Work or Career Issues and Burnout
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About Work or Career Issues and Burnout
Work Stress & Burnout Therapy in Santa Monica & Los Angeles
Workplace difficulties and career burnout reasons that many people seek therapy and among the most underserved. Whether you’re dealing with a toxic work environment, a crisis of meaning, a difficult boss or colleague, career indecision, or the creeping exhaustion of chronic overwork, therapy can help you understand what’s happening and make clearer choices.
Dr. Sally Hackman, PhD, MFT, helps professionals in Santa Monica and throughout Los Angeles navigate the complex intersection of work life, identity, and wellbeing. Work is deeply tied to how we see ourselves — and when it goes wrong, it can affect every other area of life.
Key Points
Reclaim Your Wellbeing at Work.
Empowering Resilience
Understand the personal patterns, needs, and values that shape your relationship with work — and develop the clarity and boundaries to protect your wellbeing.
Healing Space
A confidential, non-judgmental space to speak honestly about work challenges in person in Santa Monica or via Zoom.
Transformative Support
Dr. Hackman works with professionals at all stages of career from young adults navigating early career anxiety to mid-career professionals facing burnout and senior executives managing high-pressure environments.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
Your Wellbeing Is Our Priority.
Burnout is not a sign of weakness it is a signal that something needs to change. Therapy helps you identify what that is and build the clarity and courage to act on it.
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First Session Free If You Don't Return
FAQ
Common Questions
Burnout is more than fatigue. It typically involves emotional exhaustion, depersonalization (feeling detached from your work or colleagues), and a sense of ineffectiveness — and it doesn't go away with a weekend off.
Yes. Even in situations you can't immediately change, therapy helps you respond to them differently — protecting your wellbeing, processing the stress, and making clearer decisions about what to do next.
A hard stretch usually has an end in sight, and you still feel like yourself outside of work. Burnout is different it tends to be chronic exhaustion that doesn't lift with a weekend off, a growing sense of cynicism or detachment from work you used to care about, and a feeling that nothing you do makes a real difference anymore. If rest isn't helping and the feeling has settled in rather than passing, that's a sign it's worth looking at more closely.
Yes — and often that's exactly the question underneath the burnout. Therapy won't hand you an answer, but it can help you separate "this specific job is wrong" from "something about how I work needs to change" from "I actually need a different career entirely." Getting clear on which one you're facing makes the decision much less overwhelming.
Therapy can't change your workplace, but it can change how much power that environment has over you. That includes setting boundaries you haven't been able to hold, deciding what's actually within your control versus what isn't, and figuring out whether the right move is changing how you engage with the situation or making a plan to leave it. Both are legitimate outcomes.