Burnout Is Often a Loss of Meaning (Not Just Exhaustion)

At a glance

  • Telehealth only • You must be physically in CA, GA, or FL at the time of session

  • Best fit: high-performing adults • burnout • shutdown • “I can’t access myself”

  • Pace: steady, resourced (deep without overwhelming)

  • Languages: English + Hebrew (native)

  • Contact: contact form only

I'm an EMDRIA Certified Therapist™ offering EMDR therapy integrated with Jungian depth psychology for burnout recovery and the restoration of meaning.

Burnout can look like exhaustion — and still be something deeper

Burnout often includes physical fatigue and emotional depletion. But for many high-performing adults, the most significant aspect is something quieter and more disorienting: a loss of meaning.

You may still be capable. You may still be functioning. But the inner connection that used to organize your life—purpose, care, vitality, felt sense—goes dim. Motivation becomes mechanical. Even rest doesn’t fully restore you, because what’s missing isn’t only energy. It’s meaning.

Why meaning matters in recovery

Coming out of burnout is often associated with the restoration of meaning. Not as a pep talk or a new productivity system—but as a lived experience: feeling connected again to what matters, what’s true, what’s sustainable.

In therapy, we take burnout seriously as information. We listen for:

  • what you’ve been carrying that is no longer workable

  • where your life has become disconnected from your values or inner life

  • what your nervous system has been doing to keep you going

  • what needs to change so you don’t “recover” into the same pattern

How I work with burnout

This work is structured and collaborative. We move at a pace that supports real change.

Often the arc includes:

  • Clarifying the pattern: What does burnout look like in your system—alarm, urgency, collapse, numbness, shutdown?

  • Stabilizing the foundation: Grounding, resourcing, sleep and rhythm support, and practical boundaries (the work needs somewhere to land).

  • Working at deeper layers: When appropriate, EMDR can help process what keeps the pattern locked in place—so you’re not trying to “think your way out” of a nervous-system response.

  • Integration: The goal is not simply relief. It’s sustainable renewal: choices, pacing, and meaning that hold.

Best-fit signs

This may be a fit if:

  • you’re high-performing and you’ve hit a wall (burnout, anxiety spikes, shutdown)

  • you’re insightful, but insight alone isn’t shifting your lived experience

  • you want depth work that stays grounded and practical

  • you want therapy that is steady, structured, and not performative

Not the best fit

This may not be the right setting if:

  • you need urgent or crisis-level support

  • you’re outside CA/GA/FL during sessions

  • you’re looking for advice-only coaching rather than psychotherapy

Related: Am I ready for trauma processing? • When therapy plateaus

Next step: If you’re physically located in CA, GA, or FL at the time of session and this resonates, you can reach out via the contact form.

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