Areas I help with

Stress, burnout and adjustment — evidence-based therapy in Parramatta and online.

Stress, burnout, life transitions and adjustment difficulties that need focused work. Sometimes the problem is real life, and the work is figuring out what to do about it. WorkCover-suitable where work stress has tipped into a claimable psychological injury.

Evidence-based approach Parramatta + telehealth Medicare rebates available

What it looks like

How stress, adjustment & burnout tends to show up.

Chronic work stress — tired all the time, emotionally flat, cynical about the work you used to care about.

A major life change (job, relationship, health, loss, move) that you haven’t been able to integrate.

Sleep, appetite or focus disrupted — but not to clinical depression level.

Feeling like you’re just getting through each day, with nothing left for anything else.

Loss of identity or direction — unclear what you want or what matters anymore.

Why it persists

What tends to keep it going.

Patterns are often maintained by the very things we do to cope with them. Therapy targets these directly.

Structural overload

Sometimes the problem genuinely is too much, and therapy’s job is to help you see that and act — not pretend it’s all about mindset.

Running on depletion

Burnout feeds off depletion: poor sleep, no downtime, no restoration. Recovery requires protecting the basics first.

Identity fusion with role

When work = self, any threat to performance becomes a threat to identity. A common driver of high-functioning burnout.

Avoiding the big decision

Often an adjustment issue is really a stuck decision — career, relationship, location — that’s easier not to make until it becomes a crisis.

How therapy helps

Practical, values-based work — rebuilding the fundamentals, then addressing what the situation calls for.

Protect the foundations

Sleep, exercise, time off, nutrition, connection. Non-negotiables in burnout recovery — and often the biggest gains come from reclaiming these.

Separate mindset from structure

Honest work on what’s genuinely a structural problem (workload, environment, relationship) vs. what’s a pattern of how you relate to it.

Clarify values and direction

Often the useful work is figuring out what you actually want — which makes the path forward obvious.

Act on what needs to change

Whether that’s a conversation, a boundary, a career shift, or a reframe — the work becomes action, not endless processing.

Dylan Fuller, Clinical Psychologist Registrar

Why work with me

Why I’m a fit for stress, adjustment & burnout.

Pragmatic about what's clinical and what's structural. Honest formulation of where the problem actually sits — workload, role, environment, relationship — and where the patterns of how you're relating to it are part of it.

Substantial experience with high-functioning clients. Professionals, leaders and people in roles with real, sustained demands — including work that doesn't pause while therapy happens.

Clear about diagnosis and direction. Whether what you're describing is adjustment, burnout, or something requiring longer-term clinical work — and what each of those means for the plan.

WorkCover-suitable for psychological injury claims. SIRA-registered, with experience supporting clients through insurer and case-managed pathways where work stress has tipped into a claimable injury.

Master of Organisational Psychology training. Useful framing for work-context formulation — alongside the clinical work, not instead of it.

Action-oriented, not theoretical. The work moves toward decisions and changes, paced to what's sustainable.

In-person at Parramatta, serving Westmead, Harris Park, Granville, North Parramatta, Rosehill and Merrylands and surrounding Sydney suburbs. Telehealth available Australia-wide.

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Free resources

Written & video resources on stress, adjustment & burnout.

Practical guides, explainers and short videos you can use whether or not we work together.

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FAQ

Common questions about stress, adjustment & burnout.

Is burnout an actual diagnosis?

Burnout is recognised as an occupational phenomenon but not a standalone mental health diagnosis. That doesn’t make it less real — and sometimes what looks like burnout is actually depression we need to treat.

Can I claim Medicare for stress or burnout?

Medicare rebates require a mental health diagnosis (e.g., depression, anxiety, adjustment disorder). At session one we’ll clarify what’s going on and whether you qualify.

Do I need therapy, or do I need to quit my job?

Sometimes both, sometimes neither. The work is to figure out which — honestly — and support you through whichever direction makes sense.

How long does this kind of work take?

This varies widely depending on what’s driving it. We agree an expected range at session two and review as we go.

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