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Understanding Work Stress & Burnout
Work can shape much of our lives – our sense of purpose, identity, and worth.
When it becomes overwhelming, it can lead to exhaustion, anxiety, irritability, or a loss of motivation.
For some, stress shows up as sleeplessness and constant worry.
For others, it takes the form of numbness, burnout, or frustration with colleagues. These experiences are never identical – each person’s relationship to work, success, and failure is entirely their own.
Therapy provides a space to speak openly about what work has come to mean for you – the pressures, expectations, and conflicts that lie behind the surface strain.
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What causes work stress & burnout?
Stress is rarely just about workload.
Often, it’s tied to deeper themes – ambition, fear of failure, perfectionism, or the need to please others.
Sometimes, we push ourselves to the point of collapse because stopping feels too dangerous – as though worth or belonging might disappear.
In this way, stress can become a kind of defence: a way of managing inner tension by constantly doing, achieving, or performing.
Therapy helps bring these patterns into awareness and begins the process of working through them – slowly loosening the hold they have on daily life.
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How does therapy help for work stress & burnout?
Therapy offers time and space to pause – to reflect, feel, and think differently.
By speaking about what drives your stress, you begin not only to understand it but to work through the emotional patterns that sustain it.
As the underlying pressures come into view, new choices become possible.
Balance, rest, and satisfaction can return – a new sense of motivation experienced.
Our psychotherapists work with care and confidentiality, helping you explore how your relationship to work connects with your wider life and sense of self.
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