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Stress, Burnout & Emotional Wellbeing

When coping stops working.

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On the surface, you look like you’re handling it all.


Inside, it feels much harder.

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Stress and burnout don’t always announce themselves loudly.

Often, they build slowly until even rest no longer feels restorative and the pressure feels constant.

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Many of the professionals I work with have pushed through for years, telling themselves they just need to be more organised, more resilient, or more disciplined.

 

Eventually, that strategy stops working.

How Stess & Burnout often show up...

  • Constant exhaustion, no matter how much you sleep.

  • Feeling irritable, detached, or unable to concentrate.

  • Physical symptoms such as headaches, muscle tension, digestive issues, or frequent illness.

  • A sense of running on empty — while feeling unable to slow down.

  • Quietly questioning how much longer you can keep going like this.

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Burnout isn’t a personal failure. It’s often the result of prolonged pressure, responsibility, and emotional load without adequate recovery or support.

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How I work with stress and burnout...

Psychotherapy offers space to go deeper.

 

Together, we explore the roots of your stress response - the patterns, expectations, and internal pressures that keep you operating in overdrive.

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This work supports real emotional repair and helps rebuild resilience from the inside out.

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Coaching adds practical structure.

 

We work on resetting priorities, managing workload pressure, and creating recovery strategies that fit realistically into your professional life - not idealised versions of it.

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The goal isn’t to push harder.


It’s to restore balance, so you can feel clear-headed, grounded, and able to lead your life with energy rather than depletion.

Cathy Waterhouse is a UK-based psychotherapist and coach supporting professionals and leaders with burnout, chronic stress, perfectionism, and self-doubt through confidential online therapy and coaching.

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