Separate from Your Clients’ Emotions.
Prevent and Resolve Burnout for Good.
Learn to separate from your clients’ emotions so you can keep doing the work you love, without the exhaustion, mystery physical issues, or burnout.
Your Clients and Your Livelihood Depend on You
You’re really good at your job, and every day you support folks as they transform their lives.
You’re a counselor or coach who sits with people one-on-one, session after session, while they talk to you about the hardest parts of their lives. You’ve built a successful practice, and your clients keep coming back because you help them thrive.
But holding space for them all is burning you out, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to continue showing up to do the work you love.
You replay sessions on your drive home and lie awake thinking about the client who’s struggling most. You feel a knot in your stomach when certain names come up on your calendar. By Sunday night, you’re already dreading Monday.
When you get home, there’s nothing left for the people you love.
You stop answering texts, cancel plans, doom scroll on your phone, and sit in silence just to recover. Some days you wonder whether you should cut back on clients, or leave the field altogether, even though this work is your calling.
You’ve tried the self-care: the baths, the meditation, the boundaries, the white light. And it helps for a while.
But you still take your clients home with you, you’ve developed mystery physical maladies you can’t explain, and you’re losing touch with the person you used to be.
Why Self-Care Doesn’t Cut It
Most approaches to burnout focus on workload, rest, and boundaries. They overlook one simple fact: caring people pick up the emotions of everyone around them.
Your body is wired to mirror the people around you, and you cannot turn this off.
Every conversation, client session, news headline, and social media scroll exposes you to someone else’s experience, and that experience shows up as sensations in your own system.
When those sensations can move through you, your system will reset and you’ll feel fine. But when that sensation lands on a pathway within your own system you’ve learned to shut down, it gets stuck.
All the self-care in the world cannot separate you from other people’s emotions, only self-regulation can do that.
Over time, stuck emotion shows up as exhaustion, mystery physical issues, compassion fatigue, and burnout.
Your 2pm client’s crisis decides the rest of your day. Your week determines your weekend. Others’ trauma becomes your trauma. And you spend all your time outside of work desperately trying to recover.
So you try harder.
You bring your hardest cases to consultation. You see your own therapist. You take the vacation, block off the afternoon, and cut back on clients.
But you still can’t recover.
From Container to Conduit:
Prevent Burnout with Simple Steps For Separation
You can’t stop mirroring your clients, and you wouldn’t want to.
Your sensitivity is what makes you so good at your work.
What you can do is learn how mirrored sensation impacts your system, develop self-awareness of where it gets stuck, and master working with clients in ways that naturally set it free. Once it moves, you can see clearly what happened to whom, care about your clients without carrying them home, and feel, think, and act as yourself again.
The Gravity Point® Method empowers you to transform yourself from being a container for your clients to being a conduit.
A container holds everything it takes in until it cracks under the weight. A conduit lets others’ sensations move through it and becomes a channel for healing along the way.
When you become a conduit, you:
Leave sessions with more energy, not less.
Stop replaying sessions long after they’ve finished.
Have energy left for your life, so you can enjoy your family, play with your pets, and say yes to plans again.
See more clients without dreading the hard ones, because each session moves through you.
Watch stuck clients start to move, once you stop carrying what’s theirs to feel.
When you become a conduit, the healing you do on your own system naturally helps you guide others in their healing as well.
The Gravity Point® Program
For counselors and coaches with established one-on-one practices, either working for themselves or within a group practice or agency, who are ready to thrive in their work again.
You’ve built a practice you love, but your clients’ pain is coming home with you. You’ve tried the self-care, the consultation, and your own therapy, and you’re still exhausted.
This program teaches you the full Gravity Point® Method. You’ll learn to:
Master your own body-mind-relationship system and find where your clients’ emotions get stuck in you.
Clear the blocks that keep picked-up emotion from moving through.
Structure your time and sessions so your work stops draining you.
Learn advanced skills to work with clients in ways that hand back what’s theirs, help them grow stronger, and increase your peace and profit in your practice.
Start with the free masterclass, and you can learn more about enrollment from there.
“It prevented my burnout and made me a more effective therapist.”
I was working with over 30 clients a week, most of them in trauma treatment. I was exhausted, overwhelmed, and nearing burnout. This method gave me the tools to release my own emotional blockages, which prevented my burnout and allowed me to be a more effective therapist. Since then, I’ve opened my own practice and completely changed my life.
~Emilee, Licensed Professional Counselor
Hi, I’m Atlas and You’re In the Right Place
Within months of starting my career as a trauma therapist and a university professor teaching and supervising in master’s-level counseling programs, I burned out.
I couldn’t sleep, didn’t eat, and my body was breaking down. Every day, I swung between anxiety and depression no doctor could explain.
I was already doing all the self-care: meditating, journaling, prioritizing alone time, spending time with friends, bubble baths, expensive facials, working out, getting rest, and going to my own therapy sessions.
Self-care didn’t cut it.
After diving into a ton of research and experimenting across thousands of hours with clients, I finally changed three things:
How I thought about emotion, mirroring, and the real physical and mental effects of picking up others’ “stuff”
How I assessed my own system to find where emotion got stuck, and repaired the pathways I’d learned to shut down
How I worked with clients to hand back what was theirs, so they could feel it, move through it, and grow stronger
Once I did this, both my personal and professional lives drastically improved.
Today, I’m a licensed counselor with a PhD in Counselor Education, a TEDx speaker, and the creator of the Gravity Point® Paradigm. Before launching the Institute, across the first decade of my career, I worked as a university professor, supervisor, and curriculum developer for counseling programs at three universities, where I taught this work to graduate students and clinicians in supervision. Now I teach it to counselors and coaches here at the Institute.
Our world needs its helpers more than ever, and it needs us at our best. My mission is to help you keep doing the work you love for as long as you choose.
Watch the free masterclass and take the first step toward a thriving practice that no longer costs you your health.