Therapy for Burnout and Work Stress in Denver
Individual therapy helping professional women in Denver manage overwhelming work stress, career burnout, and the anxiety of balancing demanding careers with life.
Are You Exhausted From Trying to Keep It All Together?
Do you struggle with the constant mental load of managing a demanding career while keeping up with everything else in your life? Work deadlines intrude on personal time. Personal responsibilities weigh on your mind during work hours.
Maybe your to-do list never stops growing—presentations to finish, emails piling up, groceries to buy, appointments to schedule. What used to feel like balance now feels like barely keeping your head above water. Competence and control have given way to uncertainty.
A demanding job with increasing workload and rising expectations can leave you wondering if it's possible to keep up. But work is only part of the equation. There's also life to manage—whether that's a household, a relationship, kids, aging parents, or just the basic requirements of being an adult. The mental load never stops.
Work intrudes on dinner. Home responsibilities dominate meetings. Being fully present anywhere feels impossible because there's always something else that should be getting done.
From the outside, everything may look fine—solid performance reviews, a life that seems together. But inside, it can feel like barely functioning.
You may be experiencing constant anxiety, difficulty sleeping, trouble focusing, and small work mistakes that trigger spiraling thoughts about how long this pace is sustainable.
The loneliest part is often feeling misunderstood. When people comment "you're so busy!" as if it's a compliment, it can feel more like drowning than thriving—especially if it seems like everyone else is managing just fine
The Toll Burnout Can Take Over Time
Your work performance declines.
Common signs of work-related burnout include difficulty concentrating, increased mistakes, and decision fatigue. This can lead to an difficulty focusing in meetings, rereading emails multiple times, or making errors you never used to make. The anxiety about your competence can become self-fulfilling—worrying about failing makes it harder to perform at your best.
You start to feel it physically.
Common physical symptoms of burnout include persistent headaches, digestive issues, and sleep problems. This might show up as for you as lying awake at 3 AM with your mind racing through tomorrow's to-do list, or sleeping through multiple alarms because your body is so depleted. You might find yourself getting sick more frequently.
You lose yourself.
A common experience with chronic stress is the gradual loss of personal interests and identity outside of work. This might look like no longer having time for hobbies, or feeling like everything has become another responsibility. You may struggle to remember the last time you did something purely because you wanted to. Your entire identity may feel like it's become your job and obligations.
You become isolated.
Burnout often leads to social withdrawal and difficulty maintaining relationships. You cancel plans because you're too exhausted, or don’t have time for connections outside of work. Even when you're with people, you may find yourself mentally running through your to-do list rather than being present.
Self-doubt creeps in.
Professional burnout often brings increased self-doubt and questioning of competence. This can leave you wondering whether you're actually good at your job, or feeling like maybe you've just been lucky until now. You may find yourself dismissing your accomplishments and working twice as hard to compensate, which only increases the exhaustion.
You're not alone in feeling this way.
It's common to look around and feel like everyone else is managing fine—that other women handle demanding careers and busy lives without falling apart. This can lead to wondering what's wrong, or why you can't seem to keep up.
But here's the truth: burnout isn't a personal failure. It's a predictable response to overwhelming demands.
When it comes to self-doubt at work—the feeling that you're not actually as competent as people think—women experience this more than men.
In studies of over 40,000 people, women consistently score higher on measures of workplace self-doubt. Seventy-five percent of high-performing executive women have experienced these feelings at some point in their careers.
This isn't about personal failure. This is what happens when you're navigating professional demands that assume you have no other responsibilities, while also managing a personal life that assumes you have endless time and energy.
Who We Help
Some of our clients are single and building their careers while managing aging parents. Others are partnered with children, trying to excel at work while handling family responsibilities. Still others are in relationships without kids but feeling the weight of managing both a career and household. The common thread is the overwhelm that comes from combining professional demands with life responsibilities—and struggling to find a sustainable way forward.
If you're questioning whether you can keep up this pace, feeling isolated in your stress, or noticing your work performance or personal life suffering, you're exactly who we work with.
The Solution: Therapy That Actually Addresses What You're Going Through
You didn't get here overnight, and you won't fix it overnight. Things can better. You can stop feeling anxious about work. You can wake up without immediately feeling overwhelmed. You can feel competent again. You can find a sustainable way to manage your career and your personal life.
Immediate Support and Deeper Healing
Immediate support through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). First, we address what's happening right now: the anxiety about work performance, the panic before presentations, the inability to focus, the constant worry that you're failing, the mental loop that won't shut off. You'll learn specific tools to calm your nervous system, challenge the catastrophic thoughts, and manage the anxiety that's interfering with your work and your life.
These aren't generic stress management tips. They're practical strategies for when you're drowning in deadlines and your brain won't stop telling you you're not good enough.
Deeper work through psychodynamic therapy. Once we've addressed the immediate crisis, we explore why you ended up here. Often, the roots go back to early messages you absorbed about achievement, worth, and what it means to be successful. Maybe you learned that your value depends on performance. Maybe you absorbed the message that you need to work twice as hard to be taken seriously. Maybe you never learned that rest and boundaries are necessary, not optional.
Understanding where these patterns come from helps you stop repeating them. You start recognizing when you're operating from old beliefs about needing to prove yourself versus what's actually required of you now.
What’s possible with therapy at the Women’s Counseling Center of Denver
Our clients tell us change happens gradually. Here's what they experience:
💤 Better sleep - Your mind stops racing at 3 AM and your body trusts that rest is safe
🎯 Restored focus - You can concentrate in meetings and the mental fog lifts
😌 Less anxiety - You care about work but aren't constantly worried about failing
💪 Quieter self-doubt - You trust your abilities and recognize doubts as anxiety, not truth
⚖️ Healthy boundaries - You can leave work at reasonable hours and say no without guilt
🔄 Healthy balance - You work hard without destroying yourself with energy for life outside work
🤝 A feeling of support - You have tools for managing stress and someone who understands
What Makes the Women's Counseling Center of Denver Different
We've been serving the Denver community for over a decade. More than half of our clients come to us through word-of-mouth referrals. We've earned recognition as Best of the Mile High 2025 nominees, and our founder Kim Wagner has been featured on Channel 31 as a mental health expert. We're verified providers on Psychology Today and Good Therapy.
We're a small-by-choice, boutique practice. You're not a number cycling through different therapists, and you won't struggle to get appointments when you need them. You'll work with the same therapist consistently, building trust over time. No therapy mills, no corporate involvement, no rushed sessions. Just focused work on what you're actually dealing with.
We work with your schedule. We offer virtual therapy throughout Colorado, morning appointments, and evening slots. Virtual means no commute. Morning means before work. Evening means after. We get that you don't have extra time in your schedule.
We make it financially accessible. We're a self-pay practice, but we help you figure out your out-of-network insurance benefits—many people don't realize insurance will reimburse a significant portion. We also offer flexible fees from $60 to $185 per session so you can choose what works for your budget.
We specialize in helping professional women experiencing work-related burnout and stress. We understand the pressure of demanding careers, the performance anxiety, and the overwhelm of balancing it all.
Common Concerns
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We understand—when you're already overwhelmed, one more thing feels impossible. But the time you're losing to burnout is greater than therapy takes. How many hours do you spend lying awake at night, too anxious to focus, or too exhausted to enjoy your weekends?
Therapy is one hour a week. We schedule around your life—mornings before work starts, evenings after you're done, or virtual sessions that eliminate the commute entirely. That single hour every week to two weeks gives you the tools and support to reclaim all the hours you're currently losing to stress and exhaustion.
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If past therapy that didn't help, it usually means the therapist didn't specialize in your issues, the approach wasn't right, or it stayed too surface-level. We specialize in work-related burnout and stress for professional women. We combine practical strategies with deeper work on the patterns keeping you stuck. Some sessions focus on immediate tools—managing anxiety, setting boundaries. Others explore the beliefs driving your exhaustion.
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The cost of not addressing burnout adds up over time. Untreated burnout can lead to health issues, strained relationships, and declining work performance. Addressing it now is an investment in your long-term wellbeing and career.
We offer flexible fees from $60 to $185 and help you understand your insurance reimbursement options. Our clients find that having a therapist who truly understands work-related stress makes all the difference in their recovery.
Why Women in Denver Trust Us
Over the ten plus years since our practice was founded in Denver, we've built trust by genuinely helping our clients. They refer colleagues, friends and family members because therapy worked for them—they moved from constant anxiety about work to feeling competent again, from unsustainable overwhelm to finding a manageable rhythm, from isolation to having support.
Our therapists bring extensive experience in women's mental health and career-related stress. We've worked with hundreds of professional women experiencing exactly what you're going through. We understand the pressure of high-stakes careers, the anxiety about performance, the fear that you can't keep up, and the loneliness of managing it all.
Clients describe our practice as the place they finally felt understood. They didn't have to explain why work stress was affecting everything or justify why they couldn't just "manage their time better." We got it. And we helped them actually change what was happening.
Ready to make a change? It’s easy to get started.
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Schedule a free 20-minute consultation . We'll talk about what's happening, answer questions, and see if we're a good fit. If you have questions, just reach out via our contact form.
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Get matched with a therapist. Based on what you're dealing with and what you need, we'll connect you with one of our therapists.
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Start where you are with someone who understands what you're going through. We'll work on both what’s happening now and the deeper patterns keeping you stuck.
Our Denver Location
975 Lincoln Street, Suite 202
Denver, CO 80203
303-370-1399
kim@womenscounselingcenterdenver.com
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