Trauma and stress
Work-related stress
Burnout, sustained over-working, and the patterns that develop in banks and law firms in the City of London.
How I see this presentation
I have spent fifteen years in independent practice in the City of London, working primarily with people from banks and law firms. The pattern of work-related stress I see most often is not dramatic burnout but the quieter version: sustained over-working that has become the default, sleep that has shortened, concentration that has started to fragment, and a growing awareness that the approach that worked for years is no longer holding. By the time people contact me, they have usually been managing it privately for some time.
How I tend to work with it
The lead modality is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. The early work is on the maintaining patterns: the cognitive style that drives the over-working, the behavioural cycles around sleep and recovery, and the relationship to performance. I draw on REBT and ACT where the work is about the underlying evaluations and values, and on coaching where the goals are practical and clear: a return to work, a difficult conversation, or managing a specific professional challenge.
What a course might look like
Sessions are 50 minutes, online, typically weekly. Work-related stress often responds to a focused, time-limited course of CBT, with a clear formulation in the first one or two sessions and progress reviewed every four to six sessions. The framework varies per person and is agreed openly. Where the picture includes a clinical anxiety or depressive presentation, the work is adjusted accordingly.
Next step
If what you have read here fits what you are experiencing, please get in touch. I respond to all enquiries personally, typically within one working day. An initial call carries no commitment.
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