Online worldwide · Buckinghamshire
Executive Burnout
Recovery Coaching
High achievers rarely break down.
They adapt. They recalibrate.
Burnout to resilience confidential one-to-one coaching for leaders who have been holding everything together for a long time, and are starting to feel the cost of it.
You do not have to step away from your career to recover. You need space to think clearly, an honest look at the patterns underneath, and a way of working that holds under real pressure.
How I work
Hi, I’m Lovena
I work with executives and senior professionals who are highly capable, highly relied upon, and quietly running close to empty.
I burned out myself, in a senior role, while everyone around me assumed I was coping beautifully. I know how long you can keep delivering after the enjoyment has gone, and how convincingly you can tell yourself it is just a busy patch.
So I do not start by asking you to do more. We start by taking things off your plate mentally, so you can think clearly again and from there we look honestly at what made burnout likely in the first place.
A structured approach, not a motivational one
Every piece of work follows the same three movements. They are deliberately in this order — insight is no use while you are too depleted to act on it.
Reduce the cognitive load
First we create breathing space. We unpick what you are carrying, separate what is genuinely yours from what you have absorbed, and bring the noise down far enough for you to think.
Address the patterns underneath
Burnout is rarely only about workload. We look at the habits that made it likely over-functioning, difficulty delegating, saying yes too quickly, tying your worth to output.
Build sustainable ways of working
Then we rebuild. Boundaries that survive a bad week, decisions made from clarity rather than depletion, and a way of leading that does not quietly cost you your health.
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu
Who this is for
Built for people who are relied upon
This is not general life coaching. It is designed for senior, high-accountability roles where the pressure is constant, visible, and rarely something you can admit to struggling with.
Executives & senior leaders
You carry organisational weight and have very little room to look uncertain in public. The role rewards the exact behaviour that is wearing you down.
Lawyers & partners
Billable pressure, perfectionism as a professional standard, and client demand that never properly stops including on the weekends you had promised yourself.
Founders & business owners
The business depends on you being available. Switching off feels like risk, so you never quite do it, and the recovery keeps getting deferred.
High-accountability roles
Medicine, finance, consulting, the public sector work where errors carry real consequences, so vigilance never fully switches off.
You do not need to be in crisis to start. Most people I work with are still performing well. That is exactly the point it is far easier to recalibrate while you still have something in reserve than to rebuild after a collapse.
Ways we can work together
Pick the path that fits where you are
Three ways in, depending on how much ground you need to cover and how quickly. Every one of them starts with the same free 20 minute call, so you can decide with a real sense of how we would work together.
Feel like yourself again, and keep the success you’ve built
For when you’re tired in a way sleep doesn’t fix, and you’re still the one everyone relies on. Together we work out what’s behind it and build a way of working that you can keep up. It’s not about becoming less ambitious.
Clear the mental load
Name what’s really going on, so the 3am thoughts and constant tiredness start to make sense.
Understand what’s underneath
Look at the beliefs and habits that keep you pushing, and loosen their hold.
Build a way of working that lasts
Practise new ways of working, so success stops costing you your health and your relationships.
Built on my RECLAIM framework. See the seven steps
What’s included
- Fortnightly or weekly one to one sessions, at a pace that fits your diary
- Email support between sessions
- Online worldwide, or in person in Buckinghamshire
“Today I think of myself as graceful, and confident, and I’m learning day by day to love and accept who I am. The Reclaim programme changed my life.”
Faye R, Business Consultant
Everyone is different, and I can’t promise a particular result.
Make the decision that’s been weighing on you
For when one decision, such as a role, a boundary or a change of direction, is taking up more headspace than it should and you’d like to think it through with someone.
What’s included
- One uninterrupted two hour session
- Separating the real constraints from the assumed ones
- Aim to leave with a decision and your next three steps
- A written summary afterwards
Stay well once the work is done
For after the RECLAIM Programme, when life gets busy again and you’d like a steady space to notice early signs, adjust and keep what you’ve built.
What’s included
- One two hour session a month
- Time to reflect, recalibrate and plan the month ahead
- Offered by invitation to existing clients
Finishing the programme? Ask me about this in your final session.
Common questions
The things people ask first
Is this therapy?
No. Coaching is forward-focused and practical — we work on what you are dealing with now and how you want to operate going forward. Therapy looks at diagnosis and treatment, usually with more attention to the past.
The two work well alongside each other, and plenty of my clients do both. If what you describe on our call needs clinical support, I will tell you plainly rather than take you on.
Do I need to step away from work to recover?
Almost never. The great majority of my clients recover while still in post, which is rather the point — a sabbatical that returns you to exactly the same patterns tends to buy a few months, not a change.
If you are already signed off, coaching can run alongside that and help make the return a genuine reset rather than a repeat.
How long does it take?
Most people notice the load lifting within the first two or three sessions, because that is what we work on first. Changing the patterns underneath takes longer — which is why the main programme runs for twelve weeks.
If you have one pressing decision rather than a broad pattern, the two-hour clarity session is often all you need.
Evidence informed
Burnout is an occupational problem, not a character flaw
The World Health Organization classifies burnout as an occupational phenomenon, a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is not listed as a medical condition, and it is not a personal failing.
That distinction matters, because it changes what actually helps. If the cause sits in how the work is structured and how you respond to it, then that is where the work belongs. The WHO describes three dimensions:
Exhaustion
Depleted energy that rest alone no longer restores. The weekend stops making a difference.
Mental distance
Growing cynicism or detachment from work you once cared about, and from the people in it.
Reduced efficacy
The sense of being less effective, often while still delivering to a standard nobody else questions.
Source: World Health Organization, ICD 11. Burnout is included as an occupational phenomenon (QD85), not as a medical condition. Coaching is not medical treatment or psychological therapy; if clinical support is what you need, I will say so and help you find it.
“Recognise The Signs. Let’s Choose Your Next Steps.”Lovena
Begin here
A quiet conversation, and no obligation
Most people put this off for months longer than they needed to, usually because they are waiting to feel bad enough to justify it. You do not need to be at that point.
Book a free 20-minute call
Online, at a time that works around your diary. Nothing to prepare.
We work out what you actually need
You describe what is going on. I ask questions, and tell you honestly whether I am the right person.
You decide in your own time
If we go ahead, we agree the path and the fee before anything starts. If not, that is a perfectly good outcome too.