Burnout Therapy in El Dorado Hills, Marin, SF + Online
Exhausted, overwhelmed, and burned out? Our holistic therapists can help.
Holistic Therapy for Burnout
When you’re exhausted in a way that sleep can’t fix, and no amount of time off helps. When you keep showing up for work, your family, and everyone who needs you, even when you’ve lost touch with your own needs. When you wake up and notice you can no longer feel peace, ease, or joy, and you wonder when the overwhelm will end…
Take a breath. You’re in the right place.
The truth is, burnout is what happens when your body can no longer metabolize the stress you’re experiencing. It’s not laziness, or some personal failing that keeps you from pushing through, it’s a depleted nervous system that has been carrying way too much for far too long.
Whether you’re coming here today overwhelmed and overflowing, or running on empty, what’s underneath it all is the same: a system with no room left for one more thing, and a you that keeps slipping further out of reach.
We want you to know: healing is possible.
Burnout is not permanent, and you don’t have to navigate it alone. Our burnout therapists can help you get to the root of what’s keeping you in an endless cycle of stress and overwhelm, so you can feel like yourself again. If you’re ready for support, we can help.
Click below to book your free consultation call and get matched with one of our burnout therapists!
"The cure for burnout is not ‘self-care’; it is all of us caring for one another." — Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Symptoms + Signs of Burnout
Burnout doesn’t arrive all at once. It builds slowly, in the mind, the body, the heart, and the spirit, which is exactly why so many people don’t recognize it in themselves until they’re in deep. See how many of these feel familiar:
Exhaustion that no amount of sleep, weekends off, or a dreamy vacation seems to fix
Brain fog that makes it hard to concentrate; you forget simple things and read the same email three times
Everything takes twice as long as it used to, and small decisions feel enormous
A growing cynicism or dread about work and roles you used to care about
A shorter fuse than you’d like, followed by guilt for snapping
Feeling numb, just going through the motions of your life
Dreading the week before it even starts
Wired and exhausted at the same time: anxious energy on the surface, depletion underneath
Waking up tired no matter how early you went to bed
Chronic tension in your jaw and shoulders, headaches, and an unsettled gut
Getting sick more often than you used to
Leaning on caffeine to start the day, and wine or scrolling to end it
A quiet "is this all there is?" that you can’t stop thinking about
Gratitude you know you should feel, but can’t seem to access
Feeling cut off from your intuition, your creativity, and your spirituality
Wait...This is Burnout?
Here’s what the clinical definition sometimes misses: burnout doesn’t always mean you’re totally collapsed and unable to function anymore. Burnout can surprisingly show up in a life you love, when you’re overscheduled, overstimulated, and running at a pace that’s too hot. If any of these ring true, you might be in the burnout zone:
You’re high-functioning and holding it all together, but you can’t remember the last time you felt truly rested and relaxed
You feel keyed up and on edge, like you’re never allowed to be done for the day
You love your life on paper, but you can’t seem to feel the joy of it all anymore
Rest is on your to-do list, but it never quite happens
You do the yoga and the meditation, take all the supplements, and you’re still running on empty
You keep saying you’ll slow down and take care of yourself "soon"
If you found yourself nodding along here, take heart. Knowing that you’re dealing with burnout is the first step on the healing journey.
The Five Stages of Burnout
Burnout can feel like you’re slowly drowning. Stress becomes overwhelm, overwhelm becomes the new norm, and before you know it, you’re burned out, often while you’re still performing beautifully! Here are the five stages of burnout, first mapped by psychologists Herbert Freudenberger and Gail North:
1. The Honeymoon
A new chapter begins and you’re all in. You feel energized, purposeful, and saying yes feels good. Underneath all the excitement, the stress has already started to collect.
2. The Onset of Stress
The daily load gets heavier. Good days still outnumber hard ones, but joy starts to feel nonexistent, and getting to the weekend is all you can think about.
3. Chronic Stress
Overwhelm becomes a permanent frequency. You keep moving faster to keep all the balls in the air, your patience is wearing thin, and your body is starting to shout. "I’ll slow down soon" becomes your new mantra.
4. Burnout
You. Hit. The. Wall. You may still be getting out of bed and getting everything done, but you’re running on autopilot, barely feeling a thing, and often on the verge of a meltdown.
5. Habitual Burnout
Running on empty stops feeling like a problem you’re trying to fix, and starts to feel like your new baseline. This is often the stage where people finally reach out for help.
Wherever you find yourself today, know that burnout is not a life sentence. It’s a signal from your nervous system, asking for attention and care. Burnout therapy can help.
Download Our Free Healing Burnout Guide
How to Heal Burnout:
A Holistic Therapist’s Guide
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Inside this guide, you'll find the three parts of burnout recovery, along with seven simple, powerful practices to help your body move stress all the way through, so you can get back to living your life.
When people ask ‘How do I heal from burnout?’ Here are the three medicines for burnout recovery we come back to again and again with clients: slow down, do less, and reconnect. Simple to name, and nearly impossible to do alone, because everything in you has been trained to keep going. That’s where therapy comes in.
Together with your therapist, you’ll learn how to complete the stress cycle (the framework Emily and Amelia Nagoski map out in their book Burnout), so the stress your body has been storing finally gets to move through. You’ll practice calming and regulating your nervous system in real time. And you’ll tend to the deeper patterns that keep you over-functioning: the perfectionism, the people-pleasing, the old programming that says you’re never doing enough.
Your therapist may combine somatic therapy with polyvagal-informed work to help your body move out of survival mode, IFS to befriend the over-functioning parts of you, Brainspotting or EMDR to process what’s been held in the nervous system, and mindfulness to rebuild your capacity for presence and deep rest.
The result? You learn to do less without the guilt, move through your days slower and more present, and reconnect: to yourself, to the people you love, and to the life you built. J
Join us in person for burnout therapy in El Dorado Hills (near Folsom and Sacramento), San Anselmo in Marin, San Francisco, or online across California.
How Does Burnout Therapy Work?
Benefits of Burnout Therapy
When you work with one of our burnout therapists, we can help you:
Complete the stress cycle, so stress stops short circuiting your body
Learn to calm and regulate an overwhelmed nervous system
Learn to do less, and slow down, without the guilt
Remember who you are underneath the to-do list
Get to the root of your burnout, instead of just treating your symptoms
Break up with perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the story that you’re never doing enough
Rebuild your capacity for joy, ease, and deep rest
Reconnect with your body, your intuition, and your heart
Practice self-care that actually works (and doesn’t become another task on the list)
Experience real connection as medicine, in therapy and in your life
Here’s what we know after years of doing this work: regulation isn’t the destination. It’s the doorway.
Once the stress cycle can complete and your body feels safe, something deeper opens up: self-love, reconnection with your essence, and the capacity for joy that burnout kept under wraps.
We believe true healing happens when we treat the whole person, not just the symptoms. That means we don't stop at helping you feel better. We walk the full path with you, from finding safety in your nervous system, to reconnecting with your heart, to remembering who you actually are underneath the pain, the programming, and the patterns.
Here’s the heart of our approach to burnout therapy:
Clinically Grounded, Spiritually Informed
Our work is rooted in evidence-based therapeutic methods. It's also informed by something deeper. We honor the spiritual dimensions of your life, not as an afterthought, but as an essential part of who you are and how you heal.
More Than Symptom Management
We look beneath the surface to understand what's actually driving your distress. The emotional threads, the body's signals, the patterns that started long before you had words for them. We're not interested in quick fixes. We want to unearth the root. For burnout, this means healing what keeps you stuck in a cycle of over-functioning, not just helping you rest more.
You Are Not Your Diagnosis
We view your struggles as messages worth listening to, not as evidence that there's something wrong with you. Our work honors you as a whole person, not a collection of problems to fix. We're here to help you reconnect with who you are beyond your symptoms and build the self-trust and self-love that are foundational to the healing journey. Burnout isn't who you are, it’s a symptom of a deeper disconnect and an invitation to deep healing.
Practical Skills + Deep Inner Work
Our sessions balance grounded, everyday strategies with deeper therapeutic exploration. Whether you're learning to regulate your nervous system, engaging in shadow work, or reconnecting with your inner child, you'll walk away with tools you can use right now and the deeper understanding that makes healing and change possible. For burnout, that means tools to complete the stress cycle starting today, and the deeper practices of learning to do less, slow down, and reconnect with yourself.
Ready to take the next step on your healing journey? Schedule a free consultation call to get started with one of our burnout therapists.
Burnout Therapy at The Holistic Counseling Center
Types of Therapy For Burnout We Offer:
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Holistic Therapy
Healing requires more than just changing your mind. Holistic therapy weaves together evidence-based clinical methods with practices that honor the mind, body, heart and spirit on your healing journey. -
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
Learn to identify and understand all the parts that make you 'you'. IFS helps you reclaim parts of yourself long ago abandoned, offering compassion where there has been judgment and understanding where there has been pain. The result? More peace, more ease, more freedom to live your life. -
Somatic Therapy
Your body encodes everything you experience in your life: memories, feelings, experiences, desires. Somatic therapy works directly with the body and nervous system, helping you move out of survival mode and release what talk therapy alone can't always reach. -
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Learn how to change your negative thought patterns and behaviors by working directly with the mind. CBT gives you practical, grounded tools you can use in your life right now. It's the gold standard for anxiety and depression because it works. -
EMDR Therapy
Your brain has an innate capacity to heal, but sometimes difficult experiences interrupt the process and can keep you stuck. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess trauma, stress, and deeply rooted patterns, releasing and rewiring what's been held in the mind, body, and nervous system. -
Spiritual Therapy
Why are we here? Why are we suffering? Spiritual therapy integrates clinical depth with the existential and spiritual dimensions of your experience, honoring that you are so much more than your diagnosis, your history, and your symptoms. This is where therapy meets something sacred.
Hi, I’m Kim Burris
Founder of The Holistic Counseling Center and A Licensed Therapist
I believe that being human is a practice, and we all need support.
I know burnout all too well. Not long ago I found myself asking, "How could I be burned out? I love everything happening in my life." I noticed that over time, there was too much on my plate, and I couldn’t slow down, and before I knew it, I didn’t know how to enjoy my life anymore. Every single thing felt like a task to complete, and I was just going through the motions. I learned how to move through it all with a lot of care, support, and simple but effective daily practices. This work matters to me because I think so many of us are silently struggling, and not aware that we are in or dangerously close to the burnout zone.
If this resonates, I’m so glad you’re here. I founded The Holistic Counseling Center because I’m passionate about helping people just like you heal the root cause of your burnout, so you can live an intentional life that you can actually enjoy.
I want you to know that all of you is welcome here. There’s nothing about you or your experience that is too much, too messy, or too hard. We see you, we honor you, and we’ll walk through it with you.
If you’re ready to take the next step on your burnout healing journey, we’d be honored to support you!
Burnout Therapists
Meet the Team
Kim Burris
Founder, Licensed Therapist, LMFT
Anxiety, Burnout, Shadow Work, Existential Crisis + Spirituality
Dr. Anjali Connors
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Anxiety, Trauma, Burnout, Depth Work, Life Transitions + Spirituality
Laura Avalos
Licensed Therapist, LPC
Associate Therapist, APCC
Anxiety, Grief, Burnout, Trauma, Motherhood + Spiritual Awakening
Amanda Gootee
Associate Therapist, AMFT
Anxiety, Trauma, Burnout, Spirituality, Relationships, Motherhood + Life Purpose.
Anna Rivett
Associate Therapist, AMFT
Self-Esteem, Burnout, Anxiety, Depression, Perfectionism + Trauma
Tina Marini
Associate THerapist, AMFT
Burnout, Anxiety, Trauma, Life Purpose + Authentic Relationships
Our Offices
The Holistic Counseling Center offers in-person therapy for burnout in El Dorado Hills, San Anselmo, San Francisco and online.
What People are Saying
★★★★★
"Laura is a healer, whose grounded, earthly presence is felt the moment you meet her... She has a natural ability to help people slow down, feel seen, and reconnect with themselves."
— Amber, San Anselmo
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"Tina is a warm and deeply attuned therapist who brings a truly holistic approach to her work. She integrates somatic therapy and Internal Family Systems in a way that supports clients in not only understanding the roots of their struggles but also feeling more grounded and connected in daily life."
— Teresa, Fairfax
★★★★★
"Of all the therapy I’ve done in my life, Kim’s way of cultivating and encouraging change has been the most profound and helpful process I’ve ever experienced. I’m so grateful to be working with her."
— Nicole, El Dorado Hills
Ready to Work Together?
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Want the full scoop on how to recover from burnout?
Our article How to Heal Burnout walks through the stages, the science, and seven ways to complete the stress cycle.
Read the article here
Burnout Therapy FAQs
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The best therapy for burnout goes deeper than stress-management tips, because burnout doesn’t live in your schedule. It lives in your nervous system.
Effective burnout therapy combines nervous system regulation with deeper work on the patterns that keep you over-functioning, like perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the belief that rest has to be earned.
Our therapists weave together somatic therapy, polyvagal-informed work, IFS, and mindfulness to help you complete the stress cycle and heal at the root.
You don’t need to know which approach is right for you before you start. That’s our job.
Schedule a free consultation call and we’ll match you with a therapist who fits your needs, personality, and goals.
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If exhaustion, overwhelm, or numbness are showing up in your work, your relationships, or your ability to enjoy your own life, therapy can help.
You might notice that rest doesn’t restore you anymore, that you’re more irritable or on edge than you’d like to admit, or that things you used to love now feel like items on a to-do list. You don’t have to wait until you hit a wall, and you don’t have to be in crisis to deserve support.
Many of our clients come to us because something feels off and they want more than surface-level solutions. If you’re wondering whether it’s time, that’s usually a sign that it is.
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Yes. In fact, this may be the most important thing on this page: burnout does not require collapse. You can be delivering at work, caring for everyone around you, and holding it all together, and still be burned out.
High-functioning burnout often goes unrecognized the longest, precisely because you keep carrying on. But chronic stress while still performing is still chronic stress, and it quietly depletes your nervous system and your capacity for joy, love, and connection. Therapy can help you heal before your body forces the issue. You deserve support now, not just after the wall.
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From the inside, they can feel similar, and they often overlap. Burnout is usually tied to specific roles and responsibilities in your life, and it tends to improve with nervous system support and real changes to your load.
Depression is less tied to any one area. It rolls in across your whole life and doesn’t lift just because you take a break. Burnout also travels closely with high-functioning anxiety: two expressions of the same over-functioning nervous system.
Please don’t try to diagnose yourself from a webpage. This is exactly the kind of question our therapists help you sort through, starting with a free consultation call.
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For most people, yes. Burnout recovery is not about escaping your life. It’s about learning to tend to yourself inside of it.
In therapy, you’ll learn how to discharge the stress your body has been carrying, complete the stress cycle, and make honest, doable changes to what’s coming in.
Sometimes bigger changes to your workload or role do turn out to be part of the path. If so, we’ll help you get clear from a regulated, resourced place, rather than a burned-out one. You don’t have to burn your life down to find your way back to yourself.
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The honest answer: it depends. How deep the depletion goes, how long it’s been building, and how much room there is for real change in your day-to-day load all shape the timeline.
Some people feel meaningful relief within weeks. For most, recovery unfolds over months, and if you’ve been running hot for years, it’s worth giving the recalibration at least a season. Your nervous system needs time to build new capacity, and that’s not a one-weekend project.
You’ll gain insight and practical tools from the very first sessions, and weekly sessions help build safety and momentum. However long it takes, it’s worth it: what’s waiting on the other side isn’t just feeling less tired. It’s getting your life back.
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Your sessions will be tailored to you, but most burnout therapy here includes a few common threads.
You’ll learn practical tools to calm and regulate your nervous system, starting right away. You’ll get compassionate help understanding your patterns: the over-functioning, the perfectionism, the never-enough story, and where they began. You’ll process the deeper roots at your own pace. And you’ll rebuild your capacity for rest, joy, and connection.
Sessions are warm and collaborative, blending supportive conversation with body-based practices you can use in your daily life.
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Look for a licensed therapist with training in nervous-system-informed care, and just as important, someone you actually feel safe with.
The right fit depends on their training, their style, your personality, and your history, and fit matters as much as credentials.
All of the burnout therapists here at The Holistic Counseling Center are licensed to practice psychotherapy and have advanced training in somatic and nervous-system-based approaches.
And if your therapist doesn’t feel like the right match, we’ll help you switch, no awkwardness and no explanations required.
Schedule a free consultation call and we’ll help you find the right person.
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Taking the first step toward healing burnout can feel overwhelming, but we’ve made the process simple and supportive. Here’s how to begin your healing journey:
1. Schedule a Free Consultation Call
Book a complimentary 15-minute consultation call with our team. During this call, we’ll:
Listen to what’s bringing you to therapy
Answer any questions you have about our approach to treating burnout
Discuss which of our therapists might be the best fit
Review practical details like fees, insurance, and scheduling
2. Your First Session If it feels like a good fit, we’ll schedule your first therapy for burnout session. Your initial session is an opportunity to:
Share your story in a safe, non-judgmental space
Explore what’s possible in therapy, and set some goals
Learn what tools you can start using to support your mind, body, heart and spirit
Create a personalized treatment plan that honors your unique struggles, goals and personality
3. Moving Forward After your first session, we’ll establish a regular therapy schedule that works for you. While weekly sessions are recommended initially to help establish safety and momentum in your healing journey, we understand that everyone’s circumstances are different and will work with you to find a rhythm that feels supportive and sustainable.
Ready to begin? You can schedule your free consultation call by:
Calling or texting us at 916.467.9539
Emailing us at admin@theholisticcounseling.center
We know reaching out for support takes courage, especially when you’re dealing with burnout. We’re honored to be part of your healing journey and are here to support you every step of the way.
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We offer burnout therapy throughout California.
You can meet with us in person at our offices in El Dorado Hills (near Folsom and Sacramento), San Anselmo in Marin County, and San Francisco, or work with us online from anywhere in California. Evening and weekend appointments are available.
Schedule a free consultation call to get started.
Make an Appointment with a Burnout Therapist
Burnout is not a life sentence, and you don’t have to keep living with an overwhelmed nervous system.
Our burnout therapists offer in-person sessions in El Dorado Hills, San Anselmo, and San Francisco, and online therapy across California, with evening and weekend appointments available.
Click below to schedule your free consultation call. Our intake coordinator will get to know what you’re looking for, answer your questions, and match you with a therapist who feels like a great fit.
Healing is possible, and it can start this week.