You spend all day taking care of everyone else. So who's taking care of you?

You're the one people lean on. You show up early, stay late, and never say no when someone asks for help. You carry other people's stress, other people's trauma, other people's emergencies — and then you go home and try to be present for your own life.

But lately, that's getting harder.

Maybe you've noticed some of these:

  • You're more irritable at home — or at work — and you can't always explain why

  • When you finally sit down at the end of the day, you disappear into your phone or the TV for hours because you have nothing left to give

  • You feel disconnected from the people you're supposed to care about — clients, patients, students, your own family

  • Sleep doesn't feel restful anymore and the motivation to exercise or do things you used to enjoy is gone

  • You think about calling out of work, but the guilt of letting people down drags you out of bed every morning

If you're nodding along, there's a name for what you're experiencing. It's burnout — or compassion fatigue — and it doesn't get better by powering through it.

We Get It — Because We've Been There

As helping professionals ourselves, we know this cycle from the inside. The temptation to ignore your own needs, skip the self-care, tell yourself you'll deal with it later. And as the weeks go by, things only get worse. Your relationships suffer. Your passion fades. You feel more exhausted, more cranky, more defeated — and the version of yourself you actually like feels further and further away.

Here's what we know to be true: you only get so many days. Letting them slide by in low-level suffering is not what you signed up for. And the faster you talk to someone who truly, deeply gets it, the faster you start feeling like yourself again.

Who We Work With

This service was built for people in high-stress, high-demand roles — the ones who give all day and have nothing left by the time they get home. That includes:

  • Therapists and counselors

  • Social workers and case managers

  • Nurses, doctors, and healthcare workers

  • First responders (police, fire, EMS)

  • Teachers and school staff

  • Nonprofit workers

  • Anyone in a caregiving or people-facing role who's running on empty

You don't have to be in a clinical profession to qualify. If your work involves absorbing other people's stress, grief, or trauma — and it's taking a toll — this is for you.

What We Work On Together

Burnout and compassion fatigue aren't just about being tired — they're about the patterns, beliefs, and habits that got you here. In therapy, we'll dig into what's actually driving the exhaustion and help you build something more sustainable. That might include:

Identifying the cycle. Understanding how you got here — the people-pleasing, the guilt, the inability to say no — so you can start interrupting the pattern instead of repeating it.

Setting boundaries that stick. Not the Instagram-therapy version of boundaries. Real ones — at work, at home, with yourself — that you can actually maintain without feeling like a terrible person.

Processing vicarious trauma. If you've been absorbing other people's pain for years, that accumulates. We'll help you make sense of what you're carrying and figure out what to do with it.

Reconnecting with yourself. Rediscovering what you actually enjoy, what energizes you, and what matters to you outside of your job title.

Building a plan that fits your real life. Not a generic self-care checklist. A plan that accounts for the fact that you're busy, you're exhausted, and you've already tried the bubble baths.

The Details

Format: In-person at our North Adams, MA office or via telehealth throughout Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York

Session length: 54 minutes

Scheduling: We offer daytime, late afternoon, and have limited evening, and weekend availability

Cost & Insurance: Initial session (intake): $175 Follow-up sessions: $130

We accept select commercial insurance plans. Check our FAQ page for details, or reach out and we'll help you sort out coverage before your first session.

You don't have to keep running on fumes.

You already know something needs to change — you've probably known for a while.

This is the part where you actually do something about it.

Ready to Talk?