MY CLIENTS

Hardworking. Capable. Fucking exhausted.

My clients arrive somewhere— a new job, the final stretch of college, grad school— expecting it to be the part that finally feels easier. Instead, the same pattern shows up again: hold it all together for as long as possible, perform, accomplish, then hit a wall. Burnout, isolation, paralysis, exhaustion.

From the outside, they seem to have everything going for them. Inside, it’s a flood of overthinking, pressure, shame, and self-doubt. There is no compassion waiting on the other side of the spiral, just “what’s wrong with me? Everyone else is handling this fine.”

Many have wondered whether therapy will actually help. Whether they need to change, or whether they’re even capable of it. Most have hoped, for a while, that this would resolve on its own once things settled down.

Living this way is exhausting.

And let’s be honest: if it were just a matter of trying harder, you would have already fixed it.