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NLW Counseling Services, PLLC
  • Home
  • How We Can Support You
    • Therapy Services
    • Burnout & Work Stress
    • People-Pleasing Therapy
    • Trauma & Relationships
  • Meet the Team
    • Meet Nicole
  • Healthcare Professionals
    • Refer a Client
    • Join the Clinical Network
  • Client Testimonials
  • FAQs
  • Contact
  • Client Portal
  • Between Sessions Journal
  • Blog
  • Apply to Join Our Team!
    • IOP Program Lead
    • Staff Clinician
    • Clinical Director

Burnout and Workplace Stress Therapy

When being successful is costing you too much.


In-person in Irving and virtually throughout Texas.

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Quality First

You’ve worked hard to build your career. But lately, the pressure may feel impossible to leave at work.

Expert Care

You may be exhausted, anxious, irritable, unable to sleep, or constantly questioning yourself. Even when you’re technically “off,” your mind is still reviewing conversations, anticipating problems, and preparing for what comes next.

Real Results

NLW Counseling provides trauma-informed therapy for professionals navigating burnout, workplace anxiety, toxic work environments, leadership pressure, and difficult career transitions.

Does any of this feel familiar?

- You’re performing well, but privately running on empty.

- Work follows you home mentally and emotionally.

- You feel responsible for fixing problems no one else will address.

- You’re constantly anticipating criticism, conflict, or another impossible demand.

- You’ve begun questioning your judgment or abilities.

- You feel guilty resting because there’s always more to do.

- Your relationships, sleep, health, or sense of identity are being affected.

- Your relationships, sleep, health, or sense of identity are being affected.

- You know something needs to change, but you’re unsure what that change should be.

Burnout doesn’t always look like falling apart. Sometimes it looks like continuing to perform while becoming increasingly disconnected from yourself.

It may be more than ordinary work stress

Every job has difficult seasons. But chronic stress can begin affecting how you think, feel, relate to others, and function outside the workplace.


You may find yourself replaying interactions, dreading Monday before the weekend has even ended, struggling to make decisions, or feeling as though you must remain constantly alert.


And when you’ve built your identity around being capable, dependable, and successful, admitting that work is affecting you can bring up guilt, shame, or fear.


Therapy gives you somewhere to be honest about the cost of holding everything together.

Read: I Didn't know it was burnout - I just knew something was off

How we can support you

Therapy may help you:

- Understand the patterns keeping you in a cycle of overwork

- Recognize the difference between healthy pressure and harmful workplace dynamics

- Set boundaries without being consumed by guilt

- Manage anxiety, emotional exhaustion, and chronic stress

- Rebuild confidence after criticism, targeting, or workplace conflict

- Separate your identity from your productivity

- Evaluate career decisions with greater clarity

- Create a life that feels sustainable—not just impressive

The goal isn’t to tell you whether to stay, leave, confront the issue, or “just cope.” It’s to help you understand what’s happening, reconnect with yourself, and make intentional choices about what comes next.

Support from someone who understands high-pressure workplaces

Before becoming a therapist, Nicole Watson spent 14 years working in the securities industry and eventually served as a Director of Operations.


She understands demanding careers, leadership pressure, regulatory environments, impossible deadlines, and the unspoken expectation to keep performing regardless of the personal cost.


Nicole now brings that real-world experience into trauma-informed work with high-achieving professionals who are ready to address burnout, workplace anxiety, boundaries, and the patterns beneath chronic over-functioning.

Meet Nicole

Private-Pay Therapy

Individual therapy sessions with Nicole are $150 for 50 minutes. NLW Counseling is currently accepting a limited number of new private-pay clients.
NLW Counseling is currently accepting a limited number of new private-pay clients. Sessions are available in person at the Irving office and virtually for clients located throughout Texas.

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You don’t have to wait until you completely fall apart

You’re allowed to take your stress seriously before it becomes a crisis.


Therapy can give you space to slow down, understand what this experience has been doing to you, and decide how you want to move forward.

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