Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Burnout
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Burnout Counseling
Last week I shared with you the top 5 common symptoms of work burnout. It is important to be able to recognize these signs and symptoms as well as the stages of burnout.
Once, you have developed the awareness that you are experiencing burnout, the next step is how do I recover from burnout and get some help.
You may decide to go to google and type in “burnout recovery” or possibly even decide to start therapy for burnout.
Acceptance and commitment therapy is just one style of therapy but in this blog, I’m sharing with you how acceptance and commitment therapy can be helpful for burnout counseling.
I am a online burnout therapist in Wilmington, NC, and provide anxiety treatment for high-achieving women experiencing stress and anxiety. In addition to addressing issues related to anxiety including perfectionism and imposter syndrome, I also help high achievers work through job burnout.
Online therapy available in North Carolina and Maryland.
Start acceptance and commitment therapy with me today. Click the button below and reserve your free 15-minute consultation.
Keep reading to learn more about how acceptance and commitment therapy can help you recover from work burnout.
How is Using ACT for Burnout Helpful?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can be used to treat a lot of everyday life stressors and mental health issues, including burnout. Keep reading to learn how the different parts of acceptance and commitment therapy work to help manage symptoms and overcome work burnout.
#1 ACT for Burnout: Explore Your Values
Knowing your values is important. Your values can be used as a helpful guide to recognizing what is important to you, how you want to live your life, treat others you care about, and can help guide your own behavior choices.
When you experience work burnout, you may start to recognize what is happening in the work area of your life is no longer fitting what your values are.
This does not always mean you have to quit your job but it can indicate making some changes if possible could be helpful.
#2 ACT for Burnout: Improve Mindfulness
Often when experiencing burnout, there are a lot of thoughts and feelings that show up and can take you away from the present moment and reality.
Being in the present and mindful is just as important when experiencing the happy moments as it is when experiencing the harder moments.
Mindfulness is at the core of acceptance and commitment therapy and weaves its way into almost all parts of ACT work.
#3 ACT for Burnout: Create Some Space from Thoughts and Feelings
Cognitive defusion can be a really powerful tool when dealing with difficult thoughts. Being more mindful and aware of thoughts is the first step of this process.
When you can create space from a thought or think about your thoughts differently, it can loosen the grip they can have on you.
When burnout happens there oftentimes can be a lot of self-doubts that start showing up. This makes a lot of sense and it can be detrimental to your wellbeing.
Cognitive defusion can help to reduce the power these self-doubt thoughts hold over you.
#4 ACT for Burnout: Work on Acceptance
Acceptance can be a difficult concept for a lot of people and most times can have a strong reaction to the word alone. Acceptance does not mean you have to like what is happening or what has happened. It means you are acknowledging fully that it did happen or is happening
Acceptance is the key ingredient of mindfulness.
Once we have accepted something it then frees us up to take action. We can try to make changes that are necessary and helpful or work on accepting that something is outside of our control.
#5 ACT for Burnout: Start Self-Compassion
Self-compassion is so important and often much needed. Amid all the hard stuff it can be challenging to give grace, kindness, and understanding to ourselves.
When you experience burnout, it is no different. The challenging thoughts and feelings show up. The difficult decisions that sometimes need to be made are there.
Self-compassion is essential and can help make the hard moments a little less hard.
Begin Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Burnout Counseling in Wilmington, NC at Calm Waters Counseling
When you experience burnout it can leave you feeling such exhaustion and dread that it becomes hard to understand what matters and what steps to take next.
ACT can make a big impact on how you handle challenging thoughts, feelings, and situations. Using the skills and tools in acceptance and commitment therapy can make positive changes in your life.
Learn more about ACT and how it can be helpful for you.
Get started in therapy at Calm Waters Counseling by following these 4 simple steps:
Click the button below to schedule your free 15-minute consultation
Complete the brief questionnaire sent to your email before the consultation
Meet with your ACT therapist
Start living your life with more enjoyment
Therapy for High Achievers in Wilmington, NC at Calm Waters Counseling
Learn more about me and my Wilmington, NC virtual therapy practice.
High achieving women are busy, goal setting, get-the-job-done kinda ladies. It is easy to see why stress and anxiety are present and burnout happens.
I get and understand the pressures you place on yourself, expectations from others, a big dash of people-pleasing, and a smatter of exhaustion can do you.
This is why I have found ACT to work well for high achievers.
Check out all services at Calm Waters Counseling, listed below:
Anxiety therapy in Wilmington, NC
Treatment for Perfectionism in Maryland
Burnout Counseling in Wilmington, NC
Therapy for Imposter Syndrome in Wilmington, NC
Online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in North Carolina
Online therapy continues to remain a useful and popular option for high achievers. It is because of the many benefits online therapy offers that and works well with the lifestyle of a high achiever.
Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy online is similar to and just as effective as being in an in-person therapy session.
Learn more about ACT therapy for burnout counseling.
Click the links below to learn about online therapy where you live.
online burnout therapy in North Carolina
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Written by: Laura Rippeon, LCSW, LCSW-C
Updated 3/17/23