Online therapy for burnout from just $25/session with licensed therapists (PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT) specializing in evidence-based approaches including CBT, ACT, and mindfulness-based stress reduction. At Grouport, we offer online individual therapy, online group therapy, and virtual IOP options designed to help you recover from chronic exhaustion, rebuild your sense of purpose, and create sustainable boundaries that protect your wellbeing.
Whether you prefer personalized one-on-one care or the shared support of a therapist-led group, our online burnout therapy connects you to expert guidance from the comfort of your own home, on a schedule that fits around the demanding life that brought you here.
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At Grouport, we offer a range of online therapy options to help individuals recover from burnout, rebuild energy and motivation, and develop lasting strategies for sustainable work and life balance. Many members choose to mix and match therapy formats.
Online therapy for burnout: personalized, flexible, and therapist-led. Rebuild your energy, purpose, and boundaries with dedicated support every step of the way.
Whether you're interested in group therapy, individual sessions, couples or family therapy, or IOP, or a combination, you'll start by selecting the type of support that fits your needs. You can also choose the care frequency that works best for you. Complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will walk you through available therapists, group options, and scheduling. You'll make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you'll meet with and when, based on your goals, preferences, and schedule.
Attend your weekly online sessions, whether group, individual, couples, family, or IOP, at the cadence that works best for you. Our team will be here to support you every step of the way, ensuring you're happy with your care plan and helping you make changes whenever needed.
Whether you're interested in online group therapy for burnout, individual therapy sessions, a combination of both, or our virtual IOP for more intensive care, you'll start by selecting the format that fits your needs and schedule. You can customize the frequency of sessions and even pair live therapy with our DBT self-guided program for added support between sessions. Just complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will discuss your mental health challenges, goals, and preferences. They'll walk you through the range of therapy options best suited to your needs for managing burnout. You'll make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you'll meet with and select session times that are most convenient for you.
Attend your weekly online therapy sessions to build coping skills, mood regulation strategies, and stability tools tailored to burnout. Our team will be here to support you at every step of the way, ensuring you're happy with your care plan and helping you make changes whenever needed.
Burnout is more than just feeling tired after a long week. It is a state of chronic physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced effectiveness brought on by prolonged stress, often from work, caregiving, school, or the relentless pace of daily life. Left unaddressed, it can erode your health, your relationships, and your sense of purpose. If these patterns persist, therapy can help you recover and rebuild.
Common signs to watch for include:
If you recognize these patterns in yourself or a loved one, working with a licensed therapist can help.
Burnout does not stay contained to the area of your life that caused it. The exhaustion, detachment, and emotional depletion it creates can spill into every part of your life, often in ways that compound over time.
Burnout creates a paradox: the harder you push, the less effective you become. Concentration drops, creativity disappears, mistakes increase, and the work that once energized you feels meaningless. Many people experiencing burnout are at risk of making impulsive career decisions they later regret.
When you are running on empty, you have nothing left to give to the people who matter most. Burnout leads to emotional withdrawal, irritability with loved ones, and a pattern of being physically present but mentally elsewhere. Partners, friends, and family feel the distance.
Chronic stress takes a measurable toll on the body. Burnout is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, weakened immune function, chronic pain, insomnia, and digestive problems. Many people in burnout only seek help when physical symptoms force them to.
Burnout frequently co-occurs with depression and anxiety. The emotional exhaustion can develop into clinical depression, while the constant sense of being behind or inadequate fuels anxiety. Left unaddressed, burnout can lead to a mental health crisis.
For people who tie their identity to productivity or achievement, burnout can trigger an existential crisis. When you can no longer perform at the level you expect, you may question your value, competence, and purpose.
Burnout impairs your ability to recover even when you have time off. Vacations feel insufficient, weekends pass without restoration, and you may feel guilty for resting. The inability to recharge perpetuates the cycle and makes burnout progressively worse.
Starting therapy when you are already exhausted and unmotivated can feel like a big ask. Here is what your first few sessions typically look like.
Your therapist will ask about your experience with burnout: what your daily life looks like, where the pressure is coming from, how long you have been feeling this way, and what has changed. This is a space to be honest about how depleted you feel without judgment.
Together, you will explore the specific factors fueling your burnout, whether that is workload, lack of autonomy, unclear expectations, perfectionism, caregiving demands, or difficulty saying no. Your therapist will help you distinguish between external stressors and internal patterns that keep you overextending.
You and your therapist will define what recovery looks like for you. This might include reducing work hours, improving sleep, rebuilding hobbies, setting boundaries, or addressing the underlying beliefs that drive overwork. Goals are always personalized and realistic.
Your therapist will introduce evidence-based techniques like cognitive restructuring, behavioral activation, boundary-setting skills, and stress management strategies. You will leave your first session with a clear understanding of the path forward and initial steps to begin reclaiming your energy.
See how our therapy options have helped our members experience life-changing results
Stephanie
“Grouport is time flexible and affordable and if it didn’t exist, I don’t know where I would go. I had looked into other places before Grouport and there really wasn’t any option like it.”
Michael
“I highly recommend this to anyone who is struggling with anxiety or depression. The therapists are top notch and have made me feel really comfortable and my anxiety has improved tremendously in only a few sessions!”
Isabel
"I joined Grouport to work on myself and to heal. I’m learning so much at every session! The change I see not only in myself but in my fellow group members is abundantly encouraging and profoundly fulfilling. Group therapy with Grouport is a powerful healing tool."
Sheldon
“I was feeling very down at the end of 2020 and I was ready to do something drastic that I know I'd likely regret. The group definitely helped show me that there are people who feel the same way as I do.”
Nancy
“The therapy from Grouport is high quality and convenient. I am becoming much more self aware and am liking myself more. My relationships at work are better and I’m much happier.”
Emily
“I like the connection you can make with total strangers and the confidentiality it comes with.”
Danielle
"Grouport can help you with your issues. Their therapists are well trained to work with you on your issues. I felt my anxiety greatly improve after only a few sessions. I highly recommend it!"
Glenn
"Grouport's approach to DBT is a real strength. This approach provides tools and methods for working with difficult emotions and getting a handle on them. It has given me hope where other approaches have failed."
At Grouport, our virtual burnout therapy integrates several evidence-based techniques designed to help you restore energy, rebuild boundaries, and develop a sustainable relationship with work and life:
CBT helps you identify and challenge the thought patterns that fuel burnout, such as "I have to do everything perfectly," "If I say no, I will be seen as lazy," or "I cannot slow down or everything will fall apart." By examining these beliefs and developing more balanced perspectives, you reduce the internal pressure that drives chronic overextension.
Burnout often strips away the activities that recharge you, leaving only obligations. Behavioral activation helps you systematically reintroduce pleasurable, restorative, and meaningful activities into your life. Your therapist will help you identify what energizes you and build a schedule that includes genuine rest and fulfillment alongside responsibilities.
Many people in burnout have lost touch with their own needs and values because they have been operating on autopilot. This approach helps you clarify what truly matters to you, identify where your current life is misaligned with those values, and develop practical skills for saying no, delegating, and protecting your time and energy.
MBSR teaches you to respond to stress with awareness rather than reactivity. Through meditation, body scanning, and mindful awareness practices, you learn to notice early signs of overwhelm before you hit the wall. MBSR is especially effective for burnout because it helps you create mental space between stressors and your response to them.
ACT helps you accept difficult feelings like exhaustion and frustration without letting them drive unhealthy behaviors like overworking. By connecting your daily choices to your deeper values, ACT helps you build a life that feels meaningful and sustainable rather than one driven by obligation, fear, or external validation.
DBT skills, particularly emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness, give you practical tools for managing the emotional toll of burnout. Emotion regulation helps you process frustration, resentment, and exhaustion constructively. Interpersonal effectiveness skills help you communicate boundaries, make requests, and say no without guilt.
Every Grouport therapist is a licensed, accredited mental health professional with experience helping people recover from burnout, chronic stress, and sustained overextension, using evidence-based approaches like CBT, ACT, and mindfulness-based stress reduction.
Our therapists typically have over a decade of clinical experience across diverse settings, with specialized expertise in mood disorders, burnout, chronic stress, and work-life balance, and evidence-based interventions like CBT, gradual exposure therapy, and DBT.
We continually evaluate outcomes through internal studies and outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne.
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80%
of our members start with moderate to severe mental health symptoms
70%
of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks
50%
of our members achieve remission levels within just 8 weeks
Group, individual, couples, family, IOP, and teen therapy — all online, all therapist-led. Mix and match care options to fit your needs — and get discounted pricing when you bundle.
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Burnout often co-occurs with other mental health conditions. Our licensed therapists are experienced in treating a wide range of challenges, and many members address multiple concerns simultaneously through our flexible therapy options.
Grouport provides online group therapy, individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, teen therapy, intensive outpatient program (IOP), all held virtually over video chat. We also offer a DBT self-guided program. Many members combine multiple therapy types to best fit their needs.
Burnout is a state of chronic physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged and excessive stress. The World Health Organization recognizes it as an occupational phenomenon with three defining dimensions: energy depletion or exhaustion, increased mental distance or cynicism toward your work, and reduced professional effectiveness. Burnout can also affect caregivers, parents, students, and anyone under sustained pressure.
Stress and burnout are related but distinct. Stress is characterized by overengagement: too much pressure, too many demands, but you still believe things could improve if you could just get everything under control. Burnout is characterized by disengagement: emotional flatness, hopelessness, and the feeling that nothing you do matters. Stress feels like drowning in responsibilities. Burnout feels like you have dried up completely.
Yes, every Grouport therapist is accredited and licensed. Our network includes Licensed Psychologists (PhD, PsyD), Licensed Social Workers (LCSW), Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHC), and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT). Our therapists specialize in evidence-based approaches for burnout including CBT, ACT, and mindfulness-based stress reduction.
Burnout is not classified as a standalone mental health disorder in the DSM-5, but it is recognized by the World Health Organization in the ICD-11 as an occupational phenomenon. Regardless of classification, burnout is a serious condition that frequently co-occurs with and can develop into clinical depression and anxiety. Therapy for burnout is both appropriate and effective.
Yes. Therapy does not require you to quit your job to be effective. While some people ultimately decide to make career changes, therapy primarily helps you change how you relate to work: setting boundaries, challenging perfectionism, managing expectations, communicating needs, and rebuilding a life outside of work obligations. Many people find that therapy transforms their work experience without changing their actual role.
Recovery timelines vary depending on the severity and duration of your burnout. Many people begin feeling a meaningful shift within 6-8 weeks of consistent therapy. Full recovery, especially from severe burnout, can take several months. The key is not just feeling better but building sustainable habits and boundaries that prevent burnout from recurring.
Finding the right therapy starts with understanding your needs. If you prefer personalized attention, individual therapy provides dedicated one-on-one care. If you benefit from shared experiences and peer support, group therapy connects you with others who understand burnout. For more intensive support, our virtual IOP offers multiple weekly sessions. Many members combine therapy formats for the best results. Not sure where to start? Schedule a free call with a care coordinator who can help you build a personalized plan based on your symptoms, goals, and schedule.
We offer flexible therapy options with straightforward pricing:
Online Group Therapy: Averages $32/session ($140/month).
Online Individual Therapy: Averages $103/session ($448/month).
Online Couples Therapy: Averages $114/session ($492/month).
Online Family Therapy: Averages $148/session ($640/month).
Virtual IOP: Averages $311/week ($1,348/month).
Online Teen Therapy: Averages $103/session ($448/month).
DBT Self-Guided Program: One-time fee of $500.
Payment Options: Monthly, Quarterly (Save 10%), Biannually (Save 15%). No long-term commitment. Switch therapists anytime. Cancel anytime!
Yes. We offer separate therapy groups for Adults (18+) and Teens and Adolescents (under 18). Our teen therapy programs are tailored for adolescents. Academic burnout, extracurricular overload, and social pressure are increasingly common among teens, and early intervention helps them develop healthier relationships with achievement and self-worth.
While anyone can experience burnout, certain groups are especially vulnerable: healthcare professionals, teachers and educators, caregivers (both professional and family), startup founders and entrepreneurs, people in high-pressure corporate environments, parents (especially single parents), first responders, social workers, and students facing intense academic pressure. People with perfectionist tendencies, difficulty saying no, or a strong need for external validation are also at higher risk.
Yes, if the underlying patterns and circumstances are not addressed. This is why effective burnout therapy goes beyond symptom relief to help you build sustainable boundaries, challenge the beliefs that drive overwork, and create systems that protect your wellbeing long-term. Relapse prevention is a core part of burnout treatment at Grouport.
Our therapy outcomes are backed by outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne. Across all conditions, 80% of members report meaningful improvement in baseline severity, and the majority report improved daily functioning and quality of life.
You can cancel your subscription at any time. No long-term commitment is required. Simply email us at support@grouporttherapy.com and we will send you a quick cancellation form to fill out. If your sessions occur within the member portal, you can also cancel under the manage subscription tab.
Whether you're exhausted, disillusioned, and running on fumes-related anxiety, or looking to prevent another year of lost months, therapy can help you take back control. Start building a life where the seasons don't dictate how you feel.
