Burnout coaching to recover and decide what comes next
Work 1:1 with a burnout coach who helps you change what is causing it: your workload, your boundaries, the conversation with your manager, or the move to something better. Matched to your field in two minutes.
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Christine Allen -
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Linda Leake
What a burnout coach does
A burnout coach works on the career side of burnout. Rest helps, but burnout comes from how work is set up, and 57% of burned-out people in our research name three or more causes. Your coach helps you find yours and change them.
That might mean resetting workload and priorities with your manager, getting control back over how you work, or deciding it is time to go and planning the move properly. You leave each session with specific next steps.
Burnout coaching includes
- Finding the real causes, not just the symptoms
- Scripts and rehearsal for the conversation with your manager
- A recovery plan that fits your job and your life
- A clear decision: stay and reshape, move, or change careers
- Confidential 1:1 sessions by video
The evidence for coaching and burnout
In a randomized trial, professional coaching cut burnout among physicians by 17 percentage points while it rose in the control group. (Dyrbye et al., JAMA Internal Medicine, 2019.)
Not sure how burned out you are? Take the free Burnout Check first.
Burnout coaching, step by step
Every engagement is built around what is driving your burnout.
1. Find the causes
Workload, control, recognition, support, fairness or values: your coach helps you see which ones are out of balance, starting with the free Burnout Check.
2. Change the job you have
Agree priorities, reset expectations and set boundaries, with scripts you rehearse before the real conversation.
3. Protect your recovery
A realistic plan for sleep, time off and detaching from work, so progress holds instead of slipping back.
4. Decide what comes next
If the job cannot be fixed, plan the move: a new team, a new employer, or a new career, without deciding while exhausted.
Meet your burnout coach
Your matches come from a vetted bench. Fewer than 1% of the coaches who apply to Realign are accepted.
Christine Allen 18 years of experience Made her own career change and specializes in rebuilding confidence and direction. 
Julie MacWilliams 15 years of experience Coaches people through deliberate pivots and rebounds, with a plan that fits real life. 
Linda Leake 20 years of experience Twenty years of coaching professionals toward purpose-driven work where they thrive. Questions about burnout coaching
What is a burnout coach?
A burnout coach is a professional coach who helps you deal with the career side of burnout: finding what is causing it, changing how your job works, having the hard conversations, and deciding whether to stay, move or change careers. A coach is not a therapist or doctor and does not treat medical conditions.
Is burnout coaching the same as therapy?
No. Therapy treats mental health conditions and is led by a licensed clinician. Burnout coaching is practical and career-focused: priorities, boundaries, conversations and decisions about your work. Many people benefit from both. If you feel persistently low or hopeless, see a doctor or mental health professional first.
How fast can I start?
The matching quiz takes about two minutes and you see your matched coach immediately. You book your first session from your coach's calendar, and most people find a time within the week.
What if my coach is not the right fit?
We rematch you at no additional cost, and your first session is fully refundable if you ask within 48 hours.
Does coaching help with burnout?
The strongest evidence comes from a randomized trial of physicians published in JAMA Internal Medicine in 2019: burnout fell in the group that received coaching and rose in the group that did not. Coaching works best alongside real changes to the causes.
More answers on the FAQ page.
Start recovering with a coach in your corner
2-minute quiz. See your match immediately. First session this week.