Francis Norton

If work leaves you permanently exhausted, it all seems pointless, and you can't make things happen the way you used to, you may need to find the path out of burnout.

Burnout is a journey from persistent stress to anxiety and ultimately depression. Burnout can take many shapes - I know from my own life the slow drift towards every workday being grey, the loss of meaning and motivation, the decreasing ability to imagine life being any other way.

But I have also experienced the shock of realising in counselling that things didn't have to be this way, and the technicolor vibrancy of finding new purpose and meaning in my own life.

As a counsellor, I help people to step off this path and rediscover the spontaneity and excitement of engaging with their now and exploring their future. This change, pushing back against the internal and external forces that led to burnout in the first place, may be harder than it sounds - this is why I offer counselling skills for the burnout recovery path.

I specialise in burnout, how it effects your job, your self and your relationships, and how to step out of it. I run online workshops for counsellors on working with client burnout, I have written on burnout recovery case studies for my professional journal, and was instrumental in getting the three leading online counselling directories to include burnout as a client search term and a counsellor specialism.

The single most important aspect of therapy is the client/counsellor relationship. This is why you're welcome to a free 20 minute phone or Zoom conversation to check that we're a good fit before either of us makes any commitments.

Call or text me on 0749 573 5189 to arrange a discussion, or book yourself a slot at https://calendly.com/francis-norton/preliminarychat

While my integrative approach draws on attachment theory, person-centred counselling and cognitive approaches, I also bring a specifically burnout perspective - for example, I will listen out for emotional exhaustion triggered by overwhelming demands. 

For a client experiencing the hollow hell of burnout to recognise it - via Maslach's burnout inventory, Freudenberger's 12 stages of burnout or Farber's 3 sub-types of burnout - as a natural response to external stresses can be immensely liberating, a real first step to recovery and regrowth.

Equally, you may come to me with burnout, but - after stabilising that situation - end up working on your patterns of attachment or sources of validation, to help you grow past the the burnout path.

I offer both open-ended counselling, where I like to work with a 6 week cadence of review and refocus, and Single Session Counselling (SSC, also known as Single Session Therapy or SST) where we can book in a single session to help you progress on one selected issue.

I will bring the whole of my life experience and counselling skillset to resolving your challenges, whatever shape they may take.

In the first session we will assess what burnout dynamics you are experiencing in your business and personal relationships, and how these are affecting your energy, purpose and effectiveness.

We will then look at your strengths, values and goals, and agree an initial focus for our first six sessions.

By the end of this first session, you should be feeling at least a sense of what change might look and feel like.

Most of my clients have returned to full energy and drive by the end of a first six session cycle, and most of the rest by the end of the second. And as far as I know, all my clients have avoided any recurrence of burnout.

If work leaves you permanently exhausted, it all seems pointless, and you can't make things happen the way you used to, you may need to find the path out of burnout.

Burnout is a journey from persistent stress to anxiety and ultimately depression. Burnout can take many shapes - I know from my own life the slow drift towards every workday being grey, the loss of meaning and motivation, the decreasing ability to imagine life being any other way.

But I have also experienced the shock of realising in counselling that things didn't have to be this way, and the technicolor vibrancy of finding new purpose and meaning in my own life.

As a counsellor, I help people to step off this path and rediscover the spontaneity and excitement of engaging with their now and exploring their future. This change, pushing back against the internal and external forces that led to burnout in the first place, may be harder than it sounds - this is why I offer counselling skills for the burnout recovery path.

I specialise in burnout, how it effects your job, your self and your relationships, and how to step out of it. I run online workshops for counsellors on working with client burnout, I have written on burnout recovery case studies for my professional journal, and was instrumental in getting the three leading online counselling directories to include burnout as a client search term and a counsellor specialism.

The single most important aspect of therapy is the client/counsellor relationship. This is why you're welcome to a free 20 minute phone or Zoom conversation to check that we're a good fit before either of us makes any commitments.

Call or text me on 0749 573 5189 to arrange a discussion, or book yourself a slot at https://calendly.com/francis-norton/preliminarychat

While my integrative approach draws on attachment theory, person-centred counselling and cognitive approaches, I also bring a specifically burnout perspective - for example, I will listen out for emotional exhaustion triggered by overwhelming demands.

For a client experiencing the hollow hell of burnout to recognise it - via Maslach's burnout inventory, Freudenberger's 12 stages of burnout or Farber's 3 sub-types of burnout - as a natural response to external stresses can be immensely liberating, a real first step to recovery and regrowth.

Equally, you may come to me with burnout, but - after stabilising that situation - end up working on your patterns of attachment or sources of validation in order to help you avoid returning to burnout patterns of working like a moth to the candle

I offer both open-ended counselling, where I like to work with a 6 week cadence of review and refocus, and Single Session Counselling (SSC, also known as Single Session Therapy or SST) where we can book in a single session to help you progress on one selected issue.

I will bring the whole of my life experience and counselling skillset to resolving your challenges, whatever shape they may take.

In the first session we will assess what burnout dynamics you are experiencing in your business and personal relationships, and how these are affecting your energy, purpose and effectiveness.

We will then look at your strengths and values, and agree an initial focus for our first six sessions. 

By the end of this first session, you should be feeling at least a sense of what change might look and feel like.

Most of my clients are back to working at full function within a single six week review cycle, and most of the remainder within the second. As far as I know, all  of them have been immunised against any recurrence of burnout.