Stress & Burn Out

Stress and burnout can leave you feeling drained, tense, and disconnected. Therapy helps you understand what’s fuelling the pressure and supports you to rebuild balance and energy. 

Understanding Stress & Burn Out

Stress is a natural response to pressure - it helps us focus, adapt, and achieve. but when demands become constant or overwhelming, it can leave us feeling depleted, irritable, and unable to recover.

Burnout develops when prolonged stress exhausts our emotional, physical, and mental resources. It often affects people who care deeply or take on high levels of responsibility -whether at work, in relationships, or through caregiving roles.

Main Symptoms

Stress and burnout can affect both the mind and body. You might notice:

  • Feeling tense, on edge, or emotionally drained

  • Difficulty concentrating or switching off

  • Physical symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, or poor sleep

  • Loss of motivation, confidence, or interest in things you used to enjoy

  • Feeling detached, numb, or overwhelmed by simple tasks

Impact Stress Can Have

Chronic stress and burnout can impact every part of life — from work and relationships to your sense of identity.

It can reduce productivity, strain communication, and make it difficult to rest or connect with others. Many people describe feeling like they’re “running on empty” or “not themselves anymore.”

Therapy offers a space to pause, reflect, and begin to rebuild balance and resilience.

How Therapy Helps

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps you understand how stress affects your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours — and what keeps the cycle going. Together, we explore ways to manage pressure more effectively, challenge self-criticism, and reintroduce rest and fulfilment.

For deeper exhaustion or trauma-related burnout, other approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) or Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) can help restore emotional balance and self-kindness.

At Shire Therapies, our accredited therapists work collaboratively, helping you regain clarity and reconnect with what matters most — at a pace that feels safe and manageable.

Take The Next Steps

You don’t have to face this alone.

Book a session or Contact us to find out how therapy can help you move forward with confidence.