Therapy for a World on Fire: Trauma-Informed Support for Burnout, Grief, and Overwhelm

We Know the World is Burning and We Aren't Afraid to Talk About It

You're not overreacting.

The world is on fire, figuratively, literally, existentially.

If you’re feeling the weight of just trying to survive in a world that far too often these days feels violent, chaotic, and upside down… you’re not alone.

If you’ve found ways to cope, even if they’re messy, even if they’re not always sustainable, we want you to know: they make sense.

Signs You Might Be Carrying Collective Trauma

Maybe it’s the news. Maybe it’s a quiet grief you carry in your body, one that doesn’t always have words. Maybe you’re just tired; tired of having to keep showing up in systems that ask you to normalize burnout, racism, homophobia, ableism, ecological collapse, political cruelty all while keeping it together, staying productive, and pretending everything is fine.

You might notice:

• Numbing out or feeling emotionally flat

• Trouble concentrating or staying present

• Over-functioning or constantly staying busy

• Doomscrolling or obsessively seeking information

• Feeling stuck in cycles of guilt, helplessness, or rage

• A sense of detachment from your own needs, values, or emotions

• Difficulty resting or feeling safe in your body

Well, of course you do!

This is not a diagnosis but a response to a broken system

These are not weaknesses. They are adaptive responses to living in a chronically dysregulated world. On that note, living in a chronically dysregulated world, shocker, dysregulates people. This isn’t a personal failure. It’s an human response to systems that have been intentionally built to keep people from thriving.

You Deserve Care That Holds Your Humanity

At The Pine Center, we don’t pathologize your pain, we sit with it. We know it. It's ours too.

We get curious about your patterns, not critical. We honor the ways you’ve learned to survive, and we walk with you as you learn new ways to exist, ways that are rooted in connection, care, and choice.

We know that no amount of self-care can undo structural harm. There aren’t enough bubble baths in the world to take away the ache of living in late-stage capitalism, or the burnout of caregiving in systems that don’t give back. Not everything can be fixed, but it can be witnessed. We’re not here to hand you a gratitude journal and send you on your way. We're way past that.

We’re here to be with you, honestly, relationally, tenderly, in the fire. We understand what you've had to normalize just to keep going.

This is therapy that names what’s real. That doesn’t shy away from rage or sorrow. That makes room for complexity and contradiction. That invites your nervous system to breathe, maybe for the first time in a long while. We believe that you don't have to make peace with injustice to find peace in your body.

Here, you don’t need to pretend it's all ok and that everything is normal. You get to show up exactly as you are: overwhelmed, numb, heartbroken, disconnected, resilient. All of it belongs.

You deserve care that holds your humanity. Especially in a world that keeps trying to take it from you.

We're here for you when you're ready, and until then, please take care of yourself.