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Insights on Burnout, Nervous System Patterns, and Reclaiming Your Energy

Three Types of Hostile Work Environments

What the Law Recognizes Is Different from What Your Nervous System Feels  There are three types of hostile work environments, and only one of them gets taken seriously. I'm sure you know this feeling. Sunday evening arrives, and a weight increasingly starts to...

The Reason You’re Still Exhausted, Even After Setting Boundaries With Your Job

Boundaries can restructure your calendar, but they can’t downregulate a nervous system that’s been running on high alert for years. If you’ve tried the obvious fixes and you’re still drained, the problem isn’t discipline. It’s deeper than that.

The Psychological Pattern Quietly Eroding Your Work-Life Balance 

Many professionals respond to job insecurity by working harder. Over time, that response can reshape the boundary between work and home in ways they may not recognize right away.

How to Know If It’s Time for a Career Change

How to Know If It’s Time for a Career Change

When work becomes unbearable, most of us think “I need a career change.” But sometimes you need a different job in the same field. Sometimes the issue is internal strategies making everything harder. Here’s how to tell which problem to address first.

Christine Walker, LPC

Career Therapist and Practice Owner

One theme I frequently hear is how lonely it is at the top. You’re making complex decisions and solving multi-layered problems all day, every day. It’s exhausting.

People look to you to lead, manage, and hold it all together. But at the end of the day, when you go home at night, you’re still…a person. With the same doubts, fears, and need to be understood as everyone else.

I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor and career specialist. I work with people who are used to presenting a calm, confident version of themselves while often experiencing a more complicated inner reality.

I listen. Really listen. I’ll ask you questions that don’t usually get asked, and I’ll give you the honest feedback you crave, but most people are afraid to give.

I’m a mother of four, an artist, and someone who won’t be impressed by your title. But I will be endlessly curious about the person behind it.