Trauma-Informed, Nervous-System-Aware Support for Burnout, Stress & Recovery

Supporting adults who are exhausted, overwhelmed, or carrying the long-term effects of stress and trauma.

This is a calm, confidential space where you don’t have to push, perform, or hold it all together. Together, we focus on restoring safety, capacity, and clarity — at a pace your nervous system can tolerate.

Online / Telehealth | Australia-wide

Hi, I’m Cindy Burke

I am a qualified counsellor and integrative practitioner supporting adults experiencing burnout, emotional overwhelm, and the cumulative effects of stress and trauma.

My approach is trauma-informed, ethical, and nervous-system aware. I draw on counselling frameworks alongside integrative approaches such as CBT, narrative therapy, NLP-informed techniques, timeline-based work, and guided therapeutic processes — always applied gently and within scope.

I bring experience across education, leadership, and wellbeing roles, supporting individuals who carry high levels of responsibility and expectation. Many of the people I work with are capable, conscientious, and quietly exhausted.

Alongside professional training, I bring lived understanding of burnout and recovery. This informs a style of practice that is grounded, realistic, and compassionate — particularly for people who are used to holding everything together.

Clients often describe my work as calm, containing, and clarifying.

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Who I Work With

I support adults who:

Feel exhausted, flat, or emotionally overwhelmed
Are experiencing burnout or chronic stress
Feel disconnected from themselves or their work
Struggle with self‑doubt, perfectionism, or imposter syndrome
Carry the long‑term effects of trauma, pressure, or life events

Many of my clients are high‑functioning professionals, carers, educators, and leaders who have spent years coping — until their nervous system can no longer sustain it.

My Approach

Trauma‑Informed & Integrative

My work rests on three pillars: Psychology, Energy, and Action, held within a trauma‑informed framework.

Psychology – Building insight, self‑awareness, and emotional regulation while gently addressing unhelpful patterns and beliefs. This is not about diagnosing or labelling - it's about making sense of your experience with compassion and clarity.

Energy – Supporting nervous‑system regulation, rest, embodiment, and sustainable self‑care to restore capacity. Energy here does not mean pushing, positivity, or performance - it means how safe and resourced your system feels to engage with life.

Action – Translating insight into small, realistic, values‑aligned steps — without pressure or urgency. Action is always collaborative, optional, and paced - never forced.

All work is paced according to your capacity and consent. Safety and stabilisation always come first.

How This Comes Together & Why This Works
(and why its safe)

Psychology helps you understand what’s been happening.

Energy helps your system feel safe enough to process it.

Action helps you move forward in ways that don’t lead back to burnout.

This integrated approach allows change to happen without pressure to push through or “fix” yourself.

This work honours your nervous system, your lived experience, and your readiness — progress is measured by safety, not speed.

This practice is not a crisis service. If you are in immediate distress or unsafe, please contact Lifeline (13 11 14) or emergency services.

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​Trauma-Informed, Nervous-System-Aware Support for Burnout, Stress & Recovery