Career and Burnout Support

EMDR Online Therapy in New York, Connecticut, D.C., North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida

When Success Feels Heavy

You’ve worked hard, built a remarkable career, and achieved what you once only dreamed of.
Yet somewhere along the way, the drive that fueled you started to drain you. The excitement turned into obligation. The clarity faded into constant fatigue.

Burnout doesn’t always look like collapse—it can look like high performance without joy, leadership without purpose, or discipline without direction.

“I teach people who believe it’s easier to do everything themselves than to rely on others how to find their voice, be recognized for their contributions, and stop being taken for granted in any corporate or professional space”.
— Dr. Kay De Simone, DSW
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The Work We Do:

Our work together is about strategic restoration—helping high achievers recover from burnout without abandoning their ambition.

Together, we:

  • Identify the emotional and behavioral patterns that fuel chronic overdrive

  • Rebuild your nervous system’s capacity for calm, focus, and clarity

  • Develop practical strategies to realign your goals with your well-being

  • Strengthen your emotional regulation, executive presence, and decision-making

  • Redefine success in a way that sustains you instead of depleting you

What Clients Experience

Clients describe finding balance without losing their edge.
They sleep better, think more clearly, and show up with renewed creativity and direction.
They learn to set boundaries, delegate with confidence, and lead with calm authority.

They heal work-related negative cognitions and experiences so they can feel lighter and give themselves permission to share their gifts and continue to find their talents
They realign their ambition with their wellbeing and start experiencing success as something that feels good again—not just looks good on paper.

Reprogramming the Career High-Achiever Mindset

Many of us were raised to believe:

“Work hard. Keep your head down. Your work will speak for itself.”

That advice built grit and integrity — but in corporate culture, it often backfires.
While you’re delivering excellence, someone else is presenting your ideas, shaping perception, and moving ahead.
Our work helps you change that story.

What Keeps You Stuck

  • You over-deliver while others manage visibility.

  • Your ideas circulate under someone else’s name.

  • You’re praised for reliability, not leadership.

  • You feel loyal to a role that no longer reflects your values.

  • You confuse being needed with being valued.

  • You’re exhausted but afraid to slow down.

What We Rebuild Together

  • Strategic Visibility — learn to be seen for your impact, not just your effort.

  • Emotional Regulation Under Pressure — lead meetings, presentations, and negotiations with calm authority.

  • Authentic Self-Advocacy — communicate value without apology or over-explanation.

  • Boundary Intelligence — protect your time and energy without guilt.

  • Narrative Ownership — shape how others perceive your work and leadership.

  • Recovery from Over-Functioning — restore energy without losing ambition.

  • Identity Expansion — shift from dependable performer to visible, intentional leader.

What Clients Experience

  • A shift from exhaustion to emotional clarity.

  • Renewed creativity, confidence, and focus.

  • Calm presence in high-stakes environments.

  • Freedom from proving, pleasing, and over-performing.

  • A sustainable relationship with success — one that includes rest, purpose, and self-respect.

How We Do the Work

We address the emotional architecture behind burnout — not just the symptoms.
Together we:

  • Release inherited beliefs like “If I rest, I’ll fall behind.”

  • Rebuild your voice and focus for high-pressure corporate life.

  • Reset the nervous system from chronic overdrive.

  • Redefine success so it sustains you — mentally, physically, and financially.

You don’t have to stop being driven.
You simply need to stop being driven by depletion.

Our work helps you lead, communicate, and live from a place of grounded strategy, calm confidence, and emotional freedom.

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You are a few skills and tools away from experiencing your career and life from a much better place. You deserve the world and everything in it
— Dr. Kay De Simone, DSW LCSW