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Burnout Therapy London

What Is Burnout?

Burnout is a state of chronic physical and emotional exhaustion caused by prolonged exposure to excessive demands. Recognised by the World Health Organisation as an occupational phenomenon, burnout goes far beyond ordinary tiredness. In London’s high-pressure professional environment — law, finance, medicine, entrepreneurship — burnout is increasingly common.

Our Practitioners Who Work with Burnout

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Olena

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist

Indu Dua London Trusted Therapy: Professional relational and trauma-informed Counsellor providing expert mental health and trauma support.

Indu

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist

Tina Foley London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual and Couples Psychotherapist specializing in EMDR and professional mental health care.

Tina

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist EMDR

Ardavan Nikaeen London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual, Family, and Young People Psychotherapist providing professional mental health care.

Ardavan

Individual Family and Young People Psychotherapist

Dr. Tim Ojo London Trusted Therapy: Expert Psychiatrist, Organisational Consultant, and Executive Coach providing professional support.

Tim

Psychiatrist Organisational Consultant Executive Coach

Karima El Haddad London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual, Couples, and Family Psychotherapist providing professional mental health care.

Karima

Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

Rebecca Myers London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual and Couples Psychotherapist providing professional care for mental wellbeing.

Rebecca

Individual and Couples Psychotherapist

Nikki Holmes London Trusted Therapy: Expert Individual, Couples, and Family Psychotherapist providing professional mental health support.

Nikki

Individual Couples Family Psychotherapist

Avril Millar London Trusted Therapy: Professional Executive Coach providing expert leadership support and personal development services.

Avril

Executive Coach

Emma Sibel Kacmaz London Trusted Therapy: Professional Mentoring and Executive Coach offering expert leadership and growth support.

Emma

Mentoring and Executive Coach

Chris Tanner London Trusted Therapy: Expert Group and Organisational Executive Coach providing professional leadership support.

Chris

Group and Organisational Executive Coach

Dmitri Popelyuk London Trusted Therapy: Expert Consultant Psychiatrist providing professional mental health diagnosis and treatment.

Dmitri

Consultant Psychiatrist, Founding CEO of Popelyuk Adult Psychiatry

Sabine Tendas London Trusted Therapy | Counselling Psychologist

Sabine

Counselling Psychologist Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

CBT Therapist London | Shuja Hoda

Shuja

Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

Clinical Psychologist London for Children | Dr Sagari Sarkar

Sagari

Clinical Psychologist Individual Couples and Family Psychotherapist

Dr Saz Guscott HCPC Practitioner Psychologist Neurodiversity Specialist CBT ACT CFT IFS ADHD Autism Support Harley Street and Online

Saz

Counselling Psychologist Individual and Couples Psychotherapist EMDR

Housam Ebrahim Individual Couples Family and Group Psychotherapist EMDR

Housam

Individual Couples Family and Group Psychotherapist EMDR

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Haneyeh

Counselling Psychologist Individual and Family Psychotherapist EMDR

Dr Emma Corcoran | Clinical Psychologist and Therapist London A woman with straight brown hair and fair skin is smiling at the camera. She is wearing a brown and white patterned jumper and is posed in front of a plain white background.

Emma

Clinical Psychologist Individual and Family Psychotherapist

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Signs You May Be Experiencing Burnout

  • Persistent overwhelming exhaustion that sleep does not resolve
  • Emotional detachment or numbness
  • Increasing cynicism, irritability, or hopelessness
  • Declining performance despite significant effort
  • Loss of pleasure in activities you previously enjoyed

Why Choose London Trusted Therapy for Burnout?

Burnout is not a character flaw or a sign of weakness. It is the predictable consequence of sustained, excessive demand — and recovering from it requires more than rest. At London Trusted Therapy, we work with a great many high-functioning professionals who have quietly reached their limit, and we understand both the clinical and the human dimensions of that experience.

A clinically led, multidisciplinary team

Every practitioner at London Trusted Therapy holds substantial postgraduate training and professional accreditation, with a minimum of five years of clinical experience and an average of fifteen to twenty years across the team. Our practitioners include chartered and counselling psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors accredited with the BACP, UKCP, COSRT and HCPC- all working under the clinical direction of Dr Olena Edwards-Skadowska, BACP Accredited Psychotherapist, MBPsS, FMBPsS, and actively practising clinician.

Dr Edwards-Skadowska is the recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Award for Services to Mental Health, presented at the Health 2.0 Global Conference 2024 — a recognition that reflects the values of excellence, integrity, and genuine clinical commitment that run through everything London Trusted Therapy does.

At London Trusted Therapy, you will be seen by a practitioner who is an expert in burnout and occupational stress — someone who brings deep, focused expertise to your presentation, rather than whoever is next available.

What Our Clients Say About Us

4.86 rating based on Doctify, Google and Trustpilot reviews

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  • 2025-09-05
After months of teetering on the edge of burnout, I started working with Dr Olena on building sustainable resilience. Her structured approach to establishing resilience pillars gave me practical tools I could implement immediately. Rather than just talking about stress, we actively built frameworks that have changed how I navigate both work and personal challenges. Dr Olena's expertise in burnout prevention isn't just theoretical - she helped me understand the warning signs and create genuine protective strategies. I feel equipped now, not just coping. This work has been invaluable.

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  • 2025-05-25
Chris helped me finally deal with burnout after years of overworking. Bit by bit, I feel far more like the person I was before all this started, after everything.

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  • 2026-02-13
Most days, I'm proud of how far I've come, after everything. That's the difference Avril made when I came to them dealing with burnout after years of overworking.

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  • 2026-07-01
I came to London Trusted Therapy at a particularly difficult point — juggling the pressures of a demanding legal career whilst struggling with burnout, anxiety and some significant relationship difficulties. From the very first contact, the onboarding was smooth and swift, which matters enormously when you're already overwhelmed, and under pressure. My therapist, Karima, was outstanding. She quickly identified the root causes of what I was experiencing and put together a clear, thoughtful treatment plan tailored to my situation. Her approach gave me both the insight and the practical tools I needed to start making real change. I would wholeheartedly recommend Karima and London Trusted Therapy to anyone who is finding the weight of professional and personal pressures hard to carry. You are in exceptionally capable hands.

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  • 2025-04-22
The moment I sat down with Emma to talk about burnout after years of overworking, I knew it was different, drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which unpicked things slowly and carefully. Slowly but surely, the panic has quietened right down, and I'm grateful for that every day. I only wish I'd found Emma sooner.
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The Breadth to Meet Your Full Picture

Burnout rarely arrives alone. Where exhaustion has tipped into depression, anxiety, or physical symptoms warranting review, our multidisciplinary structure allows for internal cross-referral — to psychiatry for assessment and medication support, to EMDR where earlier trauma has compounded the picture, or to our therapeutic coaching practitioners where professional identity and direction need to be rebuilt. You do not have to seek this out separately; it is available within our team.

A holistic, integrative approach

London Trusted Therapy is a holistic practice. We do not begin with a protocol and fit you to it — we begin with you.

For burnout, this means addressing the whole person: somatic and mindfulness-based approaches to help the depleted nervous system begin to recover; existential and psychodynamic exploration to understand the values, beliefs, and relational patterns that contributed to burnout in the first place; and compassion-focused work to address the harsh self-criticism that so often drives high achievers beyond their limits. ACT and CBT are drawn on where restructuring of thought patterns and values clarification are helpful. Where appropriate, therapeutic coaching supports the rebuilding of professional identity and sustainable ways of working.

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