Therapy for burnout and overwhelm
Most autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD adults think burnout means they're lazy, unmotivated, or failing at things everyone else seems to handle easily. ND burnout therapy reframes this completely. Burnout is not a personal or moral failureit’s a neurobiological response to years of surviving environments designed for brains that don’t work like yours.
Therapy helps you understand why your exhaustion is so deep, why even small tasks feel overwhelming, and why you can’t just “bounce back” the way others expect.
What ND Burnout Therapy Helps You Understand:
The difference between burnout, shutdown, and overwhelm.
Many ND adults move between chronic overwhelm, sensory overload, and emotional shutdown without knowing these are predictable nervous-system patterns. Therapy helps you name them, understand them, and work with them instead of fighting your own body.
Why autistic and ADHD burnout hits harder and lasts longer
ND burnout isn’t solved by a weekend off. It’s the cumulative strain of masking, overstimulation, unmet sensory needs, executive function demands, and emotional labor. Your system doesn’t need motivation — it needs healing.
How years of masking lead to chronic depletion
Masking is exhausting. When your whole life has required performance, tolerance and pretending, it’s no wonder your system eventually collapses. Therapy helps you see this with compassion, not shame.