Therapy for Burnout, Overwhelm & Anxiety
For high-functioning people holding everything together—while feeling depleted and running on empty.
Serving clients virtually in California and Washington and locally in San Rafael
When Everything Feels Like Too Much
Life looks good on the outside, but inside it feels like a frazzled mess.
For many people, this doesn’t come out of nowhere. It builds over time—through layers of responsibility and expectation: managing a career, navigating parenting or co-parenting, or the aftermath of a divorce. Maybe you’re noticing that you’re always in the role of being the reliable one—at work, in relationships, in your family. You’ve been holding it together for others without much space for yourself.
At some point, the strain starts to show. Perhaps you’re feeling a constant sense of pressure or urgency, or feeling overwhelmed by the endless sea of decisions and to-dos—like your entire life is a series of time-boxed tasks. Maybe you feel depleted but find it hard to relax at the end of the day, your mind ruminating on what else needs to be done. There’s a growing sense of being worn down, burnt out, and stressed about how to change things.
Existential anxiety might be seeping into the crevices of your mind—is this what life is? How did I turn into this stressed-out, unhappy person? When will it ever stop?
Finding Calm Within the Storm
In our work together, we start by helping you manage what’s most immediate—reducing overwhelm, learning practical ways to cope, and shifting how you relate to the pressures in your life. From there, we begin to understand what’s driving the pressure from the inside.
Using a mindfulness-based, somatic approach, we:
slow down the mental loops by bringing awareness to how your mind moves, creating space so you’re not constantly caught in cycles of overthinking and urgency
work with the nervous system to help it come out of a chronic state of overdrive, building your capacity to feel more regulated, settled, and less reactive.
build awareness of the patterns that keep you pushing, overextending, and holding everything together, often without realizing how automatic they’ve become.
gently shift the relationship you have with pressure, responsibility, and self-criticism, so it no longer feels like the only way to function.
reconnect you with a steadier, more grounded way of being—one that isn’t driven by constant urgency or internal pressure.
Beyond Burnout: The Deeper Layers
As things begin to settle, we can start to explore the deeper layers—like the existential anxiety that often sits underneath it all.
We start to look at the larger context we’re living in—a fast-paced, stressed-out, individualistic culture that often keeps us in a constant state of pressure and disconnection. Over time, this way of living can take a toll on both the mind and body.
Part of this work is unburdening the internalized pressure to keep going, to keep producing, to keep holding everything together—so there is more space for the real you to emerge.
From there, we can begin to explore what kind of life the real you wants to cultivate. How do you want to feel? How do you want to show up in your life?
Together, we can explore how to integrate these insights into your daily life, working toward creating a meaningful life. This is not about creating an idealized fantasy life. In this process, we acknowledge the limitations of life’s challenges and the realities of hardship. Much of this work is about making internal changes and shifting perspectives so that wherever you are in life, there is a way to access contentment, calmness, and peace.
A Buddhist-Based Approach to Holistic Living
This work is rooted in a Buddhist-informed approach to living—one that centers awareness, compassion, and a different relationship to the mind.
Rather than relying exclusively on eliminating stress or controlling every aspect of life, we begin to relate to experience differently. We learn how to be with what’s here, without immediately reacting, fixing, or pushing it away.
Through mindfulness, you start to notice the patterns of the mind—how it grasps, worries, plans, and judges—and how those patterns create additional suffering on top of what’s already difficult.
At the same time, we cultivate a more compassionate and steady way of being with yourself. Not driven by pressure or self-criticism, but by awareness and care.
From this place, meaning isn’t something you have to chase or figure out perfectly. It begins to emerge through how you live—through presence, intention, and the way you relate to yourself and your life.
This doesn’t remove the realities of stress, uncertainty, or pain. But it changes how you meet them—and that shift can fundamentally alter your experience of life.
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I offer a free 20-minute consultation to learn more about my approach and services, and see if its a good fit.