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Burnout as a Crisis of the Self: A Jungian Somatics™ Perspective for Therapists and Practitioners
2-Hour Live Webinar for Depth-Oriented Practitioners
Thursday, March 19 | 12:00 -2 PM EDT
A recording will be available if you can’t attend live.
7 days prior to the webinar, you will receive a Zoom meeting link.
Sliding scale is not available for this offering.
You love your work.
You believe in it.
You care deeply for your clients.
You’re good at what you do.
And yet, you’re tired.
Not simply overworked but drained in a way that doesn’t resolve with rest.
For many therapists and healing practitioners, burnout isn’t primarily about workload, documentation, compassion fatigue or even vicarious trauma. The exhaustion runs deeper: into the body, psyche, and the meaning of the work itself.
Over time, the role of therapist or practitioner can quietly shift from something we do into something we are.
The steady one.
The reliable one.
The container, for our clients and everyone else in our lives.
When this happens, the Self or soul, the deeper organizing intelligence of the psyche, can lose its guiding role. In its place, a powerful complex begins to organize the personality.
Often, this is the Saviour complex.
This 2-hour webinar explores therapist burnout through a Jungian Somatics™ lens, examining how over-identification with the healer role leads to chronic over-responsibility, difficulty accepting therapeutic limits, and subtle forms of archetypal inflation.
When we feel accountable for outcomes beyond our control, the nervous system carries the strain.
From this perspective, burnout isn’t failure. It can be corrective, an unconscious signal that the psyche is pushing back against an identity that has become too narrow, burdened, or quietly possessed.
Burnout, here, is understood as a crisis of the Self, and an invitation to restore soul as the guide.
What We Will Explore
The mythic and archetypal roots of the Saviour in the healing professions
Over-responsibility and difficulty tolerating therapeutic limits
The inflation hidden inside moral devotion and “being the good one”
Loss of vitality through over-identification with the therapist role
Projection, countertransference, and the unlived Self
How differentiation from the Saviour restores movement, vitality, and psychological freedom
This offering is for therapists and practitioners who sense that their exhaustion holds psychological meaning, and who are ready to step out of unconscious rescue and into a more embodied, human, and soul-led relationship with their work.
Why this Matters Now
Burnout is being discussed everywhere but rarely at the level of identity.
Many practitioners are being encouraged to work harder at self-care, tighten boundaries, or simply reduce their caseloads. While these changes can help, they often don’t touch the deeper issue.
What’s being strained is not just the nervous system, but the Self–ego relationship, that is, our relationship to our inner authority, the soul.
When the therapist role becomes fused with identity, soul recedes. Meaning thins. Vitality leaks away. And the work, once alive, begins to feel heavy.
This moment calls for more than better coping strategies.
It calls for deeper soul truths about why we are doing what we are doing and how we need to feed our souls.
This webinar offers a depth-oriented frame for understanding burnout not as personal failure, but as a signal of transformation, an invitation to reorient the work around the Self rather than the complex.
2-Hour Live Webinar for Depth-Oriented Practitioners
Thursday, March 19 | 12:00 -2 PM EDT
A recording will be available if you can’t attend live.
7 days prior to the webinar, you will receive a Zoom meeting link.
Sliding scale is not available for this offering.
You love your work.
You believe in it.
You care deeply for your clients.
You’re good at what you do.
And yet, you’re tired.
Not simply overworked but drained in a way that doesn’t resolve with rest.
For many therapists and healing practitioners, burnout isn’t primarily about workload, documentation, compassion fatigue or even vicarious trauma. The exhaustion runs deeper: into the body, psyche, and the meaning of the work itself.
Over time, the role of therapist or practitioner can quietly shift from something we do into something we are.
The steady one.
The reliable one.
The container, for our clients and everyone else in our lives.
When this happens, the Self or soul, the deeper organizing intelligence of the psyche, can lose its guiding role. In its place, a powerful complex begins to organize the personality.
Often, this is the Saviour complex.
This 2-hour webinar explores therapist burnout through a Jungian Somatics™ lens, examining how over-identification with the healer role leads to chronic over-responsibility, difficulty accepting therapeutic limits, and subtle forms of archetypal inflation.
When we feel accountable for outcomes beyond our control, the nervous system carries the strain.
From this perspective, burnout isn’t failure. It can be corrective, an unconscious signal that the psyche is pushing back against an identity that has become too narrow, burdened, or quietly possessed.
Burnout, here, is understood as a crisis of the Self, and an invitation to restore soul as the guide.
What We Will Explore
The mythic and archetypal roots of the Saviour in the healing professions
Over-responsibility and difficulty tolerating therapeutic limits
The inflation hidden inside moral devotion and “being the good one”
Loss of vitality through over-identification with the therapist role
Projection, countertransference, and the unlived Self
How differentiation from the Saviour restores movement, vitality, and psychological freedom
This offering is for therapists and practitioners who sense that their exhaustion holds psychological meaning, and who are ready to step out of unconscious rescue and into a more embodied, human, and soul-led relationship with their work.
Why this Matters Now
Burnout is being discussed everywhere but rarely at the level of identity.
Many practitioners are being encouraged to work harder at self-care, tighten boundaries, or simply reduce their caseloads. While these changes can help, they often don’t touch the deeper issue.
What’s being strained is not just the nervous system, but the Self–ego relationship, that is, our relationship to our inner authority, the soul.
When the therapist role becomes fused with identity, soul recedes. Meaning thins. Vitality leaks away. And the work, once alive, begins to feel heavy.
This moment calls for more than better coping strategies.
It calls for deeper soul truths about why we are doing what we are doing and how we need to feed our souls.
This webinar offers a depth-oriented frame for understanding burnout not as personal failure, but as a signal of transformation, an invitation to reorient the work around the Self rather than the complex.