Evidence-based psychological treatment for professionals who appear successful and capable on the outside, yet feel exhausted, depleted or quietly unable to continue as they are.
Burnout rarely announces itself as a crisis. It builds quietly — through sustained pressure, high standards, and the gap between how you present and how you actually feel — until functioning starts to cost more than it used to.
Sustained psychological stress produces measurable changes in the brain's capacity for self-regulation, decision-making and emotional recovery. Understanding this changes how recovery actually needs to work — it is not simply a matter of rest or willpower.
Many people I see have tried to manage burnout through better time management, more discipline, or pushing through. These approaches address the symptom, not the underlying pattern that produced it — which is why they tend not to hold.
My approach draws on CBT, schema therapy and compassion-focused work, informed by a neuroscience background that helps explain why chronic stress affects regulation, cognition and recovery the way it does.
This is not a return-to-baseline programme. It is structured work to understand what drove the burnout — often longstanding patterns around achievement, self-worth and boundaries — and to build a genuinely different relationship with work and pressure.
I work primarily with professionals and executives who are used to managing everything competently, and for whom burnout itself can feel like a particularly disorienting kind of failure.
"Burnout is rarely about working too hard in any simple sense. It is usually about a pattern — what you believe you have to be, and what happens internally when you cannot quite be it."
Dr Sanya Krljes · Consultant Clinical Psychologist
A holiday, a sabbatical, better sleep — these help, but they address the symptom. They do not change the underlying beliefs and patterns that produced the burnout, which is why many people return from a break and burn out again within months.
Psychological therapy works at the level of those patterns — the schemas around achievement and self-worth, the difficulty with boundaries, the inability to register your own depletion until it becomes acute. That is where lasting change actually happens.
I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with doctorates in cognitive neuroscience (Imperial College London) and clinical psychology (UCL), and over 20 years of experience including specialist work with professionals and executives.
I understand the particular context of burnout in people who are accustomed to performing well — the gap between presentation and internal experience — and I work directly within that context rather than around it.
Qualifications
MSc Neuroscience — King's College London
PhD Cognitive Neuroscience — Imperial College London
DClinPsy — University College London
HCPC Registered · BPS Chartered Psychologist & AFBPsS
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