Condition
Stress & Burnout
The slow build-up of pressure from work, family, or simply doing too much for too long.
Rest doesn't seem to fix it anymore. You're short-tempered with people you'd normally have patience for, and the headaches or tight shoulders have become background noise you've stopped mentioning. Stress isn't always dramatic — often it's cumulative, built from months of over-functioning until the body and mind start signalling that something has to change. At Chaitanya Raj in Vashi & Belapur, Navi Mumbai, we work with chronic stress and burnout in its many forms, led by Lt. Col. Rajesh Sharma (Retd), with over 25 years of experience in hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural approaches.
Common signs
How it works
Stress and burnout counselling starts with mapping where the pressure is actually coming from — work, home, or a combination that's been building for longer than you realised. Your first session is a conversation about what's unsustainable right now, and what a realistic path back to capacity looks like. From there, sessions focus on practical boundary-setting, structured relaxation, and where useful, mindfulness-based technique to rebuild a pace you can actually sustain.
Workplace Stress Counselling
Deadlines, workload, and a culture of constant availability can push stress from occasional to chronic without anyone quite noticing the shift. This track looks at what's driving the pressure at work specifically, and builds boundaries and coping strategies that hold up in a demanding job, not just in theory.
Burnout Recovery
Burnout is what happens when stress goes on long enough that even rest stops helping — exhaustion, cynicism, and a sense of reduced capacity that doesn't lift with a weekend off. Recovery work focuses on rebuilding energy gradually, understanding what led to the depletion, and making changes that prevent it from recurring.
Caregiver & Parental Burnout
Caring for others — children, ageing parents, a family member managing illness — carries a specific kind of exhaustion that's easy to minimise because it doesn't look like 'work' from the outside. This track makes space for that fatigue directly, without guilt, and builds sustainable ways to keep giving without running yourself empty.
Our approach
Our approach combines practical boundary-setting, structured relaxation training, and mindfulness-based technique, shaped around what's actually driving your stress rather than a generic 'relax more' plan.
Frequently asked questions
Ordinary stress usually eases once the specific cause resolves. Burnout is more chronic — exhaustion, reduced capacity, and a sense of detachment that doesn't lift with rest alone, often because the underlying pressure has been present for months.
Many clients notice a shift in capacity within 6 to 10 sessions, with the exact pace depending on how long the pattern has been building. A realistic estimate is shared after the first session.
Yes, for most clients. Sessions are built around your actual schedule and responsibilities, and focus on sustainable changes you can make while continuing to work, rather than requiring a full stop.
Yes, every session is completely confidential, held between you and your therapist.