Burnout Specialist
Burnout-Proof Your Life
Specialized burnout recovery coaching, hypnotherapy for behavioral change, and stress regulation delivered online for professionals, founders, and leaders seeking clarity, focus, and steady energy.
Ways to Work Together
Burnout Recovery & Personal Recalibration
A personalized coaching process for professionals, founders, and leaders who want to recover from burnout, rebuild clarity, and restore steady energy. Using coaching, hypnotherapy techniques, and stress-regulation tools, you’ll reduce overwhelm, improve focus, shift the patterns that drive burnout, and begin to burnout-proof your life. Online and tailored to your goals.
Burnout Prevention & Resilient Performance for Teams
Workshops and keynotes that help organizations prevent burnout, strengthen resilience, improve focus, and burnout-proof their teams. Practical tools for healthier, more motivated performance. Available online or on-site.
Tired of being tired? It's time to begin your burnout recovery.
Real burnout recovery starts with understanding your patterns and making strategic, sustainable shifts.
Burnout leaves you caught between your responsibilities and your own needs, feeling overwhelmed, unfocused, and permanently exhausted. No matter how much effort you put in, it never feels like enough.
If your days look like staring at your screen without clarity, replaying work problems at night, skipping meals, or losing interest in the things you used to enjoy, you are not alone. The cycle continues because the underlying patterns have not changed yet.
Lasting recovery is not about pushing harder. It is about re-calibrating how you work, think, and respond so that your energy, focus, and wellbeing can stabilize again.
Break the burnout cycle and reclaim your energy.
Leave Overwhelm Behind
What You Will Leave Behind When You Start Your Burnout Recovery
- Wishing you could clone yourself just to get through your to-do list.
- Feeling like no matter how much you do, it is never enough to keep up.
- Running on adrenaline and telling yourself it is motivation.
- Waking up at night with your mind replaying work problems.
- Feeling guilty for not being fully present with the people you care about.
- Living without any real work life balance, leaving little space for rest, self-care, or hobbies.
Go From Busy to Balanced With a Personalized Burnout Recovery Plan
Burnout and overwhelm don’t have to define your life. With my personalized approach to burnout recovery, you will replace unhealthy patterns with sustainable habits, strengthen your emotional regulation, and rebuild balance in a way that fits your goals and your reality.
Together, we will create a recovery plan that helps you restore clarity, steady energy, and a healthier relationship with work, so you can thrive personally and professionally.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
Dr. Leonor Carvalho is a burnout recovery coach who works with professionals, founders, and leaders.
She offers online 1:1 burnout coaching and corporate burnout workshops internationally.
You don’t fix burnout by doing less; you fix it by thinking differently.
Burnout did not appear suddenly. It built up slowly as I pushed myself to achieve more, deliver more, and meet expectations that were often unrealistic. I struggled to switch off, my mind was always racing, and I tied my sense of worth to how much I produced. Between research, writing, teaching, and managing several projects at once, I gradually lost connection with myself.
While on the outside, everything looked fine and under control. On the inside, I felt exhausted, disconnected, and unsure of who I was when I was not working. During recovery, I realized that I was living in patterns shaped by pressure, perfectionism, and over commitment, not by my own values.
Seeing this clearly was the turning point. I decided to rebuild my life in a healthier and more sustainable way, one that matched the kind of professional and person I wanted to become.
Today, I use my experience and specialized training to support founders, leaders, and high-achieving professionals who are dealing with burnout or heading toward it. My work helps them regain clarity, restore energy, strengthen emotional regulation, and create a sustainable way to perform well without losing themselves in the process.
What you can expect by working with me:
- Professional, confidential, and well-structured sessions.
- A coaching style that is empathetic, direct, and focused on real progress.
- Evidence based techniques, somatic- and energetic practices
- Practical tools to improve emotional regulation, clarity, and performance.
Personalized guidance and additional resources to support your recovery journey
Not Sure If We Are the Right Match to Work Together
A clarity call helps you understand how my approach works and whether it fits your needs and goals.
What Working With a Burnout Coach Looks Like
We create a personalized burnout recovery plan based on your goals, challenges, and situation.
I’ve developed and refined a skill set that I use in my burnout coaching to help you uncover the root cause of your burnout and develop new, healthy patterns. This not only helps you get out of burnout but also prevents you from falling back into it.
Clarity and Mindset Coaching
Learn practical tools tailored to your life and work situation that help you strengthen your mindset, improve clarity, and build healthier habits. This work supports personal growth and helps you manage stress, expectations, and daily demands more effectively.
Hypnotherapy
Update the subconscious patterns that drive stress, over commitment, and perfectionism. These techniques help you reduce overwhelm, improve emotional regulation, and create the mental space you need to make clearer decisions and meaningful changes.
Somatic Resilience Training
Use body-based regulation tools to calm the nervous system, release built-up tension, and increase awareness of stress signals. Somatic practices help you stabilise your energy, respond more effectively under pressure, and build resilience in both work and daily life.
This integrated approach helps you recover from burnout, strengthen resilience, and create the clarity and energy needed for sustainable high performance.
Take the Next Step in Your Burnout Recovery
A clarity call gives us a chance to meet, discuss your situation, and decide whether working together is the right fit. It is simply a conversation to ask questions, understand what you are looking for, and see if my approach aligns with your needs. There is no pressure to commit.
What my past clients say about burnout coaching with me:
"I have had many breakthroughs that resulted in personal growth and advancement in my career, family matters and relationships. My confidence in communication and decision making matured as I gained a deeper and better understanding of my inner world."
"Leonor has been instrumental in helping me refocus and find my path forward in an inspiring and meaningful way. She is a wealth of knowledge and a calming force with a kind heart. If you are looking to make sense and overcome the chaos and stress of life, Leonor is just the person to help you do that."
Working with Leonor has been a meaningful journey of self-discovery. At times, it can be hard to know where to begin, but the path Leonor laid out provided a clear starting point and direction. It brought clarity and fresh perspective on my own thinking patterns, helping me recognize and avoid pitfalls along the way. The practical techniques I gained will continue to support me well into the future.
"I noticed my focus and decisiveness was improved after only a few sessions. It's a funny thing when you have mixed emotions about a behavior or idea and sometimes you just need a simple way to communicate with the inner world. I enjoyed Leonor's gentle communication during our sessions. I highly recommend!"
"Everybody around me tells me that they can see a big progress in my person. I always feel very comfortable talking about everything and I feel myself a lot better in different parts of my life (home, work, mom). For each challenge I bring to the table, Leonor always finds a way to help, even when the subjects are very broad, apart and complex. She is very flexible and open."
"I am happy to say that I am more present now thanks to the work with Leonor. There are other aspects too: I enjoy work more, I acknowledge small wins, I love myself more, I am less stressed, I prioritize things that bring me joy over the burdening "shoulds"...etc."
"Leonor is a true professional! I attended one of her events and I must say I left feeling inspired and with a positive attitude towards my struggles. Nevertheless she is a wonderful person to be around."
"Simply wonderful! That would be the way of describing the experience of being coached by Leonor. Through a very professional, but warm chat she manages to help you realise and unleash your true potential and, with a kind and respectful push she encourages to carry on with it making you feel empowered. If you feel you are in need of coaching in any way, Leonor coaching sessions are highly recommended."
Not sure if we are a good match to start your journey into a life without burnout?
FAQ about burnout coaching
There is no single timeline for burnout recovery. It depends on the stage of burnout you are in, how long the patterns have been present, and what support you have. Most clients work with me for 3 to 6 months. Recovery happens in stages, and the goal is to rebuild clarity, energy, and resilience in a sustainable way.
If you would like an initial sense of what your situation looks like, you can book a clarity call.
It is completely normal to feel too exhausted or overwhelmed to start anything new. In my experience, no one begins coaching because they suddenly have plenty of time and energy. People begin because the way they are coping is no longer sustainable.
There is no perfect moment to start. What matters is that you are open to support. Coaching is not another demand on your plate. It is a structured space designed to help you regain clarity, reduce overwhelm, and make things feel more manageable.
Your sessions will be focused, efficient, and aligned with your capacity. Any practices I give you will fit your real life, not add more pressure. Most clients find that this work becomes something they genuinely look forward to because it helps them feel better, not busier.
Burnout involves specific patterns related to stress physiology, behaviour, mindset, and emotional regulation. Working with a specialist means you receive targeted tools and a structured method designed for burnout, not general guidance.
Burnout coaching helps you understand the patterns and pressures that are draining your energy and keeping burnout in place. Together, we identify what is contributing to your exhaustion, clarify what needs to change, and create a practical plan that supports your recovery.
Coaching provides structure, accountability, and evidence informed tools that help you:
reduce overwhelm and emotional reactivity
rebuild clarity, focus, and steady energy
set healthier boundaries and habits
use stress management and regulation techniques that actually work
create a more sustainable way to live and perform
It is a forward focused process designed to help you recover and prevent burnout in the long term.
Coaching sessions are offered in English and Portuguese.
Coaching and therapy serve different purposes. Therapy focuses on mental health, healing trauma, and treating clinical conditions. Coaching focuses on your current patterns, your goals, and the skills and strategies that help you move forward in a sustainable way.
My approach stays within the scope of coaching. I do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. However, I am trauma informed, which means I understand how past experiences can influence current behaviours, stress responses, and burnout patterns. When relevant, we work with those patterns in a safe and non clinical way so you can make meaningful progress toward the future you want.
Coaching with me is forward focused, practical, and grounded in evidence informed methods, while also being sensitive to the parts of your past that may still be shaping how you show up today.
Every person is different, but many clients begin noticing improvements in clarity, focus, emotional regulation, or energy within the first few weeks. Long term change develops over the full coaching process.
Coaching is not suitable for people who need clinical treatment, crisis intervention, or support for unmanaged mental health conditions. If you require medical or therapeutic care, I will always refer you to the appropriate professional. Coaching is forward focused and practical, not clinical.
It is completely normal to feel unsure about hypnotherapy, especially if your ideas come from movies or stage performances. Real hypnotherapy is nothing like that. I cannot control your mind, and you will never do anything you do not want to do.
Hypnotherapy is simply a guided, relaxed state of focused attention that helps you work with subconscious patterns in a safe and controlled way. You remain aware, alert, and in full control at all times.
In burnout coaching, hypnotherapy can help you:
reduce stress and overwhelm
update old patterns related to pressure and over commitment
strengthen emotional regulation
create more mental space for clarity and change
You can also read more about about hypnotherapy in my blog article.
A clarity call is a short conversation where we get to know each other and decide whether working together is the right fit. Every person is unique, so this call helps me understand your situation, what you are looking for, and what kind of support would be most helpful for you.
You will have space to share your goals, challenges, and anything you feel comfortable mentioning about your story. You can also ask questions about my approach and how the coaching process works.
There is no coaching in this call. It is simply an opportunity to explore whether we are a good match. If we both agree to move forward, I will send you the coaching agreement and we will schedule your first session.
A commitment to change – just turning up to the sessions is not enough. You have to commit to yourself to do the work and take responsibility for the outcome of the coaching.
A commitment to the session – turn up on time, take the opportunities when we’re together seriously and be present in each session.
A commitment to the homework – take responsibility for the mutually agreed upon actions each session. Often the greatest understanding, realizations, and clarity come in between sessions.
To be honest – even if it’s difficult or uncomfortable because it’s in this space that the greatest changes happen.
To challenge yourself – you can play it safe sure, but if you really want to grow then up your game. You’ll be amazed at how small changes make a big difference.
To have fun – this is your life, your health, your dreams, your journey. Enjoy it, embrace it and have fun with it. Not everything will be serious, nor should it.
Start burnout coaching:
Apply for a clarity call to get to know your burnout coach and the next steps
