What is the difference between burnout and depression?

Burnout is usually tied to a context, most often work, and tends to lift when the load or the meaning changes. Depression is more pervasive and follows you across situations. They overlap and can feed each other, which is why it helps to talk it through with someone rather than self-diagnose.

How do I know if I am burnt out or just lazy?

Laziness is a choice to avoid something you could do. Burnout is running out of the fuel to do things you genuinely care about. If rest does not restore you and even small tasks feel enormous, that is not laziness. It is depletion.

Can therapy help if my job is the actual problem?

Yes. Therapy will not pretend a toxic workplace is in your head. It helps you see the situation clearly, protect your health inside it, and make grounded decisions about what to change, including whether to stay.

I feel anxious about layoffs and AI. Is that worth therapy?

Absolutely. Survival anxiety and the fear of your identity collapsing with your job are real and increasingly common. Naming that fear, and separating your worth from your output, is exactly the kind of work therapy is good at.

Do you offer support for teams or companies?

Yes. We run culturally-fluent workplace and campus programs that people actually trust enough to use. You can read more on our page for organisations.

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Our approach

Safety first. Then trust. Then growth.

Most therapy goes wrong by starting in the wrong place. Insight offered before safety is established does not land, and homework given before trust is built feels like another performance review. We work in an order, and we say what it is.

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The short answer

Fenweh is trauma-informed, queer-affirmative and culturally rooted. In practice that means three things: your nervous system gets settled before anything is asked of it, your identity is not treated as the presenting problem, and you never have to explain what a joint family is. We draw on several modalities rather than one, and we tell you which one we are using and why.

Fenweh — a client raising a hand to pause while a therapist waits and three paths lie open, illustrating choice and consent in trauma-informed therapy

First, safety

A settled body can think. A braced one cannot.

Trauma-informed is not a badge, it is a sequence. Before we go anywhere difficult, we make sure you can come back.

You set the pace, and stopping is always available without justifying it.
Nothing is asked of you in the first session except what you want to bring.
You will be told what we are doing before we do it, not after.
Grounding is taught early, so the difficult material has somewhere to land.

Fenweh — a client tracing warm currents through their own body while a therapist guides, illustrating somatic body awareness

Then, trust

You should not have to audition for your own therapist.

Trust is built by the therapist being consistent and specific, not by you disclosing faster.

What that looks like

You can say "I am not out at home" once, and never explain it again.

And what it rules out

Being asked whether you have tried yoga. Being told your parents did their best before you have finished the sentence. Having your queerness treated as the thing to be resolved.

Then, growth

Whatever growth means for you, not for us.

We do not have a house definition of a life well lived. What we have is a set of methods, chosen for the person in front of us.

Where the methods come from

Psychodynamic work for patterns with long roots. CBT and behavioural tools where a loop needs interrupting. Somatic and parts work where the body is holding what language cannot. Narrative work where the story you were handed no longer fits.

How we choose

Deliberately, and out loud. Your therapist will tell you what they are drawing on and why they think it suits you. If it is not working, saying so is useful information rather than a complaint.

Fair questions

What people want to know about how we work.

What does trauma-informed actually mean here?+

That we assume difficult things may have happened, and we build the room accordingly: pace, consent, predictability, and a way back. It does not mean we will excavate your childhood in session two.

What does queer-affirmative mean in practice?+

Your identity is never the pathology. Nobody will look for a cause, and nobody will treat coming out as the goal. Therapists here have done the training and, in many cases, the living.

Do you follow one school of therapy?+

No. Single-modality practices are tidy but they fit the client to the method. We work integratively and tell you what we are using.

Is culturally rooted just a marketing line?+

It is the reason people stay. It means not spending your first three sessions explaining what a joint family is, why you send money home, or what it costs to be the eldest daughter.

What if I do not click with my therapist?+

Say so, to them or to us, and we will rematch you at no cost. Fit matters more than any technique, and a mismatch is not anyone failing.

Fenweh — a client raising a hand to pause while a therapist waits, illustrating consent and choice in trauma-informed care

When you are ready

You are not a problem to be solved by the right framework.

The method matters less than whether the person using it understands where you are speaking from.

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Meet the therapists

Named humans with a real point of view.

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How it works & pricing

What to expect, and exactly what it costs.

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Trauma-informed care

What it means when the eldest daughter comes in.

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The work itself

The methods behind the room.

We are integrative rather than loyal to one school. Your therapist chooses the approach that fits the problem in front of you, explains why, and changes it when it stops being useful.