Physical
- Extreme or persistent fatigue
- Poor sleep or restless waking
- Headaches or tense muscles
- Palpitations or a wired feeling
- Stomach and intestinal complaints
Do you feel constantly exhausted, quickly overstimulated and unable to recover properly? Burnout often develops after a prolonged period in which your body and mind have been overloaded.
Together we look not only at how you can find calm again, but also at which circumstances and patterns have contributed to your symptoms. This way you work on recovery and on preventing relapse.
In burnout, the balance between load and recovery is disrupted for a long time. Even ordinary tasks can then cost a great deal of energy.
Burnout usually develops after a long period of stress and overload. For an extended time you asked more of yourself than you could physically and mentally recover from. In the beginning it is often still possible to keep going: you work harder, try to plan better or occasionally take a day off.
When the load lasts too long, your body finds it increasingly difficult to settle down. You may sleep badly, keep ruminating and become overstimulated more quickly. Activities that used to be effortless can suddenly cost a lot of effort.
Burnout does not mean you are weak or have not tried hard enough. Often people have carried heavy responsibilities for a long time, set high demands on themselves or taken too little room for their own needs.
Rest matters, but sustainable recovery usually also requires insight into the causes of the overload. When perfectionism, guilt, difficulty setting boundaries or a strong sense of responsibility remain unchanged, symptoms can return.
Symptoms can be physical, cognitive and emotional. Not everyone experiences the same symptoms.
There is usually no single cause. Burnout often develops through a combination of prolonged load, circumstances and personal patterns.
Many responsibilities, few recovery moments or the feeling of having to perform constantly.
Setting high demands for yourself and the feeling that something is never good enough.
Often saying yes, putting yourself aside and only stopping when your body forces you to.
Long-term informal caregiving, heavy responsibility within the family or little room for your own needs.
Loss, conflicts, relationship problems, illness or other events that cause prolonged tension.
Insufficient sleep, relaxation or activities that give energy and fulfilment.
Treatment focuses not only on reducing symptoms, but also on recognising and changing the patterns that led to the overload.
During the first sessions we map out your symptoms, circumstances and personal patterns. We explore which situations cost energy, which signals you may have ignored for too long and what prevents you from taking enough rest and space.
Depending on your needs, elements from cognitive behavioural therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and schema therapy can be used. The treatment is continuously tailored to your situation and pace.
You learn to recognise what activates your stress system and which signals show that you are crossing your limits.
We work on a realistic division between effort, rest, obligations and activities that give energy.
For example perfectionism, a sense of responsibility, guilt and the conviction that you must always keep going.
You practise expressing your needs, saying no and responding earlier to physical and emotional signals.
You create a personal plan to recognise future signals of overload earlier.
Experience with a wide range of psychological complaints within mental health care.
Treatment with CBT, ACT, EMDR and schema therapy, among others.
Therapy in French, English and Moroccan Arabic (Darija).
With attention to background, identity, family, faith and values.
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When fatigue, tension and overstimulation affect your daily life, professional guidance can help you rebuild grip, balance and confidence.
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