter.
You can’t seem to get off this hamster wheel—constantly going, constantly proving yourself—yet never feeling any meaningful reward. You feel overwhelmed, stuck, and more than anything, you feel so exhausted.
No matter how much you try to unwind and rest on your days off, you can’t seem to relax. It’s hard to focus on anything or muster up the energy to take care of responsibilities. Everything just feels like a huge effort. You haven’t felt like yourself in a long time. Nothing brings excitement these days; hobbies and things that you used to enjoy just aren’t fun anymore. Everything just feels “meh.”
Burnout doesn’t just live in your mind.
It bleeds into every corner of your life. Days and weeks go by without responding to texts from friends and family. You see the number of unread messages piling up. You genuinely appreciate people reaching out, but you just don’t have the energy or brain power to engage. Even the smallest interactions feel like too much.
The “Sunday scaries” hit hard every week. You lie awake thinking about the week ahead, filled with dread before it even begins. The exhaustion is so intense that you find yourself wishing you could get sick, just to have a “legit” reason to take a break. You’re that depleted and desperate for permission to rest.
Helping you step off the treadmill of survival and into a life that feels like your own.
Imagine finally having breathing room again. You have the capacity to handle everyday life without feeling constantly drained. You have margins not only in your schedule, but in your mind. The mental fog that once clouded your thoughts begins to lift. You feel more in tune with yourself, and making decisions feels a bit easier. You start to believe that your time and energy are valuable, so you begin protecting them, more confidently choosing what (and who) you want to give your “yes” to.
You notice you’re able to show up more fully with your friends, family, and partner. You feel present, emotionally available, and you even start to look forward to socializing again, feeling genuinely energized by being around others. You feel it in your body too—less tense, less on edge. Instead of the anxious, frantic energy that used to wear you down, you now have a steady, more sustainable energy that actually supports you.
Your curiosity, creativity, and sense of play start to reemerge. You begin to reclaim and rediscover parts of yourself that got buried under years of pressure, expectations, and roles you’ve had to fulfill. Beyond just feeling better and more rested, you feel restored, and you feel like yourself again.
Burnout doesn’t just come from being busy or stressed. It comes from a deep internal pressure to keep pushing, proving, and performing, even when you’re depleted.
In our work together, we’ll explore what’s really driving your burnout.
What that looks like:
We’ll get to know the inner “players” that have been running the show and contributing to your burnout. For example:
The perfectionist who pushes you to get it right, all the time
The people pleaser who can’t let anyone down
The achiever who ensures you’re being productive and successful
The inner critic who tells you it’s never good enough.
We’ll get curious about their histories and patterns, helping us get to the root cause of your burnout.
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As we get to know these overworked parts of you, we’ll meet them with understanding and compassion. These parts of you aren’t bad—they’re just tired. Together, we’ll help them step back from the exhausting roles they’ve been carrying. You’ll start to respond to your own needs with more clarity and intention, rather than fear and pressure.
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Therapy for burnout and anxiety can help you…
Set (and stick to) your boundaries
Recognize and honor your limits
Notice and respond to early signs of anxiety and overwhelm
Make choices that feel aligned with your values
Tune into yourself and identify what drains you and what gives you life
Reconnect with parts of yourself that have been pushed aside
You don’t have to stay stuck in survival mode. Healing is possible.
FAQs
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Burnout is more than just feeling stressed and tired. It’s a state of chronic fatigue that impacts your mental, emotional, and physical well-being. It’s not something that can just be “fixed” through a vacation. Burnout often includes: feeling depleted, persistently tired, unmotivated, apathetic, detached, or cynical. It often comes with physical symptoms like brain fog, poor sleep, poor appetite, headaches, stomach issues, and muscle aches and pains. While workplace burnout is common, you can also become burnt out by school, parenting, caregiving, relationships, family expectations, or navigating chronic illness.
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Anxiety can lead to burnout and burnout can lead to anxiety. Oftentimes, they reinforce one another, creating a perpetual cycle that’s easy to feel stuck in. Anxiety can create an internal pressure to do more, leading to over-functioning or people-pleasing—tendenices which wear you down over time and cause burnout. In turn, when you’re burnt out, you’re already operating from a state of chronic stress. This chronic stress keeps your nervous system activated, which makes you especially prone to feeling anxious, worried, and overthinking more.
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Burnout and depression can feel very similar, and oftentimes, unaddressed burnout leads to depression. At first, you might just feel really exhausted. But over time, the exhaustion turns into numbness and apathy. You might catch yourself thinking, “What’s the point anymore?” When you’re stuck in a state of burnout, it’s easy for things to feel meaningless and hopeless, leading to depression. Whether you’re feeling burnt out, depressed, or both, we can explore and work through it together.
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IFS Therapy helps you get to the root of what’s really driving your burnout and anxiety. Rather than pushing away the feelings of exhaustion and overwhelm, the IFS approach invites you to slow down and listen to the different “parts” of you that are carrying stress or pressure. It’s a gentle and powerful approach that helps you feel more calm and connected to yourself.