Therapy to help you feel clear-headed, grounded, and connected again.
Somatic Therapy for Burnout
Virtual Burnout Support in Florida and Illinois
You’ve built a good life. You’re successful in many ways. You care about your health. But the stress you’re carrying is more than your body can keep up with.
You hold it together during the day, yet your body feels it. A tight chest. A clenched jaw. Wired energy. Or complete exhaustion. You keep getting things done, but it costs you sleep, peace of mind, and the ability to enjoy the life you’ve worked so hard for.
Maybe you’ve tried meditation or fitness routines to feel better. You try to eat clean, but then you just can’t keep it up because you’re so burnt out. You’re tired of powering through.
You want real relief, the kind that lets your body settle, your energy return, and space to actually enjoy your life.
This is where mind-body therapy comes in. It offers real support for healing, not just another way to push through.
Burnout doesn’t just live in your schedule. It shows up in your nervous system. That’s why problem-solving or thinking your way out of it rarely works.
Mind-body therapy helps your nervous system relearn what it feels like to settle. We slow things down, pay attention to what your body is carrying, and build capacity piece by piece. Over time, stress feels less consuming, and you have more space for clarity and choice.
This kind of work not only supports healing, it also makes room for growth. You may notice feeling more confident in yourself, more connected to what matters, and more resilient when life is demanding.
Florida Burnout Therapist
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): 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): 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.
These tools are designed to work together. Somatic Experiencing is the core of our work. When it’s supportive, we can integrate SSP or RRP to meet your nervous system exactly where it is. I’ll help you figure out what’s most useful based on how you’re feeling and what your body has been carrying.
I also bring a developmental lens to this work. Burnout doesn’t always begin with your current responsibilities. 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, 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 Illinois and work with clients throughout the state.
Burnout Therapy FAQs
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Burnout therapy goes beyond symptom management. It helps you understand what’s driving the constant fatigue, disconnection, and emotional reactivity.
We look at how your mind and body have adapted to long-term stress, and we work with those patterns gently and directly. You won’t be told to just “rest more” or “set better boundaries.” Instead, we focus on helping your nervous system actually be able to do those things.
The goal is to shift your baseline from survival mode to something steadier and more sustainable, where you have the capacity to rest, recover, and reconnect with what matters to you.
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Talk therapy often focuses on thoughts, insight, and coping strategies. That can be valuable, but when your body is stuck in a stress response, insight alone isn’t enough.
Somatic therapy works directly with your nervous system and the physical experience of stress. We slow down, notice how your body is responding, and gently support it in shifting, whether that means releasing tension, building energy, or feeling more grounded. We also focus on creating more capacity, so you can handle stress without it draining you as quickly.
It’s about listening to what your body is holding and responding in a way that helps you actually feel different, not just think differently.
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Weekly sessions are an important part of how I work. Showing up weekly creates the rhythm and consistency this process needs. It helps us build trust, get momentum, and support lasting change.
This work makes space for what your body has been holding, while also allowing emotional processing, insight, and reflection to come forward. Both mind and body are part of the healing.
On rare occasions, someone with a very specific event or trigger may only need a few months of therapy. But most people are working through more complex burnout, long-term stress, or trauma. For them, the work often unfolds over a longer stretch of time. With consistent support, it’s possible to heal at a deeper level and rebuild the resilience needed to feel steady, clear, and connected.
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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, 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 from a Florida Burnout Therapist
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.
Ready for Support That Actually Helps? Reach Out Today
If you’re interested in a free 10-minute consultation, please fill out the form on my Contact page.
If you have any questions, you can include them in the form as well. I’ll be glad to respond.