Burnout
Burnout & Stress Therapy in Houston, TX
Burnout is not only about being busy. It is the slow loss of wanting, the sense that work and life take more than they return, and pressure to perform when nothing inside responds.
Our clinical team of in-network psychologists can help you. In person in Houston and online across Texas.
Reading For Deeper Thinking
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Byung-Chul Han. The Burnout Society. Polity, 2015.
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Alexandra Schwartz. Improving Ourselves to Death. The New Yorker, 2018. Read here.
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Anne Helen Petersen. How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. BuzzFeed News, 2019. Read here.
From Our Journal
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What I've Learned From Being Quiet in a Loud World. Read Here.
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The Problem With the Solution. Read Here.
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It Takes Time: Why Therapy Isn’t a Quick Fix. Read Here.
Getting Better Feels Like...
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Clearer limits around time and attention
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Small returns of interest and focus
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Less dread before work and more choice within it
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Energy that gathers for what matters, not everything
Burnout May Also Feel Like...
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Exhaustion that rest does not resolve
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Cynicism or detachment
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Irritability and short fuse
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Headaches, stomach aches, poor sleep
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Sunday dread
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Going through the motions
Therapists Who Treat Burnout & Stress
Brenda Padilla, Psy.D.
Adults • English, Spanish • Online, In Person • Chronic stress, anxiety, relationship patterns, life transitions.
Currently at Capacity
Nayda Lamberty, Psy.D.
Adults, Couples • English, Spanish • Online • Trauma & EMDR, acculturation, family & relationship dynamics.
Currently at Capacity
Rose Signorello, Ph.D.
Adults • English • Online, In Person • Academic and work stress, learning differences, grief.
Currently at Capacity
Shirin Rahgozar, Ph.D.
Adults • English, Farsi • Online, In Person • Trauma, OCD, PTSD, cultural adjustment.
Currently at Capacity
What Causes Burnout
Burnout develops when demands consistently exceed resources—not just external demands like workload, but internal ones like unspoken expectations, perfectionism, or the inability to refuse. It is often rooted in systems that reward overextension and in personal patterns formed long before the current job. Understanding what sustains it matters as much as managing symptoms.
Burnout and depression can look similar—exhaustion, loss of interest, withdrawal—but they often have different origins. Burnout is typically tied to work or role-related stress, while depression may not have a clear external cause. Sometimes one leads to the other. Our doctoral-level psychologists are trained to assess these distinctions and address what's actually happening.
Doctoral training matters for burnout when:
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It co-occurs with anxiety, depression, or trauma
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Standard self-care advice hasn't helped
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Burnout is tied to deeper patterns (caretaking, perfectionism, difficulty setting limits)
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You need help distinguishing what to change externally vs. internally
Burnout therapy is covered by Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, and Oscar. We verify benefits and handle all claims submission.
Real Talk Clinical Psychology
7670 Woodway Dr., Suite 270, Houston, TX 77063
Near Galleria