You're good at your job. That's rarely the problem.

The problem is the Sunday dread that now starts on Saturday afternoon. The inbox you check before you're properly awake. The quiet certainty that one mistake will show you're less capable than everyone thinks. Or the slow realisation that the career you built so carefully no longer fits the person you've become.

For many high-functioning people, work is where they carry the most and where they're least likely to say so.

When the strengths become the strain

The qualities that got you here, like high standards, reliability and the ability to keep going, are often the same ones keeping you stuck. Burnout rarely looks like collapse. More often it shows up as irritability, flatness, broken sleep, and a growing distance from things that used to matter.

How we work with it.

We'll help you notice the rules running in the background ("I can't let anyone down", "rest has to be earned"), loosen their hold, and get clear on what you actually value about your work and what you don't. Sometimes that leads to a new role or direction. Often it means doing the same job with a very different relationship to it.

We also work with the other end of a career. Leaving work, whether through retirement or a change you didn't choose, can unsettle your sense of who you are in ways people rarely expect, even when the change was wanted.

Start with a conversation

Fifteen minutes. One honest conversation. A free chat with one of our BACP-registered clinical therapists, to talk through what's going on and whether we're the right fit. You don't need to prepare anything, and there's no obligation afterwards