Career burnout coaching
You didn't lose your passion.
The work stopped fitting who you are.
You're still good at this. You still show up, you still ship. But somewhere along the way the work stopped feeding you - and now you're running on fumes, wondering if this is just what a career feels like after a while.
It isn't. But you can't think your way out of it from inside it.
What burnout actually looks like
You're still performing. That's part of what makes this so disorienting. You haven't stopped caring - if anything, the gap between what you're doing and what you wish you were doing is what exhausts you. You're not lazy. You're misaligned. And nobody in your organization is asking the questions that would help you figure that out.
The work that used to energize you now just takes from you.
I've seen this pattern more times than I can count - talented professionals a decade into their career, delivering strong work, completely hollowed out.
The question they're asking themselves isn't "how do I get better at this?" It's "why am I even doing this?" That's not a burnout question. That's a values question. And it's actually the more useful one to be sitting with.
Most coaching skips past it. We don't.
- Chris, Your Career Coach
Who this is for
You don't need to see yourself in all of these. One is enough.
- The work stopped meaning something You're competent, even respected - but you dread Monday in a way you didn't five years ago.
- You've tried the fixes New job, new team, new project. The feeling followed you there.
- You can't articulate what you actually want When someone asks what would make things better, you genuinely don't know.
- You're questioning everything Not just the job - the whole direction. Whether design is even the thing anymore.
- You're scared to slow down Because if you stop performing, you're not sure what's left.
If even one of these landed - that's worth a conversation.
How we work together
Two kinds of work.
The Inner Work
This is coaching
The question nobody in your organization is asking you: what actually matters to you? We'll do values work, surface the saboteur voices that have been keeping you in a loop, and reconnect you to the part of yourself that knows what it needs.
The Outer Work
This is strategy
Once you know what you're moving toward, we rebuild how you show up. What role you're actually after. How your story reads from the outside. What to do next - whether that's a new role, a new direction, or a fundamentally different relationship with the work you're already doing.
What 6 sessions look like
Sessions 1 & 2
Get Clear
What do you actually want - not what you think you should want?
- Values work: what has been feeding you, what has been draining you
- Honest audit of the patterns that led here
- Define what you're actually moving toward, not just away from
Sessions 3 & 4
Go Deeper
Surface what's been keeping you stuck in the loop.
- Identify the saboteur voices running the show
- Untangle your identity from a role or company that no longer fits
- Connect to your Inner Leader - the part that already knows what it needs
Sessions 5 & 6
Navigate What's Next
Turn clarity into direction - and direction into action.
- High-stakes decisions with tools to hear your own signal
- Positioning that reflects who you're becoming, not who you've been
- Leave with a clear direction and the confidence to move on it
This is what changes
When you stop trying to optimize your way out of misalignment and start doing the work to understand what you actually need, something shifts. The exhaustion doesn't disappear overnight - but the directionlessness does. You stop running from something and start moving toward something real.
That's the work. That's what this is.
Ready to figure out what's
actually going on?
30 minutes. No pitch. Just a real conversation about where you are and whether this is the right fit.
Book a free discovery call →Or email me directly if that feels easier.