Therapy for Burnout in South Delhi

Not in the clinical sense. The World Health Organization classifies burnout in ICD-11 as an occupational phenomenon — something arising from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed — and explicitly not as a medical condition. That distinction matters practically: nobody can hand you a burnout diagnosis, and any provider offering to treat burnout as a disease is overstating things. What therapy does is work on the exhaustion, the loss of meaning at work, the boundaries that have collapsed, and anything underneath it. It also looks out for signs that what you are calling burnout is in fact depression or an anxiety disorder, which are diagnosable and are treated differently — and where that seems likely, we bring in a clinical psychologist or the psychiatrist on our team.

The rough distinction is context. Burnout is tied to a role or a workload — take the person on a genuine two-week break with no email and something usually lifts, and interest returns in the parts of life that are not work. Depression tends to travel with you: the flatness is there on holiday, on a Sunday, with people you like, and it often comes with hopelessness about yourself rather than about the job. The two overlap a great deal and can coexist, so this is not something to sort out alone before booking. It is one of the first things a session explores.

A 50-minute session with Palak Sharma, a counselling psychologist, is ₹1,400 online and ₹1,800 at the Green Park clinic. With Charul Rawat, also a counselling psychologist, it is ₹1,200 online and ₹1,500 at the clinic. There is no package and no minimum number of sessions, and you can pay by cash or UPI at the clinic.

Start with Palak if you are a working adult who has been running on empty for months, or if it has reached your sleep and your body as well as your work — she works with CBT, Internal Family Systems and body-based practices. Start with Charul if this is academic or early-career pressure, a first job that has turned out to be relentless, or exam and performance stress. If you suspect there is depression or an anxiety disorder alongside it, tell us when you message and we will point you to one of our clinical psychologists instead. If you are unsure, message us and we will suggest one.

Usually not, and it is worth being careful about making that decision while depleted, because exhaustion narrows options and makes leaving feel like the only one. Plenty of people recover in the same job once workload, boundaries, sleep and the meaning of the work have been addressed. Some do conclude the role or the organisation is the problem — but that is a clearer decision made from a steadier place, and therapy is not there to talk you into staying either.

It varies with how long it has been building and how much of the cause is still in place. Many people feel a difference within eight to twelve weekly sessions; where the workload itself does not change at all, progress is slower because therapy is working against a live cause. Nobody here will give you a guaranteed timeline.

Three strands, usually in this order. Recovering basic capacity first — sleep, rest that is genuinely restorative, and the small things that stopped. Then the patterns that got you here: overcommitting, difficulty saying no, tying self-worth to output, and the beliefs underneath those. Then the situation itself — what can be renegotiated at work, what boundary needs to hold, and what you want next. Palak works with CBT, Internal Family Systems and body-based practices; Charul with solution-focused and person-centred work.

It can help you think clearly about it, decide what you want to do, and hold a position without either exploding or collapsing. It cannot change your manager, and it is not a substitute for HR, a lawyer, or leaving where that is warranted. Where something crosses into harassment or an unlawful situation, we will say so and suggest you get advice from someone qualified to give it.

Yes. Long preparation cycles for competitive exams, drop years, and the pattern of studying while never feeling it is enough produce the same exhaustion and cynicism that workplace burnout does. Charul works mainly with students and people early in their careers.

For burnout specifically, online is often the practical choice — the last thing an exhausted person needs is another commute, and evening slots fit around work without needing to explain an absence. Sessions at the Green Park clinic suit people who find that physically leaving work behind helps. You can move between the two.