Burnout

Once we enter adulthood, we are continually preparing for the next stage of life. This leads to a change in values and dip in life satisfaction. Happiness isn't tied to our external circumstances, yet we still find ourselves striving to meet some unmeetable goal. This leads us to be frustrated achievers who feel guilty or experience malaise despite good jobs, good families, and stable income. Acceptance, commitment, and action to change can help us escape the happiness trap.

Sometimes, burnout can feel like a dark tunnel with no end in sight. But here's the thing - it doesn't have to be this way. With my professional expertise and data-backed strategies, I can help guide you out of this tunnel. Together, we'll explore your stressors, identify coping mechanisms, and develop a personalized plan to restore balance in your life.

Burnout can show up in many ways, depending on the person. It might manifest as irritability, overwhelm, or feeling emotionally drained. For others, it could mean struggling with motivation or just feeling ready for a change in your personal or professional life. No matter how it presents for you, we’ll explore it together, identify your strengths (I promise you have them!), and develop a plan to help you break free from that feeling of being stuck.

Burnout is an all-too-common phenomenon in today's world, and it sometimes feels like we do a lot more talking about it than, well, doing anything about it. This is completely normal. After all, how are you supposed to address burnout when you're too burnt out to add something else to your plate? I have experience addressing burnout and compassion fatigue across sectors, including national healthcare systems, humanitarian aid organizations, non-profits, and the criminal justice system.

Usually we choose our jobs because we enjoy something about it. Burnout takes that joy, and dulls it, until we lose our passion and drive, and just feel drained and exhausted. It's a slow process, that leaves us suddenly realizing we have to change something, but left unsure what happened and what to change. When we work on burnout through therapy, we explore what's causing this feeling, and how we can create changes in meaningful and long-term ways.

Is your inner critic your worst boss ever? Are you asking yourself what you need to change about yourself in order to get to the place you want? Don't go down the same road that got you here wondering why you are not enjoying your success. What if the answer is to not change yourself, but to embrace and amplify your natural strengths and wisdom to allow the change that works for you?

If you are high-masking autistic, ADHD, or a highly sensitive person the world can feel pretty overwhelming. Together we can work to understand your nervous system and how to recover from burnout and increase your vagal tone. I also take a perspective that the world is typically not accommodating to neurodivergent people and often times burnout can be a symptom of that reality. I take a systems perspective and look at the bigger issues that contribute to burnout. I use a neurodiversity paradigm.

Balancing the demands of work and personal life can seem like a daunting task. Together, we will work on managing internal and external expectations and creating a balanced and fulfilling routine. We'll do this by identifying stressors, setting boundaries, and finding ways to implement self-care practices into your hectic daily life.

Providing therapy for burnout in Oregon, Colorado, and Florida, Jennifer Gray specializes in helping financial advisors and entrepreneurs recover from chronic stress and overwhelm. Using EMDR and actionable strategies, clients address perfectionism, set sustainable boundaries, and restore energy and focus. Jennifer’s personalized, integrative approach empowers individuals to regain balance, resilience, and fulfillment in both their personal and professional lives.

Burnout is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion (or both) that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity. It's important to note that solutions to burnout often involve changes in the external world and working environment. From a therapy standpoint, I work with burnout by helping clients identify the changes they would like to see, empowering and practicing advocacy, and using coping strategies in the interim.

You want to feel peaceful and content, but instead you are: overwhelmed by stress, totally burned out, and questioning if you will ever feel the rewards from your career as you once did. Each day feels like you are being stretched a bit thinner and you wonder how much you have left to give. Life doesn’t have to go on this way. It is my mission to provide scientifically informed psychotherapy for women experiencing professional burnout without sacrificing compassion and genuine concern.

You feel depleted. Your personal life and/or your health is suffering because you work all the time. You may be feeling jaded, cynical or hopeless in regards to your job. You are not doing the kind of work that you are capable of and you may feel like you just want to quit.

I have niche experience working with medical professionals such as physicians, nurses and medical trainees and directed a program at UNMC aimed at understanding burnout.

You're not feeling as productive at work and struggle to get up in the morning. You're desire in your relationships has waned and you just want to zone out most of the day. Calling out sick is becoming a weekly consideration. Burnout from work and your relationships is common AND treatable. Together we can help you identify the causes of burnout and create a plan to bring more meaning back to your life.

I have helped numerous clients find peace again in their lives after experiencing burnout and compassion fatigue. By finding methods of working through these issues such as mindfulness practices, self-compassion and various other methods of identifying self-care plans, and identifying work-life balance, I can help you get your life back on track again and rediscover a whole new quality to life!

Have you worked hard to have a career you're passionate about only to find yourself burned out and resentful? Burnout involves feelings of emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced feelings of accomplishment. While all people are prone to burnout, helping professionals are especially vulnerable. It is vitally important for those in jobs that involve healing to cultivate a discipline of hope and renewable "fuel" for our work.

I have experience working with burnout with the use of art. I have worked to develop a program that seeks to alleviate the symptoms of burnout.