Specialist work
Burnout and chronic overload
Psychotherapeutic work with prolonged depletion, excessive demands, and difficulty recovering and setting limits.
Not all tiredness is burnout
Prolonged overload can show itself as depletion, irritability, reduced concentration and capacity to recover, a change in how you feel about your work, and a sense that your resources no longer stretch far enough.
States like these can have different causes. This page is not a self-assessment tool and does not replace professional judgement.
Personal patterns and the environment are not the same thing
Psychotherapy can help someone recognise their own patterns, limits and reactions. It cannot indefinitely compensate for an environment of chronic excessive demand, poor management, or other organisational problems.
Part of the work can be exactly that distinction — what is yours to change, what is not, and what can be done about the second.
How the work can go
The work may look at how you recognise tiredness and your own limits, difficulty saying no, the need to be constantly productive, your relationship to rest, and the bodily signals that come before depletion.
Where it fits, Diana's body-oriented training can be one perspective — for instance on how tension, breathing and the impulse to act change long before a person notices they have reached their limit.
How the work proceeds is set by the particular person, not by a general model of exhaustion.
The medical boundary
Prolonged fatigue, disturbed sleep and physical symptoms can also have medical causes. Psychotherapy does not replace a medical assessment where a physical illness or another condition may be contributing.
If you are already under treatment, psychotherapy can run alongside it. A psychotherapist does not change prescribed medication.
If this comes through your employer
If your organisation works with Integria, sessions may be included in the company programme. Your employer does not learn what you discuss.