Stress and burnout
Therapy for stress and burnout
Burnout is not weakness and it is not fixed by a holiday. It is what sustained demand without sustained recovery does to people. Sessions over video, with slots that fit around working hours.
Free 15–20 minutes · Sessions from ₹1,200 · English or Hindi
What burnout actually looks like
It is frequently mistaken for laziness by the person experiencing it, which is part of why it goes so far before anyone addresses it.
- —Exhaustion that sleep and weekends no longer touch.
- —Cynicism about work you used to care about.
- —Sunday evenings are ruined by Monday.
- —You are less effective, and compensating with longer hours.
- —Irritability at home with people who have done nothing wrong.
- —You cannot rest without guilt, and you cannot work without resentment.
How the work goes
The first task is separating what is environmental from what is personal. Some workplaces produce burnout in healthy people, and treating that as an individual coping deficiency is both wrong and useless. Equally, some patterns — inability to say no, worth tied to output, a standard nobody set but you — travel with a person from job to job.
Most people arrive with some of each, and the work is different for each part.
Mapping the demand
What is actually required of you, what you have taken on voluntarily, and what you are doing because nobody stopped you.
Rebuilding recovery
Burnout is a recovery problem before it is a workload problem. This is practical work, and more specific than being told to rest.
The standard underneath
Often a belief that rest is earned and worth is produced. That belief predates the job and will follow you to the next one.
Boundaries that survive contact with reality
Built for the job you actually have, not an idealised one, so they hold on a bad week.
What usually changes
- Evenings stop being a continuation of the working day.
- You can rest without negotiating with yourself first.
- The decision about whether to stay or leave becomes clear, in either direction.
- You notice the early signals next time, months before the wall.
- Work becomes something you do rather than something you are.
Burnout and depression overlap considerably and are not the same thing. If what you are describing looks more like depression, I will say so, and where symptoms are severe I will suggest a psychiatric assessment alongside therapy.
What it costs
- Discovery call, 15–20 minutes
- Free
- Single session, up to 60 minutes
- ₹1,200
- Three-session bundle
- ₹3,200
- Six-session bundle
- ₹6,000
Paid sessions are arranged after the discovery call. There is no obligation to book one.
Common questions
They overlap and they are distinct. Burnout is typically tied to a context — usually work — and eases when the context genuinely changes. Depression is broader, affecting interest and mood across your whole life regardless of setting. The two frequently occur together, and it is worth establishing which you are dealing with early, because the response differs.
No. That is your decision and it usually has consequences that no therapist has to live with. The work is about seeing the situation clearly — what can change, what cannot, and what staying is actually costing — so that whichever you choose, you choose it deliberately.
Sessions run over video and slots are available early and in the evening, IST. Most working clients use a slot before the day starts or after it ends, and the absence of a commute means an hour costs an hour.
Commonly 8 to 16 sessions for the psychological work. Full recovery of energy usually takes longer than that and depends substantially on whether the conditions that caused it change.
Next step
The first conversation is free, and there is no obligation to book a session afterwards.
Fifteen to twenty minutes over video. You describe what has been going on, ask whatever you want to ask, and we both decide whether this is a fit.
Book a free discovery call