Burnout and stress
When work has quietly taken everything and you cannot switch off. You do not have to be falling apart for this to be worth an hour.
Our office, on Shoal Creek across from Pease Park. Sessions here or virtually, anywhere in Texas.
Burnout rarely looks like collapse. It usually looks like somebody performing at roughly the same level while everything underneath it costs more than it used to.
The dread that starts on Sunday afternoon, or earlier.
Rest that does not restore anything, so the weekend disappears and nothing changes.
Caring less about work you used to care about, and being unsettled by that.
A short fuse at home that work never sees.
The body keeping score: sleep, headaches, a stomach that reacts before you do.
Telling yourself it is just a busy season, for a stretch that has stopped being a season. ELLEN WE NEED YOUR INPUT HERE. These five are plausible rather than real. Replace them with what people actually describe when burnout is the reason they call.
We chose the name Decades for both halves: the years behind you, and the years still ahead. What you have been through is real. It does not get to write the rest of the story.
Trauma work here is not about erasing what happened. It is about making plans for real relief over time: healthier relationships with yourself and with other people, and a clearer sense of what is going on inside, even when that progress is slow and not always seen on the outside.
Nobody is going to tell you to quit your job, and nobody is going to hand you a breathing exercise and call it done.
There is no waitlist to get started.
Tell us what you are dealing withThe consultation. Twenty free minutes. You describe what work has been like and we work out whether this is the right place and who fits. It ends in a recommendation, not an assignment.
The first sessions. History and orientation. How long this has been building, what has already been tried, what is actually load-bearing in your week, and what you want to be different.
After that. ELLEN WE NEED YOUR INPUT HERE. What genuinely happens next, and specifically how the work separates what a person can change from what they are absorbing because the job will not change.
Ellen Johnson
MA, LPC | Clinical Director
Burnout is one of the most common things this practice sees, and it is treated as its own thing rather than as anxiety with a work label on it. Some of it is what the job is doing to you. Some of it is what you have learned to tolerate, and why.
This is work with a destination. You are not signing up for something indefinite.
Where this overlaps
By the time somebody calls about work, it has usually reached the rest of their life. That is normal and it does not mean starting somewhere else. It does mean the work may go wider than the job.
If the noise does not switch off even away from work: anxiety and depression therapyThe methods, and where they fit. ELLEN WE NEED YOUR INPUT HERE. What is honestly used for burnout here, and by whom. Please name only what somebody is actually trained in.
If it is landing hardest on your relationship: couples therapyNot sure which fits? Ask us on a free consultationBurnout is one of the most common reasons people call here, which means it does not have to be explained from scratch, and it is not treated as a smaller problem than the ones with clinical names.
Most of the team hold a license, or are working under a named supervisor toward one. Every associate names their supervisor on their own profile, so you always know who is overseeing your care.
It is an honor to sit with people in some of their most vulnerable moments. That is the tone we try to keep here, not a hustle toward a finish line.
Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons people call here. It does not need a diagnosis behind it to be worth working on, and you do not have to be at the end of something to start.
No. That decision is yours and it is usually not the first question anyway. What the work does is separate what you can change from what you are absorbing, so that whatever you decide is a decision rather than a reaction.
As long as it is useful, and no longer than that. There is no fixed number of sessions here and nobody is trying to keep you in the chair. Most people arrive with something specific in mind, and the work is aimed at it.
Appointments run early and late, and virtual sessions take the commute out of it. If your week is the problem, say so on the consultation and we will find the version that survives contact with your calendar.
Appointments Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm, in person in Central Austin (across from Pease Park) or virtually across Texas. Weekends are sometimes available, so please ask if that works better for you.
No. The practice does not bill insurance directly. We can check your out-of-network benefits for you, by hand, before you commit to anything.
Say so on the consultation. Some of the team are working under supervision toward full licensure and see clients at a reduced fee, and it is a normal thing to ask about rather than an awkward one.
Twenty free minutes. You describe what work has been like, we tell you honestly whether this is the right place, and you decide from there.
Book a free consultationPick a time that suits you, sometimes as early as today.
We talk through what would help, and what it would take.
You leave with a recommendation to work with someone on our team, or a referral to another resource in the area. Either way, you won't be back at square one.
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