Burnout Support in Coquitlam & Online Across BC

Burnout can develop when ongoing stress, pressure, or emotional demands begin to overwhelm your capacity to cope. It isn't just stress, business, or being tired. Burnout is what happens when your mind and body have been stretched too far for too long. It develops from prolonged exposure to mental, emotional, and/or physical stress without enough time, skills, or space to recoup. Many professionals, parents, students and neurodivergents find themselves feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, disconnected, or unable to recover even after rest.

 

Signs You May Be Experiencing Burnout

Symptoms can be:

• Persistent exhaustion, even after rest

• Feeling emotionally drained or numb

• Difficulty concentrating or making decisions

• Irritability or increased frustration

• Loss of motivation or enjoyment in work or daily life

• Feeling disconnected from others

• A sense of being constantly overwhelmed 

• Feeling foggy

• Being unable to focus or follow through - perhaps even on simple tasks

• Feeling detached from self/ work/ others​ ​

• Shame, Guilt, Embarrassment

• Sense of no longer being able to "push through"

• Not being able to pinpoint why everything feels heavier than it used to.

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Burnout also affects how well we think and function. People who are burnt out commonly notice brain fog, difficulty concentrating, trouble making decisions, reduced motivation, forgetfulness and difficulty initiating or following through on tasks. These changes can happen to anyone experiencing prolonged stress, although people with ADHD, autism or other neurodivergent traits may experience additional challenges related to executive functioning, masking or environments that do not fit their needs.

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Looking for a more specific starting point? Explore Burnout Therapy for Women, Burnout Therapy for Moms, or Work/ Student Burnout for a closer look at how burnout shows up in that experience specifically.

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Burnout in Professionals, Parents & Students

Burnout affects people in many different life roles, especially high-performing ones when expectations are high and responsibilities feel constant. When people feel pressure to perform at a high level without adequate support, such as parents and caregivers carrying emotional and logistical responsibilities that leave little space for rest, personal needs, or recovery, or students and young adults facing academic pressure, uncertainty about the future, or trying to balance school, work, and relationships, it is a recipe for burnout. Burnout is especially common among people carrying sustained responsibility, including professionals, parents, caregivers, students and people working in emotionally demanding roles. Women and neurodivergent people can face additional pressures that increase vulnerability to burnout. Burnout often overlaps with anxiety, ADHD, Autism, Giftedness, or relationship strain, and many clients benefit from exploring these areas in therapy.

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At Kayda Health, we support individuals navigating burnout across many life contexts - processing the roles, old scripts, deep emotional states, and core beliefs that contribute to burnout while building stronger resources and systems to manage day-to-day coping. 

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Our Approach to Burnout Therapy

It's so important to do the emotional work to process burnout as non-defining of who you are; it isn't a failure, but it IS a sign your system needs a reset. 

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Burnout recovery is not simply about reducing stress in the moment. It often involves understanding deeper patterns related to expectations, boundaries, identity, and emotional regulation as well as resetting the nervous system and even recalibrating your life compass. 

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Our counsellors use evidence-based approaches that may include:

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• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to shift the thoughts and behaviours that perpetuate burnout.

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) to support better distress tolerance, increase interpersonal skills (ie. boundary setting), mindful self-awareness (enhanced insight and judgement), and emotional regulation.

• EMDR to help process deep core beliefs, old patterns or traumas that may have led to people-pleasing, a lack of worth, and more.

• Solution-Focused Therapy to find a strength-based way of moving forward. 

• Mindfulness & nervous system regulation strategies to shift how the body experiences and holds on to stress. 

• Practical problem-solving and life balance planning - to create new systems and ways of being that actually fit and lean towards a life that feels truly worth living. 

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Therapy is collaborative and tailored to each person’s experience. Some clients need space to process emotional exhaustion, while others benefit from developing practical tools for managing stress and creating sustainable change - our team meets people where they are at. 

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Burnout is not just about how much you have to do. It can also be shaped by what happens when your limits come up against other people’s needs, expectations or disappointment. Take our free 3-minute boundary self-reflection quiz →

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Burnout Counselling Near You in Coquitlam or Online

At Kayda Health, our counsellors provide burnout counselling in Coquitlam and online across British Columbia to help individuals take different perspectives, build and rely on better resources and systems. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, or unsure how to regain balance, burnout counselling can help you begin moving forward again. Most of our team offer consultations to help you determine whether counselling feels like the right next step and which therapist may be the best fit for your needs. You can book a consultation through our website to explore how burnout counselling may support your wellbeing. 

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Therapists Who Work With Burnout

Burnout can develop for different reasons, and the right therapist fit may depend on what is contributing to it. Our clinicians work with burnout related to chronic stress, workplace demands, perfectionism, caregiving, major life transitions and the pressure to keep functioning when your capacity is stretched.

• Kyle Pelletier, RCC works with adults experiencing overwhelm, burnout, anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and self-doubt, particularly when the pressure to keep functioning and meet high expectations has become difficult to sustain.

• Vanessa Thomson, RCC works with adults experiencing burnout, stress and anxiety related to work, performance, career pressure, identity and high expectations.

• Fan Ye, RCC works with adults experiencing workplace stress and burnout, including people navigating disability leave, career changes or anxiety about returning to work.

• Krupa Samji, RCC works with adults experiencing burnout, stress and major life transitions, including challenges related to work-life balance, career changes and shifting responsibilities.

• Ashley Gossen, RCC works with adults experiencing burnout, anxiety and overwhelm, including the strain of balancing work, relationships and family life. Ashley provides virtual counselling across BC.

• Thea Megas, RCC-ACS works extensively with workplace burnout in both men and women, including chronic stress, anxiety, high responsibility, neurodivergent burnout, workplace conflict and difficulty recovering when work has become emotionally or mentally unsustainable.

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Looking specifically for burnout support for women? Our Burnout Therapy for Women page explores how mental load, perfectionism, people pleasing, high responsibility, neurodivergence and changing life demands can contribute to burnout in women.

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Need Ideas for your Next Steps?

• Book a Consult or Session. ​

• Read more on burnout prevention & recovery.

• Not sure which therapist may fit what you are looking for? Visit our Meet the Team page or complete our Therapist Matching Form to tell us a little more about the kind of support you are seeking.

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