Load audit
A clear picture of demands, resources, and the gap between them.
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Stress Management
Burnout is not a personality flaw. It is a load problem, and load problems have a solvable shape.
50-minute sessionsWorkplace stress · BurnoutTuesday until 6.30pm
Per 50-minute session, plus GST. Full fees are on the packages and pricing page. Sessions run online by secure video across Australia and New Zealand, by telephone, or in person in Melbourne by arrangement.
Stress management starts with an honest audit: what is on you, what is genuinely yours, and what has quietly been handed to you. Then we work both sides of the equation — reducing the load where it can be reduced, and increasing your capacity to carry the rest.
This is practical work. Boundaries you can actually hold, the conversation at work you have been rehearsing for months, and recovery built into the week instead of postponed until a holiday.
Signs the load is too high
- Sunday night dread and Monday exhaustion
- A short fuse with the people you like most
- Sleep that no longer restores you
- Cynicism about work you used to care about
- Getting sick every time you finally stop
What we work on together
Boundaries that hold
Language and follow-through for saying no, renegotiating and delegating.
Real recovery
Daily and weekly recovery designed around your actual life, not an ideal one.
How the work unfolds
Load auditingBoundary workRecovery designAssertive communication
01
Audit the load
Everything currently on you, written down, sorted into what is yours, what was handed to you, and what you took on by default.
02
Reduce where possible
The conversations, delegations and refusals that actually lower the load — planned, worded and rehearsed.
03
Build capacity
Sleep, movement and recovery designed into the week, plus the regulation skills that stop small pressures compounding.
04
Hold the line
What to do when the load creeps back, and the early warning signs that tell you it has.
“Turns out half of what I was carrying was never mine to carry.”
Client · stress and burnout
Common questions
My job is the problem. Can counselling help if I cannot leave?+
Yes. We work on what is inside your control — boundaries, expectations, recovery, and the specific conversations with a manager that change your actual workload rather than just your attitude to it.
Is this the same as burnout treatment?+
Burnout is the far end of the same spectrum and it needs recovery time as well as skills. If you are there, we prioritise rest, medical review and reducing demand before anything else.
Can you provide documentation for my employer?+
As a counsellor I do not issue medical certificates — your GP does. I can provide a letter confirming you are engaged in counselling if that is useful.
More answers in the general FAQs, or ask Anne directly.
Practical guides for this work
Often works alongside
Anxiety Counselling
Turn the volume down on worry and get your decisions back from it.
Individual Counselling
One-to-one work to understand what is going on and decide what to do about it.
Anger Management Counselling
Understand the trigger, learn the pause. Court-recognised four-session program available.
Ready to start with Stress Management?
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