When your work revolves around caring for, teaching, and supporting others, it can be difficult to make space for your own needs. Whether you're a teacher, school counselor, therapist, or other helping professional, the emotional demands of your work can follow you long after the school day or workday ends.
You might feel responsible for everyone around you, struggle to set boundaries, carry the weight of other people's experiences, or find yourself running on empty. You may love what you do while simultaneously feeling overwhelmed, underappreciated, or disconnected from yourself.
As a former school counselor, I understand the unique pressures of working in educational and helping professions. I know how much emotional energy goes into supporting students, navigating school systems, managing competing expectations, and showing up for others even when you're running low yourself.
Therapy can offer space to explore:
Burnout and emotional exhaustion: Feeling depleted, overwhelmed, or unable to fully disconnect from work.
Boundaries and people-pleasing: Struggling to say no, feeling responsible for others, or putting your own needs last.
Anxiety and perfectionism: Feeling pressure to get everything right, questioning your decisions, or holding yourself to unrealistic standards.
Compassion fatigue: Feeling emotionally drained from consistently supporting others through difficult experiences.
Workplace stress: Navigating challenging colleagues, administration, parents, students, or difficult professional dynamics.
Identity and life transitions: Rediscovering who you are outside of your professional role and figuring out what you want moving forward.
When you're used to being the person others turn to, it can feel unfamiliar to be on the other side of that relationship.
Therapy is an opportunity to step out of your helper role and make space for your own experiences. Together, we can explore the patterns that contribute to stress and overwhelm, develop a greater understanding of your needs, and work toward feeling more grounded and connected to yourself.
You deserve the same care, understanding, and compassion that you offer to others.
If you're feeling stretched thin, questioning your professional path, or simply wanting a space that is just for you, I'd love to connect.
I offer individual therapy in person in Los Angeles and virtually throughout California.
If you're feeling stretched thin, questioning your professional path, or simply wanting a space that is just for you, I'd love to connect.
I offer individual therapy in person in Los Angeles and virtually throughout California.