ELIZABETH GUINEA, LMHC (813) 235-5461

Therapy for Stress and Burnout

You Have Everything You Wanted. So Why the Emptiness?

Your mind won’t stop racing.

You get home and you’re still at work in your head.

Relaxing comes with a side of guilt, like rest is something you have to earn first.

Saying no feels selfish, so you say yes and quietly resent it.

And underneath all of it, you’re running on empty.

You keep wondering why having everything you worked for still feels this hollow.

Why More Effort Won’t Move Your Burnout

You’ve tried working harder. You’ve optimized every hour of your calendar.

None of it reached the thing actually driving the exhaustion.

Underneath the stress sits a set of rules you never chose on purpose.

People-pleasing. Over-functioning. The quiet belief that slowing down means falling behind.

That belief system runs the show, mostly without your say-so.

Once you see your pattern, you can’t unsee it.

Your Change Follows a Structure You Can Track

Real change comes from understanding why your patterns exist, what keeps them running, and how to build something different.

Over more than 20 years, across the United States and internationally, I’ve refined that into a structured process you can actually follow.

We work in four phases.

Trust. We build a foundation where the real story can come out.

Motivation. We find the reason to change that holds up when your week gets hard.

Restructuring. We rework the patterns keeping you drained.

Maintenance. You come in less often, because you’ve got it.

Along the way, I draw on CBT to map how your thoughts, feelings, and actions feed each other.

ACT helps you notice a hard thought without obeying it.

Solution-focused hypnotherapy gives you a focused, intentional way to relax so new patterns take hold.

Between sessions, you get homework that keeps the work moving when you’re not in my office.

You’ll also get my 12-page e-workbook, free, built to help the changes stick.

Every week we run a short assessment.

Every month we review your goals.

Your progress becomes something you can measure, week over week.

Wake Up With Energy, Leave Work at Work

You wake up with energy instead of dread.

You move through your day focused.

When you close the laptop, work stays closed.

You’ve got emotional room for your friends and family again.

You can sit in silence and simply enjoy the moment.

Most people come to me with a tangled plate of spaghetti and leave with it sorted into something they can manage on their own.

You’ll leave with tools you can use right away and a plan that’s yours.

Start With One Conversation

The life you’re picturing starts with one conversation.

Schedule a free consultation.

We’ll talk through what’s draining you and how the work would look for you.

You’ll walk away with a clearer sense of your next step, whether or not we decide to work together.

Let’s start that conversation today.

You’re Closer to Change Than It Feels

You’ve been intelligent about this for a long time. Understanding was never the missing piece. A plan is.

Let’s build yours. In a free consultation, we’ll talk through what keeps circling back on you and map out a way forward.