When stress becomes constant, overthinking feels endless, or burnout begins affecting your work, relationships, and mental health, you don’t have to manage it alone. Jennifer Ritchie, a Registered Psychotherapist, offers warm, evidence-based virtual therapy for burnout, chronic stress, rumination, tech-industry overwhelm, and high achiever anxiety for clients across Waterloo and Ontario.
Burnout and chronic stress can leave you exhausted, disconnected, and trapped in cycles of overthinking. At my practice, I support young professionals, tech workers, students, working parents, and high achievers throughout Waterloo who are navigating overwhelm, performance pressure, and emotional exhaustion.
With 18 years of clinical experience and advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy, CBT, DBT, and stress-related grief work, I help you explore what’s beneath the burnout—not with judgment, but with curiosity and compassion. Whether you’re coping with tech-worker burnout, remote-work fatigue, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, university stress, or high-pressure workplace expectations, we work together to understand your patterns and create healthier ways of coping.
Therapy with me is collaborative and grounded in genuine connection. I believe people thrive when they feel heard, understood, and supported. My role isn’t to tell you who to be—I help you explore what you feel, understand why you’re overwhelmed, and make meaningful changes that align with your values. Together, we move at a pace that feels right for you as you reconnect to balance, boundaries, confidence, and your sense of self.
Burnout goes beyond simple tiredness—it affects mood, performance, motivation, and your ability to feel present. I help clients recover from workplace burnout, startup stress, overcommitment, emotional exhaustion, and hustle culture pressure.
Whether you can’t shut your brain off at night, struggle with looping thoughts, or feel consumed by overanalysis, therapy can help break unhelpful cognitive cycles. We explore underlying anxiety, perfectionism, and emotional triggers contributing to rumination.
Waterloo’s tech industry is fast-paced and demanding, often creating chronic stress, Zoom fatigue, productivity anxiety, and performance pressure. I provide tailored support for software developers, startup employees, and remote workers navigating “always on” expectations.
From overworking to guilt around resting, we address people-pleasing, saying “no,” work-life imbalance, and carrying the emotional weight of others. Therapy focuses on building stronger boundaries and reclaiming time, energy, and emotional space.
Many high performers struggle internally with self-doubt, perfectionism, and the fear of not being “good enough.” Together, we unpack these patterns and build a more grounded, confident sense of self.
Students face tremendous academic pressure, decision fatigue, social stress, and the weight of expectations. I provide specialized support for University of Waterloo students, grad students, and young adults navigating anxiety, burnout, and identity changes.
If you’re balancing work demands, family responsibilities, and emotional overload, therapy helps you find steadiness again—emotionally, mentally, and relationally.
Sessions are available online throughout Waterloo and Ontario, offering accessible, confidential support for those dealing with chronic stress, mental overload, and burnout.
Online therapy provides tools to reduce stress, calm overthinking, understand burnout patterns, and rebuild emotional balance—all from home.
Yes. Many Waterloo clients work in tech or remote roles. Therapy helps with productivity anxiety, performance pressure, Zoom fatigue, and the stress of being “always on.”
Racing thoughts and nighttime overthinking are common signs of anxiety and rumination. Therapy helps calm mental loops and address what’s fueling them.
Absolutely. I provide counselling for student burnout, academic pressure, decision fatigue, and balancing school with life demands.
Yes—these are frequent contributors to burnout. Therapy helps you understand expectations, challenge pressure, and rebuild confidence.