Specialist 1:1 Burnout Psychotherapy.

I help professionals prevent and recover from burnout.

✅ 1:1 Online Psychotherapy

👉 Free Consultation

1:1 Burnout Psychotherapy

…you’re exhausted – and can’t “push through” anymore.

But, the same drive you use to succeed can be the same thing causing you to burnout.

It’s driven by a stress response that has forgotten how to switch off.

Together, we uncover what’s keeping you stuck, break the cycles driving your burnout and help you recover without losing your ambition:

Relieve Symptoms

Reverse the symptoms of burnout with simple techniques that are backed by behavioural science. 

Break Burnout Cycles

Get personalised insights and a clear plan to escape the stress loops that are keeping you stuck.

Sustain Performance

Unlock your career potential and discover the psychology tools that high-performers use to thrive.

Restore Your Identity

Rebuild confidence, capacity and emotional resilience back into your daily life.

“I burned out constantly and had no idea that understanding the way my mind works would transform my life…

…running a business, while being a parent, was overwhelming me most days. But understanding my stress cycles by spotting them early and processing my emotions in real time, finally helped me get back on my feet.”

Imogen Keller

Startup Founder

“My sessions with Dave recently have been instrumental in helping me cope with overwhelming stress at my place of work“


J McKinnon

Accountant

“I would highly recommend Dave’s burnout treatment. I have benefited from a shift/re-set of underlying stress I didn’t know were there”


Alley

Consultant

“Dave helped me through burnout… I found the 1:1 sessions insightful, practical and easy to apply to my own and professional life“


Allison L.

Producer


Welcome!

I’m David – a Burnout Psychotherapist.

Since 2018, I’ve successfully treated burnout as a system-wide condition by combining psychotherapy, coaching, somatic work and depth psychology to help my clients restore their capacity and feel in control again.


How it works

The 3-Step-Solution for Professionals Burning Out.

For High Achievers, Leaders, Entrepreneurs and Founders .

Understand what’s actually driving your burnout

Burnout isn’t failure, it’s an overprotective stress response that’s been running for too long.

“Ah… this isn’t just my work. This is how I’ve been wired to operate.”

Regulate an overactive stress response

You can’t think your way out of burnout, because it isn’t a mindset problem, it’s a body-level stress response that’s stuck.

“Wait… I don’t have to live feeling constantly on edge anymore?”

Build a life with sustainable capacity

Burnout recovery is about matching your resources with your demands.

“I’m performing at high-levels but it’s not costing my wellbeing.”

Burnout Cost Over 10 Years

Personal Burnout Cost Calculator

Burnout can significantly reduce your lifetime earning potential. Click here for an in-depth summary.

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Don’t Waste Time Making These Mistakes:

No more guessing. No more self-help. Just expert 1:1 guidance, optimised for burnout recovery.

❌ Treat symptoms instead of causes by trying every self-help hack hoping one finally sticks. Meditation, breath-work, cold plunges, yoga, supplements – all great ideas, but ignore chronic unconscious stress patterns.

❌ Relying on your doctor or medication to “fix it”, which may help stabilise you, but can’t rewire your stress response, prevent relapses or rebuild a regulated nervous system and sustainable way of living.

❌ Attempt recovering alone using the wrong support like generalised talk therapy, self-help or short-term hacks, without changing the stress patterns that keep you stuck.

❌ Forcing yourself to “push through” by working harder to fix problems, while ignoring your own needs. This works for a while, but these are the same stress patterns that keep you stuck.

❌ Fail to make recovery stick by falling back into old patterns of overworking and not spotting early warning signs – these can leave you drained and feeling hopeless.

Priority support

Your all-in-one burnout solution.

The modern world is primed for you to burnout, but high achievers stay ahead with regular, expert psychotherapeutic support.

  • Specialised 1:1 burnout psychotherapy
  • 24/5 messaging access

Complete Blueprint

The 1:1 Burnout Solution Formula.

Follow the exact step-by-step system that professionals use to master their stress cycles and grow their capacity.

Lifetime Access

The 100% Free Burnout Solution Hub

Practical, expert-guided burnout prevention tools that work when you need them.

  • Shift from “wired and tired” to grounded in under 5 minutes, with proven tools.
  • One place to manage burnout, that tells you exactly what to do next.

Premium guidance

Stress management that just works.

High-functioning people require high-touch psychotherapy in order to prevent burnout and protect their wellbeing.

  • Faster recovery after stressful days
  • Clearer thinking under pressure
  • Improved emotional stability

The 1:1 Burnout Solution

Follow the formula designed to prevent & recover from burnout.

1:1 specialised psychotherapy, twice-weekly sessions and continuous 24/5 messaging support.

Resolve the patterns behind burnout

Burnout is built on stress patterns shaped over many years. But the drive that helped you succeed is now what’s keep you stuck.

Regulate your stress response in real-time

Symptoms of burnout are signals from your body asking for change. By learning how to listen, you can quickly shift from stress into recovery.

Shift the root-cause of your burnout

Burnout doesn’t start in your workload. It’s shaped by earlier experiences, identity, and unconscious patterns that quietly drive how you operate.

Clear thinking while under pressure

Burnout negatively effects your professional life. By regulating your stress patterns, your performance will start to improve.

Clear thinking while under pressure

Burnout negatively effects your professional life. By regulating your stress patterns, your performance will start to improve.

“Dave has helped me with my anxiety/panic issues for quite some time and the sessions have been life altering for me.”


C Lopez.

Software Dev.

“Dave put me at ease and so quickly helped me unravel what’s been keeping me stuck in my burnout loop for years!”


P. Adams

Healthcare Ass.

“My experience with Dave is nothing short of exceptional. He is professional, kind and dedicated to his practice.”


Theta.

Real Estate Agent

See what difference the right support can make.

Choose the level of guidance that matches the kind of burnout support you need.

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Telehealth Apps

NHS Therapies

Wait Time

  • Immediate
  •  Immediate
  •  6+ Months

Burnout Expertise

  • Specialised
  •  Generalist
  •  None

Session Frequency

  • 2x Weekly
  •  Variable
  •  Inconsistent

24/5 Messaging

  • Yes
  •  Limited
  •  None

Stress Management

  • Expertise
  •  None
  •  None

Evidenced Based

  • Yes
  •  Limited
  • Yes 

Depth of Sessions

  • Root-Cause
  •  Surface-Level
  •  Quick-Fix

Priority Care

  • Individual Focus
  •  High Turnover
  •  Over-Stretched

100% Free Consultation


This solution is not for you if:

❌ You’re not in a place to commit time, attention, or energy to your own recovery right now.

❌ You want to handle burnout entirely on your own, with self-help techniques.

❌ You’re hoping for a quick-fix without exploring the deeper patterns driving your stress.

❌ You’re looking for productivity hacks you can passively consume with a course.

❌ You want something light, casual and surface-level rather than depth-oriented 1:1 sessions.

This solution is for you if:

✅ You want to work 1:1 with a burnout psychotherapist weekly, going deeper than surface-level coping strategies.

✅ You’ve tried self-help, doctors, or powering through alone but still feel stuck.

✅ You regularly feel overwhelmed, exhausted and like your brain & body isn’t functioning optimally.

✅ You’re a perfectionist struggling to problem-solve your way out of burnout.

✅ You’re ready to stop working harder and being stuck in burn out cycles.


No Wait Times

👉 Free Consultation

The 1:1 Burnout Solution

£1200 per month on a flexible pay-as-go model.
£150 per session on a weekly session model.

Fully supported, high-touch psychotherapy with twice-weekly private sessions and continuous 24/5 messaging support.

  • Twice Weekly 1:1 Sessions: Eight 50-minute online sessions per month, scheduled flexibly to your schedule.
  • 24/5 Between-Session Support: Continued voice and message support outside of weekly sessions.
  • The Burnout Solution Hub: 100% lifetime access to real-time burnout regulation tools used by high-performing professionals.
  • Designed Specifically for Burnout Recovery: Tailored for professionals experiencing burnout, high-functioning anxiety, and chronic stress. 
  • Flexible Structure: Pay-as-you-go style monthly sessions, you control the length of the program to suit you.
  • Immediate Access: Avoid long waiting lists, skip months-long queues and ensure timely support. 
  • Whole-System Approach: We work with nervous system regulation, psychological patterns, symptom reduction, work structures, personal trauma and behavioural loops, treating burnout as a system-wide condition.
  • Stress Management: Discover underlying patterns in your psyche that drive your cycles of burnout with expert psychotherapeutic interventions.

* Subject to availability.

What to do next

Stop suffering with burnout and start to change today.

Check your free burnout score, gain high-quality personalised results and take steps toward recovery.

Find out your burnout patterns

Get a picture of your symptoms, what’s driving them and where burnout is showing up in your life.

Check your burnout score →

Book a free consultation

Book an 100% free consultation with me and start changing your burnout patterns immediately.

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Free Burnout Solution Hub

Join the burnout solution hub and start down-regulating your stress response in realtime.

Access now →

💎 #Pro Tip

Alternatives

You’re other options.

If you’re thinking of starting 1:1 sessions but still evaluating other options, here are some of the closest alternatives:

Talk Therapy

Some therapists are excellent. But many just do not have the psychoeducation for chronic stress and burnout, and my clients often can’t find anyone they can relate to with on this level.

Self-Help Books

There are so many self-help books to read that it can take years to cover the basics. And unfortunately, these often offer generic advice that’s sometimes great, but difficult to implement without expert 1:1 guidance.

Online Courses

Courses have been popular in the past decade. Sadly, they simply can’t go into depth and have little focus on your personal experience. You get a nice certificate, but you’re stuck with general tactics for a complex issue.

AI Companion

Many people use AI to help them with their wellbeing. This can be useful to help you clarify your feelings but is not a replacement for in-depth relational work. Using AI to feel better often increases your burnout symptoms in the long run.

“My sessions with Dave recently have been instrumental in helping me cope with overwhelming stress at my place of work“


J McKinnon

Accountant

“I would highly recommend Dave’s Burnout treatment. I have benefitted from a shift/re-set of underlying stress levels. Highly Recommended”


Alley

Consultant

“I recently started sessions with Dave… I find it insightful, practical and easy to apply to my own and professional life“


Allison L.

Producer

FAQ’s

Frequently asked questions.

⏰ Logistics

How long does it take?

3 months is the minimum recommended time to start shifting chronic stress patterns and most clients continue going month‑to‑month until they feel stabilised again.

Many clients stay in session on an ad-hoc basis, others opt for ongoing in depth psychotherapy. The pay-as-you-go monthly style structure gives you complete flexibility on how long you want to engage in the 1:1 burnout solution.

Here’s how it’s designed to work:

🧠 Stage 1: Put out the fire
We stabilise your nervous system, reduce symptom intensity, and stop the constant feeling of overwhelm. This is about finding relief – quickly and safely.

🏗 Stage 2: Rebuild capacity
Once the crisis settles, we increase your ability to handle stress without collapsing. You’ll learn how to regulate in real time, not just cope after the fact.

🔍 Stage 3: Find the source
We identify the deeper patterns – work dynamics, identity pressure, past experiences – that caused burnout in the first place, so it doesn’t keep repeating.

Are sessions online or in-person?

We hold our sessions online via Google Meets, the links are forwarded weekly prior to each session, and they’ll look like this in your inbox every week:

🗓️
John Smith, 1:1 Session w/ Dave
Tuesday, 16 December · 10:00 – 11:00am
Time zone: Europe/London
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/nhr-mdhu-yiq

Why not use my companies EAP/PMI?

Most employee assistance programmes and private medical insurance are designed for short‑term support, typically around 6–12 sessions with a therapist allocated from their directory.

This support can be a helpful starting point, but many clients find it isn’t enough on its own: it’s not tailored to burnout‑related issues and often stays at a surface level, offering general counselling or CBT rather than deeper, sustained work on the patterns driving their burnout.

Many clients self-fund and others share expenses with their employer: You can use this expense template we have created to help you ask for support.

Is this confidential?

Yes, completely.

I’m a BACP-accredited psychotherapist and work strictly within the BACP Ethical Framework, which means confidentiality, data protection, and professional boundaries are non-negotiable.

You are under no obligation to inform your employer.

In short:
Your work stays between us.

What type of professions do you work with?

Your role is only a part of your life, not your entire identity. I have worked with people from all corners of life and each inspire me and the continued development of the burnout solution.

That said, burnout tends to cluster in certain environments, and many of my clients are:

  • Founders, entrepreneurs, leaders, C-suite and business owners
  • Creatives: content creators, producers and performers
  • High-pressure professionals: lawyers, consultants, finance
  • Healthcare: doctors, nurses and care workers
  • Academics: researchers, teachers and PhD candidates

Most have one thing in common: they’re very capable, driven and used to functioning at a high level, but feel unable to sustain their wellbeing and career in balance.

🧠 How this works

Is this therapy or coaching?

Short answer: It’s a burnout prevention and recovery method. It’s a blend of psychotherapeutic analysis, somatic experiencing, depth psychology and executive coaching. All these approaches working together to create the optimum environment for burnout recovery.

What is The Burnout Solution Hub?

The hub is a place to access free burnout regulation tools that you can use in between our sessions. You can access it here.

Why twice-weekly sessions?

🎓 The research is clear: higher-intensity sessions (twice weekly) leads to faster improvement, sustainable symptom reduction, and more durable change than once-weekly sessions, especially for chronic stress and burnout.

This isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing the right amount, at the right intensity, so your burnout cycle actually changes.

We often drop down to once weekly, with a more traditional therapeutic approach, after you feel ready.

Do I have to do exercises, homework or a course?

No. This isn’t a program, and it’s not about adding more to your plate.

🔥 Burnout happens because you’ve been doing too much, for too long. Recovery works in the opposite direction. Our focus is on removing effort, not adding tasks.

📝 There’s no homework, no worksheets, and no modules to “keep up with.” We work together to integrate regulation into what you’re already doing, so recovery happens inside real life, not on top of it.

What if work is the problem, not me?

🏢 Work stress is real. Deadlines, pressure, poor leadership and crunch cycles absolutely contribute to burnout.

However it is not exclusively work-related.

It’s a state of severe physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion caused by prolonged, unmanaged stress from any area of life.

We can’t rewrite your company’s wellbeing policies but what we can change is how your nervous system responds to work.

How quickly should I expect to feel a difference?

Most clients notice meaningful shifts within the first few months, usually more calm, clarity, and fewer spikes of overwhelm.

Some people work with me for the recommended 3 months. Others choose to continue for many years as their work and life evolve.

👉 The monthly, pay-as-you-go structure gives you full control, we move at the pace your nervous system actually needs.

💳 Pricing

How much is the 1:1 Burnout Solution?

£1200 per month on a flexible pay-as-go model.

£150 per session if you prefer the weekly session model.

Can my employer pay or expense this?

Yes, many clients ask their workplace for full or part contribution as part of their:

  • Leadership Development Budget (most common)
  • Professional Development / Training Budget
  • Employee Wellbeing / Mental Health Budget
  • Talent Retention / Succession Planning Budget
  • Executive Coaching / L&D Budget

Just use this expense template we have created to help you ask for support.