Starting therapy can feel intimidating and difficult to navigate what is best for you. A lot of therapists offer free consultations as a way to get to you know, answer any questions you have, discuss payment, scheduling, and how they can work with you. Your first consultation is a safe, low-pressure way to see if you feel heard and understood. In this first interaction, there is no expectation to know everything, it is perfectly fine to not know what your goals are at this time.

Mainstream advice will tell you to just "buy a better planner," but we have to stop treating your burnout as a time-management issue and recognize it as a nervous system overload. Here are a few physical grounding tools and exact scripts you can use to firmly delegate tasks without inheriting the guilt.