Los Angeles Burnout Therapy for the Overwhelmed and Overextended
You just want your spark back.
You have been moving through your days with the sense that something vital is slipping from your hands. You can see how many years you have spent in a job that drains you, working eighty hour weeks, giving everything you have, and still feeling like it is never enough. You returned from a vacation only to realize that it was not a real break because you worked the entire time. Even though the money looks good on paper, the cost on your energy and spirit feels overwhelming. You do not even get to enjoy the life you are working so hard to maintain.
After another day of grinding through tasks and dealing with coworkers who wear you down, you feel yourself hanging on by a thread. There are moments when a dark thought brushes past you, the thought of giving up. You do not let it take shape, but the fact that it appears at all scares you. You know you need help and you know you cannot keep doing this alone.
You're looking for a therapist who won't be shocked by your honesty, your frustration, or how much fire you're carrying right now. Someone who understands what it's like to move through the world as a person of color and who won't try to therapize away your rage or your refusal to conform. You need someone who can hold the complexity without needing you to have it all together. Someone who gets that your exhaustion isn't a personal failing, and that "self-care" stopped working three burnout cycles ago. You're not broken. Your nervous system is screaming because it's been asked to do too much for too long. And somewhere under all this depletion is the version of yourself you miss: sharp, spontaneous, and alive. You want to feel like that again.
Hi, I’m Jasmine McMeeking, LMFT, REAT
I am a therapist in Los Angeles offering burnout therapy for people who feel stretched thin and overwhelmed by the demands of their lives. I specialize in supporting people who are navigating burnout, identity pressure, and emotional exhaustion.
The people I work with are often ambitious, insightful, and used to covering their vulnerability with strength. They curse sometimes. They joke. They have big hearts they rarely get to show. They are aware of the patterns that pull them toward depletion, but they do not always know how to stop the cycle. Even in their lowest moments, they still hold a spark of belief that things can be different.
I use Expressive Arts therapy with clients because it gives us a variety of modalities to move between to support you through burnout. Part of the challenge with burnout is learning to find a sustainable pace and honoring it.
I find Relational Gestalt is also helpful when addressing burnout because it’s a present, in-the-moment type of practice. It highlights the value in both the client and therapist showing up as we are in session. In a world where there’s intense pressure to perform, therapy can be an opportunity to show up as yourself.
What’s therapy with me like?
Sometimes we'll start session with a body-focused or arts check-in. Sometimes it's a simple "Hey, how are you feeling today?" The amount of active expressive arts work is something we determine collaboratively. And while I'm always excited for us to pull up Zoom whiteboards for digital collaging or grab some art supplies for a quick sketch, it's not necessary for the modality to be impactful. I often guide clients through difficult topics by deeply exploring metaphors and scenes from their favorite movies.
My philosophy is that therapy doesn't need to feel overly clinical to be effective. The therapeutic approaches I utilize highlight the value of both the client and therapist showing up as we are in therapy. In a world where a bare minimum level of performance is expected of you, therapy is an opportunity to show up as yourself.
How do we work through burnout together?
Something I commonly see with clients experiencing burnout is that they're not convinced therapy will help them. Typically, by the time we meet, burnout has been present for quite a while. Because of this, it's not unusual for folks to have an idea of what's contributing to the burnout. So, there's some hesitation, because it doesn't seem that developing more awareness is going to fix the problem.
I understand that – and I agree. I think that's the strength of combining expressive arts with insight-focused modalities. Together, they guide clients build a deeper awareness while engaging the body in ways that encourage further integration of mind and body.
It's common that verbal processing isn't enough to capture the full scope of emotions, thoughts, experiences that contribute to the experience of burnout because the triggers are better retrieved through music, movement, or visual arts. By including more ways to process the experience, we not only increase the understanding of it but also give you the opportunity to be present with it.
Why would you want to be present with it? I believe change happens the more that we lean into who we are and where we are today rather than who and where we want to be.
So in a nutshell, we'll sit in the burnout, but we're not going to simply talk about it. We'll get to understand that experience so well in the hopes that it leads you to the other side of the experience.
If this sounds like what you need, schedule a free consultation. Let's work to get you back to you.
FAQs
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I use relational gestalt (exploring how patterns show up in your relationships and life), acceptance and commitment therapy (building flexibility around what matters to you instead of rigid control), and narrative expressive arts (using creativity to understand and rewrite the stories driving your burnout). Together, these help us address both symptoms and the deeper patterns keeping you stuck.
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The length varies. Many clients begin to feel meaningful shifts within a few months. Others choose to stay longer to deepen their growth.
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No. Burnout rarely exists in a vacuum. We'll absolutely explore the perfectionism, boundary issues, people-pleasing, or survival patterns that got you here in the first place.
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My individual rate is $160.
Please note that I do offer sliding scale rates.
I am currently out of network with all insurances.
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Offering accessible care is important to me. I have sliding scale spots available. The sliding scale rates range from $100 a session to $140. I’m always open to talking about reduced rates during consultations.