Burnout therapy
Therapy to help you feel clear-headed, grounded, and connected again.
Online somatic Burnout therapy for adults in Florida and Illinois.
Burnout therapy that works with both mind and body can help when stress has settled deep into your system. You’ve built a good life and care about your health, but the weight you’re carrying is more than your body can keep holding. You might feel wired yet exhausted, tense even during downtime, or too depleted to enjoy the life you’ve worked so hard for. You hold it together on the outside, but inside, your system is stuck in overdrive or shutdown. And even when you try things like meditation, eating clean, or moving your body, it doesn’t bring the lasting relief you’re looking for.
Burnout therapy from a somatic, mind-body perspective offers something deeper. We work directly with your nervous system, not just your thoughts, so we’re not relying on willpower or insight alone. That means slowing down, tuning into what your body has been holding, and supporting it in ways that create real shifts. We gently pay attention to what’s happening physically while also allowing space for reflection, insight, and emotional processing. This work is about creating room to feel, process, and begin to heal in a way that feels grounded. It offers a path toward sustainable change that doesn’t rely on pushing through.
When Willpower and Insight Aren’t Enough
If you’ve already tried talk therapy, mindfulness, or making lifestyle changes and still feel stuck in burnout, you’re not alone. It’s not that those things didn’t help—it’s that burnout affects your whole system. It’s wired into your body, not just your thoughts.
That’s why this work includes a mind-body approach that helps your nervous system shift out of survival mode. We work gently with what your body has been holding, so you can feel more grounded, clear, and able to respond in ways that align with how you want to live. Alongside Somatic Experiencing, we may integrate tools like SSP, RRP, and lifestyle-focused support depending on what feels most helpful for your system.
About Me
Hi, I’m Amy Hagerstrom, LCSW.
I’m a licensed therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, offering online therapy for adults across Florida.
I’m so glad you’re here.
I help people who are carrying too much stress, living under constant pressure, and trying to keep up when their bodies are already exhausted. Maybe you’re holding it together on the outside, but inside you feel wired, drained, or both. Whether it’s work demands, relationship strain, or the invisible load of keeping everything running, I’m here to support you.
Together, we’ll tune into what your nervous system needs, so you can feel clearer, more present, and with more energy to meet what life asks of you.
If you’ve been pushing through, staying productive, or doing all the right things but still feel depleted, this therapy offers a way to heal from burnout and build the capacity to actually enjoy your life again.
Signs You’ve Been Carrying Too Much for Too Long
Sleep problems or waking up still tired
Trouble relaxing or feeling “off” even during downtime
Physical tension, headaches, or digestive discomfort
Irritability, reactivity, or emotional shutdown
Brain fog, trouble focusing, or decision fatigue
Feeling disconnected from yourself or others
Burnout from work, caregiving, or life pressures
Shame, guilt, or frustration with how you’re coping
Sensitivity to stress from earlier life experiences
Using food, alcohol, or distraction to manage emotions
These aren’t just signs of being busy. They’re signals that your body is carrying too much.
If you’ve been feeling worn down, it makes sense because your nervous system has been working overtime.
Mind-body therapy helps you tune into what your body is telling you and respond in ways that bring relief, resilience, and a greater sense of capacity in your daily life.
What Sessions Are Like: Burnout therapy That Meets You Where You Are
Burnout and overwhelm don’t show up the same way every day. Your therapy sessions won’t either.
Some days, you might need space to slow down and catch your breath. Other days, we’ll explore what’s been pushing you past your limits. If your nervous system is stuck in overdrive or checked out completely, we’ll work with that. Gently.
I’ll help you notice what’s happening underneath and together we’ll find what helps your mind and body settle.
This is a gentle process, but it’s not passive.
We’ll take small, manageable steps, called titration, so you’re not diving into overwhelm. And we’ll shift between challenge and relief, known as pendulation, to help your nervous system build real capacity instead of pushing through another day.
Pausing and tuning in is a central part of the work. Sometimes I support you to be with uncomfortable sensations in your body, building the capacity to stay present with them. Other times we explore what your body is needing, such as pushing on a wall or the desk, squeezing your fists, or grounding through the surface beneath you.
These practices create the space for lasting change.
My Mind-Body Approach to Burnout therapy
Here are some of the tools we might use in our work together, depending on what feels most supportive for your nervous system:
Somatic Experiencing (SE): SE helps us work with the physical impact of long-term stress and burnout. When your body is stuck in high alert or total shutdown, it takes more than mindset shifts to feel better. With SE, we gently notice what your nervous system is doing and guide it toward something new. That’s where energy, clarity, and a stronger sense of yourself can begin to return.
Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) (optional) : SSP uses filtered music to help your nervous system register safety again, so you’re not always bracing, scanning, or stuck in vigilance. Many people notice they can breathe easier, think more clearly, or tolerate connection without feeling on edge. You just listen, and I’ll guide you through the process.
Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP) (optonal): RRP is especially helpful when burnout leaves you feeling flat, disconnected, or deeply exhausted. It helps your body reconnect to its natural rhythm and supports rest that actually restores. You don’t have to power through. This work meets you in stillness and helps you feel again.
Integrative Mental Health: I’m also certified in integrative mental health, which means we can explore how your lifestyle supports or hinders your healing. If it feels helpful, we might look at nutrition, sleep, movement, gut health, and time outdoors—factors that play a powerful role in mood, energy, and resilience. These patterns don’t just influence your physical health; they shape your capacity for emotional and nervous system regulation too.
I also bring a developmental lens to this work. Burnout doesn’t always begin with your current responsibilities or daily habits. Often, the patterns of over-functioning, pushing through, or ignoring what your body needs started much earlier in life. Therapy helps bring awareness and healing to those deeper patterns, so you can respond differently now.
With support, it’s possible to feel more resilient, more steady, and more connected to the life you’ve worked so hard to build.
Understanding What’s Beneath the Burnout
Even when life looks fine on the outside, your nervous system may still be stuck in survival mode. If you’ve spent years managing, achieving, or staying strong for everyone else, it makes sense that your mind and body eventually start to wear down.
Burnout is more than being tired. It happens when your body never gets the pause it needs. Underneath the exhaustion is a nervous system that’s bracing, pushing, or shutting down instead of resting and recovering.
These patterns don’t always begin with your current responsibilities. They can go back as far as childhood, shaped by pressure to keep going, to take care of others, or to avoid letting people down.
You might notice burnout showing up now as:
Saying yes when you’re at your limit
Struggling to fully rest, even when you try
Feeling like you have to earn your breaks
Over-apologizing or over-explaining
Pushing past exhaustion until your body forces a stop
These patterns often start early as ways to cope, but they don’t have to define how you live now. Therapy helps you recognize where they came from and create new ways of responding that don’t depend on depletion or disconnection.
Together, we’ll gently explore what your body has been holding and offer the kind of support it may have needed all along.
What Can Shift as We Do This Work
As your nervous system begins to settle, you may notice changes like:
Less tension in your jaw, chest, or gut
Sleep that restores you and energy that returns naturally
Clearer awareness of what you need and the ability to honor it
A greater sense of presence and ease in your day
Feeling more connected and less reactive with the people who matter to you
The ability to pause before saying yes or pushing past your limits
You don’t have to keep living in cycles of burnout, disconnection, or powering through.
With consistent support, it’s possible to feel more steady inside, more confident in yourself, and more able to live in line with your values. This is what makes life feel meaningful and sustainable.
Therapy, Wherever You Are
You don’t need to leave home to get the kind of support that actually helps. I offer online therapy to adults across Florida, including Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, West Palm Beach, and nearby areas. Whether you're feeling stuck in cycles of stress, burnout, or disconnection, we can do this work together from a space that already feels familiar and safe.
I'm also licensed in Chicago and throughout Illinois and work with clients throughout the state.
Burnout therapy FAQs
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Stress is a natural part of life. It ramps up your system when something challenging is happening, and usually, when the stressor passes, your body settles again. Burnout is different—it happens when that stress state never truly shuts off.
With burnout, your nervous system stays in survival mode for too long. You may feel exhausted no matter how much you sleep, emotionally flat or reactive, and disconnected from things you used to enjoy. Somatic therapy helps us work with this difference directly: we’re not just managing stress, we’re helping your body relearn how to come out of survival mode so recovery is possible.
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Yes. When your nervous system has been in survival mode for a long time, it’s not just “stress in your head” — it’s a full-body state. Prolonged burnout keeps your system on high alert or completely shut down, which can deplete your mood, hormones, immunity, and energy. Over time, this makes you more vulnerable to depression, anxiety, digestive issues, headaches, chronic pain, or feeling emotionally flat and disconnected.
Burnout therapy addresses this directly by making space for what your body has been holding while also allowing for reflection and insight. Through mind-and-body work like Somatic Experiencing and integrative approaches, you begin to reset your nervous system so your mood, energy, and physical health have a chance to recover instead of staying stuck in survival mode.
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Burnout therapy goes beyond symptom management. It helps you understand what’s driving the fatigue, disconnection, and reactivity that won’t lift just by resting. In this work, we use mind and body approaches like Somatic Experiencing to notice where stress is still living in your system and support it in shifting. Sometimes that means creating more space for rest and calm, and other times it means building the capacity to stay present when emotions feel heavy.
This isn’t about being told to “set better boundaries” or “just slow down.” Instead, we focus on why those things feel so hard in the first place, and what your nervous system needs to actually follow through. The goal is long-term healing: a shift from survival mode into a steadier, more sustainable rhythm where you can connect with yourself and others again.
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Talk therapy often focuses on thoughts and coping strategies, which can be valuable. But when burnout or stress is deeply embodied—showing up as tightness in your chest, trouble sleeping, or feeling shut down—insight alone isn’t enough.
Somatic therapy works directly with your nervous system. Through Somatic Experiencing, we slow down, track what your body is holding, and gently support it in releasing tension or regaining energy. We also bring in reflection and integrative strategies for your daily life, so the changes you feel in session can carry into work, relationships, and routines. It’s not just about understanding yourself differently, but actually feeling different in your body.
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This work usually isn’t short-term. Burnout often builds over years, so it makes sense that healing takes time.
Weekly sessions give your system the consistent support it needs to shift, and they also help us build trust and momentum together.
Some people with very specific goals feel much better after a few months. But most of my clients are navigating complex burnout, trauma, or stress that has been layered into their nervous system for a long time. For them, the work tends to unfold over a longer stretch. Because this therapy includes both mind and body, it creates space for deeper healing, growth, and change—not just temporary relief.
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All sessions are currently offered online.
Many clients find that virtual sessions actually support this work—you’re in a familiar environment, with more control over your space, and often your system feels safer and more able to settle.
Whether you’re in Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Delray Beach, or anywhere else in Florida or Illinois, we can do this work together from wherever you are.
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I don’t accept insurance, but I can provide a monthly superbill if you’d like to submit for out-of-network reimbursement. Some clients are able to get partial reimbursement depending on their plan.
You’ll always know the cost up front. Under federal law (the No Surprises Act), you’re entitled to a Good Faith Estimate of the expected cost of services. If you ever receive a bill $400 or more over that estimate, you can dispute it.
Get Help with Burnout Therapy
Burnout can leave you feeling like a shell of yourself, exhausted, on edge, and wondering why everything feels so hard, even when nothing looks wrong on the outside.
You’ve pushed through for a long time. But now your body is sending signals that it can’t keep going this way.
You don’t have to keep bracing, numbing, or second-guessing your limits.
With somatic therapy, we’ll work gently with your nervous system. The focus isn’t on quick fixes or powering through, but on creating real, lasting change.
If you’re ready for support that helps you feel more grounded, clear, and connected, I’d be honored to work with you.
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