Work-Related Stress
Therapy for work stress in Edmond, Oklahoma
Your job can matter without costing you all of yourself.
Workplace pressure, difficult relationships, career changes, layoffs, performance anxiety, and blurred boundaries can follow you long after the workday ends. Therapy offers adults a place to sort through what is happening and respond with greater clarity.
Understanding work stress
Work can follow you home after the laptop closes.
Work-related stress is not limited to having too much to do. It can come from unclear expectations, conflict, instability, discrimination, responsibility, perfectionism, or a role that no longer fits.
Therapy can help you understand how work is affecting your thoughts, body, relationships, and sense of self. The goal is not to make every hard day disappear. It is to help you move through work and career decisions with more support, choice, and room to be a person outside of your job.
You may be experiencing
When work takes up more space than the hours on your calendar.
Work stress can show up before, during, and after the workday. It may affect your confidence, energy, attention, sleep, and ability to connect with the rest of your life.
Feeling as if every task, decision, or deadline carries more weight than it should.
Replaying interactions with a supervisor or coworker long after the workday ends.
Navigating a new role, job search, layoff, promotion, or uncertainty about what comes next.
Overpreparing, second-guessing yourself, or fearing that one mistake will define you.
Checking messages after hours or feeling guilty when you are not immediately available.
Measuring your value by productivity, achievement, title, income, or other people’s approval.
Our approach to work-related stress
Make room for choices that feel more intentional.
Therapy at Acuity is a place to think clearly without being told to simply work harder, care less, or quit. We help you understand the full situation and develop responses that fit your values, responsibilities, and real life.
Unpack
See the whole situation.
Understand the workplace dynamics, expectations, experiences, and beliefs keeping stress in motion.
Clarify
Find what matters now.
Identify what matters, what is within your control, and which choices support your well-being.
Practice
Try a different response.
Build realistic boundaries, communication skills, and ways to recover outside of work.
More room outside of work
Your job does not have to define your whole day.
Therapy can help you understand workplace pressure, clarify what matters, and make decisions with support rather than being pushed toward one answer.
Get startedInsurance Plans We Accept
Care that feels supportive from the very first step.
Acuity Counseling is in-network with several major insurance plans, helping make quality mental health care more accessible.
Book an Appointment
Choose who feels right for you.
Our therapists blend compassion with real, evidence-based tools to help you feel seen, supported, and empowered to grow.
Online across Oklahoma · In person in Edmond
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Whitney Hake
MCP, LPC-S, NCC
- In person
- Online
- Insurance accepted
Julie Siberts
M.Ed., LPC-Candidate, NCC
- In person
- Online
- Insurance accepted
Not sure who to choose? The booking window can help you compare availability. You can also contact Acuity directly.
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More ways to feel like yourself.
Acuity offers a range of services, each designed to meet specific needs. Our goal is to provide the right kind of support for every challenge you may face.
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Questions you may have about therapy and work
Is work stress serious enough for therapy?
Yes. You do not need to wait until work stress becomes a crisis. Therapy can help when workplace pressure, conflict, dread, overthinking, or exhaustion is affecting your sleep, relationships, confidence, health, or ability to be present outside of work.
Can therapy help if I cannot leave my job?
Yes. Therapy does not require you to quit or make a major decision. You can explore what is within your control, strengthen boundaries and coping skills, clarify your options, and make thoughtful choices that fit your responsibilities and values.
Can therapy help with a difficult supervisor or coworker?
Therapy can give you space to understand the situation, prepare for hard conversations, notice patterns, and decide how you want to respond. Your therapist cannot change another person, but therapy can help you protect your well-being and act with greater clarity.
Can therapy support a layoff, job search, or career change?
Yes. Work changes can affect identity, security, confidence, relationships, and daily structure. Therapy can help you process the emotional impact while making room for practical decisions and the uncertainty that comes with transition.
How is work-related stress different from the burnout page?
This page focuses specifically on workplace and career experiences such as performance pressure, conflict, job changes, layoffs, difficult boundaries, and work-life balance. Burnout can develop in many parts of life, including caregiving, relationships, and other ongoing responsibilities.
Can therapy for work stress be provided online?
Yes. Acuity offers in-person appointments in Edmond and online therapy for adults who are physically located in Oklahoma during each session.
