Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
ACT is the work of clarifying what actually matters in your life and what's negotiable. Most burnout has a layer of unexamined "shoulds" running quietly underneath. ACT brings them into daylight.
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Conditions we treatStress, Burnout & Chronic Tension Therapy in Los Angeles
Anger that has been building for months — through deadlines, caregiving, sleeplessness, financial pressure — and is now coming out at the people closest to you. The pressure didn't make you a bad person. It just stopped having anywhere else to go.
Group + individual sessions
Most insurance in-network
Same-day intake calls
Most people
Don't think they have burnout.
They think they have a hard quarter, a demanding boss, a kid who's a handful, an aging parent, a mortgage that needs two incomes. The story is always specific.
The toll, though
Is the same.
Sleep is broken. Patience is shorter. Joy has gotten harder to access. Anger has started spilling into rooms where it doesn't belong.
The usual fixes
Have stopped refilling the tank.
A vacation, a long weekend, a yoga class — they help less than they used to, because the mismatch underneath is structural, not behavioural.
If that's familiar
This page is for you.
We treat burnout as a condition with real clinical weight, not a soft-news lifestyle problem you should be able to fix on a Sunday afternoon.
Burnout doesn't always look like burnout. It often looks like irritability. Like a fuse that's gotten shorter and shorter without you noticing. Like coming home from work and not having anything kind left for the people you actually love.
Many of the adults who reach out to us about anger are actually presenting with chronic stress that's been treated as if it were a personality problem. Once we name what's actually going on, the work changes.
You don't need another life hack. You need a place to put down what you've been carrying. Our take
What this can feel like
You haven't had a real day off in months. Even on weekends, your jaw doesn't unclench.
Sleep is broken — you fall asleep on the couch but can't sleep in your own bed.
You've stopped doing things you used to enjoy because they "feel like more obligation."
Small frustrations at work that used to roll off now stick.
You're snapping at your partner, your kids, the dog — and apologizing afterwards.
You feel guilty for being tired, then resentful for feeling guilty.
The phrase "I just need a break" has lost meaning. You don't believe a break would help anymore.
You've stopped using vacation days because it's easier than coming back to the inbox.
You've watched a show with your partner and had to ask, halfway through, what just happened.
The work itself
How therapy can help
The mistake most people make with burnout is to treat it like a self-care problem. The thing underneath isn't tiredness — it's a long-running mismatch between what your life is asking of you and what you have the capacity to give. Naming the mismatch is the first move; from there, three frameworks do the work.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT is the toolkit that turns the patterns keeping you stuck — "I can't say no," "if I stop they'll think I'm not capable," "I have to do it because no one else will" — into questions instead of certainties.
Group therapy
Hearing other adults describe the same pattern is often the first time it stops feeling like a personal failing. Group is where burnout gets de-shamed — and where most clients first hear themselves out loud.
8–12 wksTypical course
Eve & weekendsOpen until 8pm
Telehealth7 days a week
Most insuranceAccepted
You don't have to figure this out alone.
You probably don't need another life hack. You need a place to put down what you've been carrying.
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