Psychotherapy for Burnout, Career Change and Life Transitions in Edinburgh

What we may work with

• Burnout, emotional exhaustion and the feeling that you have been running on empty.
• Work pressure, responsibility and the difficulty of stepping back.
• Professional identity — who you are when the role changes.
• Ambition, and its more complicated undersides.
• Redundancy, career change and the meanings you attach to them.
• Retirement and the loss of structure, purpose or status.
• Parenthood and other substantial changes in role.
• Relocation and the disorientation that can follow.
• Relationship changes prompted by, or overlapping with, other transitions.
• Loss of meaning, direction or interest.
• The tension between external achievement and internal uncertainty.
• The limitations of problem-solving and self-discipline for problems that are not really practical problems.
• Feeling trapped by a life that appears successful.
• The emotional consequences of major change, welcome or otherwise.

What this is not

This is not career strategy, performance coaching or business consultancy. It is psychotherapy, which is a different kind of work. It does not aim to make you more productive; it aims to help you understand what you are experiencing and how you want to respond to it.

If the pressure you are carrying is closely bound up with professional responsibility and identity, there is a related page on psychotherapy for professionals under pressure.