Treatment for occupational burnout and chronic work stress.
For adults experiencing the predictable physiological and psychological consequences of sustained workplace overload.
Burnout is a syndrome characterised by emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and a reduced sense of professional accomplishment, developing in response to chronic occupational stress. It frequently co-occurs with anxiety and depressive symptoms, and is often unrecognised until functioning has been impaired for some time. Treatment is individualised to your role, context and recovery goals.
Presentations commonly treated
- Occupational burnout in professional services, clinical and leadership roles
- Chronic work stress with sleep, mood or somatic symptoms
- Return-to-work after extended psychological leave
- High-functioning anxiety progressing to exhaustion
- Adjustment difficulties following role change, redundancy, or workplace conflict
How the work is structured
Early treatment focuses on stabilisation: pacing, sleep, and recalibration of the autonomic nervous system. Later sessions address the maintaining factors, including over-functioning, poorly defined boundaries, and the implicit beliefs that have made the unsustainable pattern feel necessary. The treatment plan is developed collaboratively and revised as the clinical picture clarifies.
WorkCover and accepted claims
Where burnout meets the criteria for a work-related psychological injury and a workers compensation claim has been accepted, treatment may be funded through the workers compensation insurer.
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