Hope Therapy and Counselling Services
Online and in-person counselling across the UK for individuals and couples, including workplace counselling
The first thing worth saying about ADHD burnout recovery is that pushing harder will not work. The effort that drives someone into burnout cannot be the thing that drives them out of it. Recovery begins when the demands are reduced, … Read more
There is a particular kind of exhausted that people with ADHD describe, not the tiredness that follows a hard week, but something that has weight to it, something that has been building for longer than they realised and does not … Read more
Neurodivergent burnout does not always arrive with a dramatic event. More often it comes quietly, a growing difficulty with things that used to be manageable, a withdrawal from things that used to feel possible, an exhaustion that sleep does not … Read more
Emotional exhaustion is not the same as being tired. It is a deeper form of depletion, one that affects how a person thinks, feels, and functions, and that does not respond to the usual remedies of an early night or … Read more
When a partner withdraws from intimacy — from the physical closeness, the affection, the emotional availability that a close relationship involves — it can be one of the most confusing and painful experiences in a relationship. The withdrawal is real … Read more
EMDR — Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing — is one of the most effective and most evidence-based therapies for trauma, and one that is still widely misunderstood. The name can make it sound more technical, or more unusual, than it … Read more
Many people reach adulthood without a formal autism diagnosis — not because autism was absent, but because it was not identified, or because their particular presentation did not trigger assessment at the time. For autistic adults who received a late … Read more
Overcoming imposter syndrome is not a matter of trying harder to believe in yourself. Most people who have lived with it for any length of time have already tried that, and found that the effort of convincing themselves they belong … Read more
Recovery from autistic burnout is not a straight line, and it does not happen by pushing harder. That much is worth saying at the start. Autistic burnout recovery begins when the demands that caused the burnout are reduced, when genuine … Read more
Imposter syndrome at work is the persistent, private belief that your professional success is undeserved, that you got where you are through luck, timing, or convincing people of something that is not quite true. The work is real. The achievements … Read more