You took the vacation. You came back feeling the same way. The problem probably isn't the workload.

The usual advice is to rest more, delegate more, set better boundaries. You've probably tried most of it. Maybe you even took real time off. And within a couple of weeks of returning, the same weight came back, as if it had been waiting for you.

That's because burnout in executives often isn't about working too many hours. It's about the emotional cost of the work: carrying chronic responsibility without adequate support, maintaining a version of yourself that takes constant effort, and having an identity so tied to output that stopping feels like disappearing.

Rest doesn't fix that. Sometimes what feels like post-holiday anxiety is actually a moment of clarity about how unsustainable the current arrangement has become.

Executive burnout usually sits on top of older patterns. An inability to stop because identity has become enmeshed with constant output. A relationship with work where your sense of value as a person depends on the next deliverable. Chronic overfunction that started well before this particular role.

The cynicism, the emotional flatness, the inability to care about things you used to care about: these aren't character flaws. They're signals that the internal cost of how things are currently set up has exceeded what you can sustain.

A lot of people build elaborate systems of "trying to change" that look productive but function as avoidance. If that sounds familiar, the issue probably isn't willpower. It's that the pattern is serving a function that hasn't been identified.

Therapy for burnout works at the level of the pattern, not the symptoms. We look at what's driving the overwork: what it would mean to stop, what you're avoiding by staying in motion, why the idea of doing less feels threatening rather than freeing.

I'm a licensed psychotherapist with 18+ years in B2B SaaS, including advising 50+ companies on growth. I understand the environment well: the always-on culture, the ambiguity, the pressure to appear certain when you're not.

The goal isn't necessarily to make you work less (though that might happen). The goal is to change your relationship to the work so it costs less. Sometimes that means structural changes. Sometimes something shifts internally and the same role becomes sustainable. The work helps clarify which.

The first session is 60 minutes, free, and exploratory. We figure out what's underneath the exhaustion and whether therapy is the right approach.

The first session is free, 60 minutes, no obligations. We figure out what's going on and whether this is the right approach.