How I work with this
In working with burnout, I rely on the tools of schema therapy and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP). We examine in detail the persistent patterns of thinking and behavior formed in childhood (early maladaptive schemas) that drive you to sacrifice your own comfort. We often uncover a tendency to divide your experience into "perfect success" or "complete failure" with no shades in between (splitting), which creates unbearable pressure on the psyche.
Our shared goal is to develop the ability to see yourself as a whole person who has the right both to achievement and to fatigue (identity integration). By analyzing what happens directly between us in the consulting room (exploring the transference), we can notice how you try to be a "convenient" or "productive" client for me. Understanding this dynamic helps build a new, more stable foundation — especially for people whose psyche tends to punish itself harshly for failing to meet high ideals (which is often seen in a neurotic personality structure).
Do you recognise yourself?
- ✓ A feeling of exhaustion that does not go away even after a full night's sleep or a long vacation
- ✓ loss of interest in activities
- ✓ cynicism or deep indifference toward work and the people around you
- ✓ difficulty concentrating
- ✓ a sense of helplessness and an inability to cope with basic daily tasks
- ✓ constant background guilt over your own unproductiveness and inactivity
- ✓ living each day mechanically, without the ability to feel joy
- ✓ strong inner irritability at the slightest request or demand from the outside world
If you recognised 3+ points — it is a good reason to talk to a psychologist.
Approach & Methodology
Emotional burnout is not simply the result of intense work, but a deep inner conflict in which the psyche loses its ability to withstand the tension between extremely high demands on oneself and natural human limitations. Often behind this state lies a merciless inner voice that forces you to be flawless, always available to others, and allows no right to weakness. Spending enormous resources on maintaining an idealized self-image, a person gradually cuts off their own living feelings, suppressing anger, pain, or sadness.
When inner reserves are depleted, a protective numbness sets in. The psyche literally switches off sensitivity in order to survive. Instead of ambition, only emptiness and the automatic performance of functions remain. My task as a therapist is not simply to help you "quickly recharge the battery," but to explore together the unconscious mechanisms that make you ignore your own needs again and again for the sake of approval or achievement — so that you can ultimately find your way back to a genuine, living sense of yourself.
Questions & Answers
Won't I lose my ambition and success if I stop demanding so much of myself?
This fear accompanies many clients. Therapy does not destroy your capacity for work — it helps you change the source of your energy. You will learn to rely on healthy interest and your own values rather than on the fear of being rejected or on inner punishment.
How quickly will I feel interest in life and work again?
Emotional burnout developed over a long period of time. The psyche needs space to restore its sensitivity after a prolonged protective, emotionless state (affective freezing). The first therapeutic step is allowing yourself genuine tiredness and acknowledging your limits — and only after that does a living interest gradually begin to return.
Why doesn't a vacation help me recover anymore?
A vacation provides a physical respite, but it does not stop the deep inner conflict. If your inner critic keeps demanding results or punishing you for inactivity even on the beach, the psyche cannot relax. In therapy, we work precisely with this mechanism of inner pressure.
How will our conversations in session help with my exhaustion from work?
In the consulting room you will unconsciously reproduce your habitual patterns of behavior — for example, trying to "work well" on yourself while expecting my evaluation. By exploring these reactions toward me (transference analysis), we will see, through direct experience, the way you exhaust yourself and find a safer path toward a more caring attitude to your own psyche.
Process
How the work unfolds
Initial contact
Write in the messenger or leave a request on the site. Do not look for the right words — I will help you carefully start our journey and we will choose a convenient meeting time.
First consultation
A safe space for acquaintance, where you will feel if my approach suits you. This meeting does not oblige you to anything and only helps determine the next steps.
Regular therapy
Meetings are held 1-2 times a week for 50 minutes, online or face-to-face. A stable schedule is necessary for deep transformation and the development of your internal supports.
Payment and booking
The session fee is 50 USD (in hryvnias). Please read the Public Offer. The time is finally reserved and confirmed after payment.
Contact
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