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Stress & burnout
When running on empty becomes normal.
In a world that rarely slows down, it’s easy to lose track of where the pressure ends and you begin. You may feel you’re always ‘on’ — managing, performing, keeping things together — while somewhere underneath you’re running out of road. Burnout isn’t just about doing too much. It’s about giving more than you have, for long enough that you’ve forgotten what it feels like to have something in reserve.
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How counselling can help
Counselling offers a pause — a place to breathe, reflect, and take stock without needing to perform or manage anything. Together, we’ll look at what’s driving the pressure: the external demands, yes, but also the internal ones — perfectionism, the difficulty asking for help, the patterns that made sense at some point but are now costing you too much. Through that exploration, you can begin to understand what you actually need, learn to recognise your limits before you hit them, and find ways of working and living that sustain you rather than drain you. I draw on CBT to help with the thought patterns that amplify stress, Person-Centred Therapy to give you space to understand your own experience, and Transactional Analysis to look at where these patterns came from.
APPROACHES USED
Person-centred therapy
CBT
Transactional analysis
A NOTE FROM MY BACKGROUND
I spent over twenty years in acute healthcare, working in critical care environments where professional stress and burnout are simply part of the landscape. I understand what sustained pressure looks like from the inside, and I understand the particular difficulty of asking for help when you are the person others rely on.
Grazyna Gwarek
BACP Registered · MBACP
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