InnerHub

Stress and burnout · Therapy

Running on empty is not a personality type.

Therapy for burnout and chronic stress: for the people holding everything up while quietly running out of everything.

Find a therapist$59.90 AUD per session, flat

What this is

Stress and burnout, in real life

Burnout rarely announces itself. It accumulates: a few brutal quarters, a caring load at home, a phone that ended office hours, and one day you notice the tank is not refilling on weekends anymore. You are functioning, technically. But the colour has drained out, the fuse is short, and rest stopped working.

Stress therapy is a regular space to look at what is draining you, what restores you, and what needs renegotiating so the week becomes sustainable again.

A professional on her balcony at dusk, mug in both hands, eyes closed, finally off the clock

Sound familiar?

How it tends to show up

  • Sunday dread that starts on Saturday afternoon
  • Exhaustion that sleep does not fix
  • Cynicism creeping into work you used to care about
  • Snappishness at home you do not recognise as you
  • Concentration and memory getting unreliable
  • Coping habits quietly scaling: wine, doomscrolling, overwork

How therapy helps

What the work actually looks like

With a practitioner experienced in stress and overload, the work is both immediate and structural:

  • Triage: recovering functional energy before anything else
  • Mapping the actual drains, including the ones you call normal
  • Boundary work at the source: workload, availability, the invisible jobs
  • Rebuilding the parts of life that refill you, on purpose

Fair questions

Asked before booking

Is burnout a medical condition?

Burnout is recognised as an occupational phenomenon rather than a medical diagnosis. If what you are experiencing needs medical care, your practitioner will say so and point you to a doctor: that honesty is part of our standards.

I do not have time for weekly sessions. Ironic, I know.

Fortnightly works, evenings work, and pay-per-session means a brutal fortnight can skip without penalty. The structure bends around the exact problem that brought you here.

Can I claim this through work?

InnerHub sits outside EAP and insurance systems, so sessions are personal purchases. At $59.90 flat, most people find it comparable to what a single gap fee used to cost them.

Therapy is support, not clinical treatment: our practitioners do not diagnose or prescribe, and when what you need sits beyond therapy, their job is to say so and point you to it. Who they are and how we hold them to that is on Our Standards, and if you need urgent help right now, the numbers on crisis support are free and answer around the clock.

Talk to someone this week

Get matched with a therapist. $59.90 flat, no referral.

Find a therapist$59.90 AUD per session

For adults 18 and over. InnerHub does not provide crisis support: if you need urgent help, call 000 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.