Burnout Therapy Online | Dr. Corinne Votaw-Freer, Licensed Psychologist

PsyD Burnout &
Stress
Specialist

Your Therapist

Hi, I’m Corinne.

“Burnout isn’t a productivity problem. It’s what happens when the way you’ve been living stops being sustainable — and your mind and body finally say so.”

I’m a licensed psychologist offering therapy for burnout and chronic stress online for adults in Alaska, Colorado, Nevada, and Texas. I work with people who are exhausted in a way that sleep doesn’t fix — people who used to feel capable and energized and can’t figure out what happened to that version of themselves.

Burnout is real, it’s treatable, and it almost always has deeper roots than just working too much. Therapy can help you understand those roots and build something more sustainable — not just recover enough to do it all again.

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Do You Recognize Yourself?

Burnout is more than being tired

Most people who are burned out don’t lead with that word. They say they’re fine, just tired. They push through, take a vacation, try to get better at time management. And then they’re back in the same place two months later — or somewhere worse.

Burnout is what happens when prolonged stress depletes you past the point where ordinary recovery works. It shows up in your body, your motivation, your ability to feel things, and your relationships — often all at once.

It’s also rarely just about the job. Burnout tends to develop in people who carry a lot, who have learned to override their own needs, who tie their worth closely to their output, or who have been running on adrenaline long enough that slowing down feels more threatening than staying in overdrive.

If that sounds familiar, what you need isn’t another productivity hack. You need space to actually look at what’s driving this — and support to change it.

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Exhaustion That Doesn’t Lift

Tired no matter how much you sleep, rest, or take time off — a depletion that feels physical and bone-deep

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Cynicism & Detachment

Things you used to care about feel hollow. You’re going through the motions but the meaning has drained out

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Dread & Avoidance

Dreading work, obligations, or even your phone — procrastinating things you’d normally handle without a second thought

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Reduced Effectiveness

Struggling to concentrate, make decisions, or produce the quality of work you used to do without effort

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Irritability & Short Fuse

Snapping at people you care about, low frustration tolerance, or a simmering resentment you can’t fully explain

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Emotional Numbness

Feeling flat, disconnected from joy, or like you’re watching your own life from a slight remove

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Physical Symptoms

Headaches, gut issues, frequent illness, jaw tension, or a body that keeps sending signals you keep trying to ignore

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Loss of Identity

Uncertainty about who you are when you’re not performing or producing — a self that feels contingent on output

Who I Work With

Burnout doesn’t only happen to one kind of person

Burnout gets talked about mostly in the context of high-powered careers, but it shows up across many life contexts — and it tends to hit hardest in people who care the most.

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Professional Burnout

Exhaustion from sustained high-demand work, constant availability, and a culture that treats rest as weakness

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Caregiver Burnout

The depletion that comes from consistently prioritizing others — parents, partners, adult children of aging parents

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Helping Professional Burnout

Therapists, nurses, teachers, social workers, and others whose work requires sustained emotional labor

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Academic Burnout

Graduate students, early-career professionals, and high achievers who have been grinding without adequate support

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Activist & Mission-Driven Burnout

The particular exhaustion of working toward something meaningful in a world that keeps pushing back

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Identity-Based Burnout

The cumulative toll of navigating systems, workplaces, or relationships where you have to work harder just to be seen as equal

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Relationship & Life-Stage Burnout

Exhaustion from sustained relational stress, major life transitions, or the invisible load of managing everything for everyone

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Burnout with Underlying Anxiety or Depression

When burnout intersects with anxiety, perfectionism, or depression that has been fueling the overdrive all along

How We Treat It

Therapy that addresses the root, not just the symptoms

Real recovery from burnout isn’t about doing less for a while and hoping you bounce back. It’s about understanding what drove you here and making meaningful changes to how you relate to yourself and your life.

More Than Rest: A Psychological Approach to Burnout

Burnout has psychological roots that a vacation won’t touch. Often the same patterns that made you effective — high standards, strong sense of responsibility, difficulty asking for help, an identity built around capability — are exactly what left you depleted. Therapy gives you the space to examine those patterns honestly.

Depending on what we find, treatment may also include trauma-informed work or EMDR if burnout is connected to a history of pushing through things you never fully processed.

Values Clarification

Getting honest about what actually matters to you — versus what you’ve been performing or achieving for other reasons

Boundary & Identity Work

Understanding the internal barriers to saying no, slowing down, or letting yourself matter as much as your responsibilities

Trauma-Informed Care

When burnout runs deeper than overwork — addressing the anxiety, perfectionism, or early experiences that have been driving the pattern

What Recovery Looks Like

What you can expect to gain

Recovery from burnout isn’t just getting back to baseline — it’s understanding why baseline wasn’t working, and building something better.

✓ Relief from the physical and emotional exhaustion that rest alone hasn’t fixed
✓ A clearer sense of what you actually want, separate from what you feel obligated to do
✓ The ability to set limits without guilt — and mean them
✓ Reconnection with motivation and meaning that feels genuine, not performed
✓ A more stable sense of self that isn’t contingent on productivity or performance
✓ Sustainable patterns — so you can do good work and have a life at the same time

How We Work Together

What therapy for burnout looks like, step by step

Burnout therapy isn’t a quick fix — and anyone promising one should raise a flag. Here’s how our work typically unfolds, at a pace that respects where you are.

Initial Evaluation (90 min)

We start with a thorough intake to understand your history, how burnout is showing up across your work, body, and relationships, and what you most want to be different. This gives us a shared picture of what we’re dealing with — and gives you a chance to figure out if working together feels right.

Stabilization & Immediate Relief (3–5 Sessions)

Before we dig into the roots, we focus on what will give you the most relief right now: regulating your nervous system, reducing the acute overwhelm, and building enough breathing room to do deeper work. This phase is practical and grounding — not bypassing the real issues, but making sure you have the capacity to explore them.

Understanding the Pattern (6–10 Sessions)

This is where we go deeper: examining the beliefs, histories, and relational patterns that made burnout likely for you specifically. What does it mean to you to be productive? Where did that come from? What gets in the way of having limits? The goal isn’t just insight — it’s real, behavioral change.

Building Something Sustainable

We consolidate what you’ve learned, reinforce new patterns, and prepare you for the moments — and they will come — when old habits try to pull you back. Some clients feel ready to close at this stage; others choose to continue with occasional maintenance sessions as life changes.

No Surprises

Insurance accepted for burnout therapy

Burnout therapy sessions are billed the same as standard therapy — which means your insurance coverage applies. I accept the following plans across Alaska, Colorado, Nevada, and Texas.

✓ Aetna

✓ Cigna

✓ Quest

✓ Select Health

✓ Carelon

✓ Blue Cross Blue Shield

◯ United Health / Optum (Coming Soon)

◯ Oxford (Coming Soon)

◯ Oscar (Coming Soon)

◯ Ascension / SmartHealth (Coming Soon)

Not sure if you’re covered? Ask during your free consultation call — I’m happy to help you figure it out.

Why It Matters

Burnout recovery requires real continuity of care

Working with me directly

Burnout therapy works best when your therapist genuinely knows you — your history, your patterns, what you’ve tried, and where the resistance shows up. That kind of depth takes time to build and can’t be replicated in a platform that rotates providers. As a PsyD-level psychologist, I bring the clinical training to do this work thoughtfully, and the continuity to see it through.

Why not a large platform?

Many burnout patterns are subtle and require a provider who knows you well enough to notice when you’re performing recovery the same way you were performing everything else. Provider continuity matters here more than speed of access.

Is online therapy effective for burnout?

Yes — and for many people experiencing burnout, online therapy fits better with an already-overwhelmed schedule. Eliminating a commute and being able to session from a comfortable, familiar space can make it easier to actually show up.

You’re not lazy.You’re running on empty.