— INDIVIDUAL THERAPY —
Burnout therapy for the person everyone else relies on
MyMindset NYC · Online therapy · Licensed in NY, FL & DC
You don't need a dramatic reason to be here. Most of the people I work with had been holding it together for years, and something in that started to give.
Maybe the exhaustion stopped lifting on weekends. Maybe someone asked what you needed and you realized you had no idea. Maybe "good enough" has never once felt like enough. That's what burnout looks like in most of the people I work with. It rarely arrives as a collapse. It arrives as a slow narrowing of what you have left over at the end of a week.
Online therapy for burnout across New York, Florida, and Washington D.C., for first-generation adults who have been holding it all together.No waitlist. Most people start within a week.
— HOW THE WORK GOES —
How I actually work
By the time burnout brings someone in, they've usually already been told what to do about it. I'm trained in Somatic Therapy and Internal Family Systems. Those are clinical words, so here's what they mean in a session.
We pay attention to your body
Your body has been carrying this the whole time, usually without much thanks. So we make room for it. When something shifts while you're talking — your throat, your shoulders, your breath — we slow down and get curious instead of moving past it. You've done enough moving past things.
Sometimes that means just naming what you notice. Sometimes we'll do something with it like breathe together or stretch to help your system settle. I do it alongside you, not from across the screen.
We get curious about your parts
The one who performs. The one who scans the room. The one who says "I'm fine" before checking. In IFS we treat these as parts of you that took on jobs, usually young, usually for good reason. We don't fight them. We find out what they're protecting, and what it would take for them to stand down.
We go at the pace your nervous system can handle
Not the pace you think you should be moving at. Those are different speeds, and the second one is usually the problem.
I'm active in sessions
I ask questions. I follow the thread. I'll tell you what I'm noticing. If you've had a therapist who mostly listened while you ran out of things to say, this won't be that. I also check in about what's working and what isn't, and I mean it when I ask.
— YOUR TOMORROW —
What changes in therapy for burnout and over-functioning?
Therapy doesn’t hand you a different life. Some of what’s hard will still be hard. What changes is your relationship to it, how much you’re carrying alone, and how much of it gets to run you.
Here’s what clients describe over months of this work:
- Recognizing the over-functioning while it’s happening, instead of after your body forces the stop
- Saying no without a paragraph of justification attached
- Physical things easing: the jaw, the sleep, the mornings that started with a jolt
- Being able to name a want, which sounds small and is not
- Less time replaying conversations
- Relationships where you’re a person, not a service
- Telling the difference between discomfort and danger, so you stop bracing for both
- Noticing whose voice the self-criticism is actually in
- Finishing something and letting it be finished
In your relationships
People-pleasing stops looking like kindness and starts looking like what it’s been, a way to avoid conflict that cost you the conflict and yourself. Over time, the anxious or avoidant pattern you’ve been running has room to shift toward something steadier, and you get better at telling healthy love from familiar love.
In what’s actually yours to carry
You get more precise about the difference between what you control, what you can influence, and what was never in your hands at all. That sounds like a thinking exercise. It isn’t. It’s the thing that decides how much of a week you spend on situations that were never going to move.
The part nobody expects
Somewhere in this work, you grieve. The emotional neglect. The parent who was present and unavailable at the same time. The childhood where you were the responsible one before anyone asked. You start decentering the family that shaped the over-functioning. Not cutting them off, just no longer organizing your nervous system around them.
This isn't a quick fix, and I want to be upfront about that. Most people come in for one thing and find that it opens a door to something older. There isn’t a get-better-quick version of this, and I’d rather say so now than let you find out in month three.
No waitlist. Most people start within a week.
— WHEN IT'S THE JOB —
When the burnout is coming from your job
Sometimes the clearest place to see the over-functioning is at work.
You're the one who catches what falls. You answer at 10pm because not answering costs more by Monday. Over time you trained the people around you to expect it. Now the expectation is a job description nobody wrote down.
Work stress therapy often gets described as coping skills. Coping skills are not nothing. But if you've already tried the breathing app, the calendar blocks and the 6am gym, techniques are probably not what's missing.
Work burnout is the part people can name. What we work on is the part underneath it. The piece of you that can't let the ball drop, and what it believes will happen if it does. That part learned its job long before this employer.
Some of what we'd look at:
Which of this is the job, and which is the pattern you brought to the job
What your body does on a Sunday evening
Saying no at work without a paragraph of justification
Whether leaving would solve it. Sometimes it would, and sometimes you'd rebuild the same arrangement somewhere new
Burnout from work usually eases when the demand eases. If a week off has stopped making a difference, that's the part worth starting with.
— READINESS —
Are you ready for this kind of work?
Being a good fit for me isn't only about what you're carrying. It's about how you want to work on it.This is probably a fit if
- Are willing to meet weekly or biweekly, and to stay with it past the point where the immediate struggles eases
- Want to understand why the pattern formed, not only how to manage it
- Can tolerate slowing down, even when slowing down feels unbearable
- Are open to noticing what your body is doing, not just talking about what happened
- Will tell me when something isn't working, because I ask and I mean it
And probably not if
- You need same-day or crisis care (If you're in crisis, call or text 988.)
- I offer individual counseling for adults only, so I’m not the right fit for couples sessions, or for a teen or child. I’ll point you toward someone who does that work
- You need to use Medicaid or Medicare
If you read that and thought I don't know if I can slow down, that's not a disqualification. That's usually the thing we end up working on.
— WHAT TO EXPECT —
What sessions look like
| Format | Online, on a HIPAA-compliant platform |
|---|---|
| Length | 45–60 minutes |
| Frequency | Weekly or biweekly to start |
| Fee | $225, with a sliding scale from $140 |
| Where | Anywhere in New York, Florida, or Washington D.C. |
| Languages | English, with Haitian Kreyòl welcome in session |
| First step | A free 20-minute consultation |
— WHAT TO EXPECT —
What the first few sessions are like
Your first few appointments, we start with what brought you in, what you've already tried, and what you want to be different. You don't have to tell the whole story on day one and if you've never done therapy before, you don't need to know how to do it. That's my job.
— FEES —
What it costs
Sessions are $225 for 45–60 minutes.
I offer a sliding scale from $140 to $225, based on an anti-oppressive rate structure, for clients experiencing financial hardship. There's a short questionnaire on the Fees page that tells you where you land: no negotiating, no explaining yourself.
I'm out-of-network with all insurance plans. Many plans reimburse a portion of an out-of-network session once your deductible is met. Mentaya verifies your benefits and submits claims for you, and most clients see reimbursement within a week of the session. I also provide superbills.
I accept debit, credit, ACH, HSA, and FSA. I'm not able to accept Medicaid or Medicare.
— FROM A COLLEAGUE —
What other therapists say
"It is so easy to talk to Jessica. She is a compassionate, well-trained therapist for anyone facing burnout, anxiety or trauma. Her culturally-informed, respectful approach is perfect for adult children of immigrants."
— DURING THERAPY —
What’s underneath the burnout
Burnout is usually the front door. These are the areas I work in most. Follow whichever one sounds like your life.
- Anxiety & Chronic Stress when rest stops working
- Depression & Emotional Detachment when you're functioning and feeling nothing
- Emotionally Immature Parents when your feelings weren’t on the list
- Complex Trauma & CPTSD when the harm happened inside a relationship
- Racial Trauma & Cultural Stress the exhaustion of being the only one in the room
- Attachment & Relationship Patterns the cycles you keep ending up in
- Affirming LGBTQIA+ Care care that doesn't start with an explanation
- Self-Esteem & Self-Worth when your worth is tied to your output
- Personal Growth & Life Changes when something needs to change and you can't name what
I also work with people navigating family conflict, emotionally immature parents/emotionally unavailable parents, infidelity and betrayal, recovery from narcissistic abuse, substance use, addiction, neurodiversity, spirituality, identity, and grief. If it's affecting how you live, it belongs here.
MyMindset is a BIPOC-affirming practice: welcoming across genders, racial and ethnic identities, countries of origin, sexualities, relationship orientations, religions, abilities, and body sizes. You do not have to translate yourself here.— WHERE MY CLIENTS ARE —
Burnout therapy across New York, Florida, and Washington D.C.
All sessions are online, which means the only thing that matters is where you are during the appointment, not where you live, where you work, or where your mail goes.
Most of my clients are in New York. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, Long Island and Westchester. A lot of them are the person their team leans on, and they book the hour that used to be the commute.
In Florida: Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Jacksonville, and anywhere else in the state.
In Washington, D.C.: anywhere in the District.
No commute, no waiting room, no sitting in a lobby hoping you don't see someone you know. When you're already running on empty, an hour of therapy that costs an hour is a different proposition from one that costs three.
— COMMON QUESTIONS —
Questions people ask
How do I know if I need therapy or if I'm just tired?
Is individual counseling the same as individual therapy?
What is somatic therapy?
Will I have to do breathing exercises or movement?
That might look like breathing together when things start to feel overwhelming. It might be tapping to help you settle, or resting your own hand on the place you're feeling tension or warmth. Some days it's standing up and stretching to get back in the room.
Whatever we do, I do it with you. I'm not watching from the other side of the screen while you try something alone.
And you can decline any of it, at any point, without explaining why. That won't derail the session. It's useful information on its own.
What is IFS therapy?
Do I have to talk about my childhood?
My last therapist just listened. I'd run out of things to say and sit in silence. Do you do that?
I've never been in therapy. Will I know what to do?
What if I don't think I have "real" trauma?
Do you work with perfectionism?
Perfectionism is less about the standard than about what you believe happens if you miss it. For a lot of people that belief got set early, somewhere being good was how you stayed safe, or how you stayed out of the way.
We don’t work on lowering your standards. We work on what the standard is protecting you from, and on whether your worth has to go on being something you earn. More on perfectionism and self-worth →
Can I do this if my schedule is unpredictable?
How do I know if you're the right therapist for me?
Is it burnout or is it my job?
Some of it is the job. The workload, the manager, the expectation that you'll absorb whatever nobody else will. Some of it is the pattern you brought with you, which is why the same arrangement can rebuild itself at the next place.
We work out which is which, because the answer changes what you do about it. Leaving a job you need to leave is a real option. So is finding out that leaving wouldn't have touched it.
Can therapy help with work stress?
Work stress therapy with me means noticing what your body is doing before Sunday night arrives, saying no without a paragraph of justification attached, and working out what the over-functioning is protecting.
On paperwork: for clients I’ve been working with over time, I do complete FMLA and disability forms. I can’t do that at intake, because the form asks me to attest to a clinical history I’d need to have actually seen. I don’t conduct psychological testing or evaluations for court, immigration, or school. See fees and sliding scale →
— WHENEVER YOU’RE READY —
You've read this far.
That probably means something here landed.
The next step is smaller than it feels: twenty minutes, free, on the phone. You tell me what's going on. I tell you how I'd work with it. Nobody signs anything.
If I'm not the right person, I'll say so, and I'll help you find who is. You've spent enough of your life sorting things out alone.
No waitlist. Most people start within a week. Prefer to write first?