A Burnout Coach…
for deep feelers, big thinkers, and unconventional minds.
Come back to yourself. Build from there.
This is coaching for people
who've been told
their mind is the problem
You're probably someone who has spent a significant portion of your life being a lot. Too sensitive, too intense, too inconsistent, too much or not enough by whatever measure was being applied that day. You learned to manage that. To mask, to overperform, to earn your place in rooms that weren't built for you. For a while, it worked.
Burnout is what happens when it stops working. And if you're here, you probably already know that rest isn't the whole answer. Something more fundamental needs to change.
That's exactly what this work is about. Not fixing you, because you're not broken. Not optimizing you, because that's just the same machine running faster. But getting genuinely curious about how you actually work: what motivates you beyond survival mode, where your creativity and natural drives got buried, and what it looks like to build a life around your real rhythms instead of performing someone else's.
This is deconditioning work, which means it can feel disorienting before it feels like freedom. You'll question things you've never questioned. You'll make choices that look strange from the outside. I'll be with you for all of it — not as someone who has a plan for you, but as someone who is genuinely, almost obsessively, interested in helping you become more yourself.
If that sounds like relief,
you're probably in the right place.
Hi,I’m Annalee
You're definitely in the right place if:
Trying to "live up to your potential" has left you running on empty, and you want to live as your actual self instead
Rest helped, but you're still caught in patterns you can't quite figure out how to exit
The ways you learned to motivate yourself don't work anymore, and you don't know what replaces them yet
You've set your internal bar based on your best days, and you're exhausted by the gap between those and every other day
You've done enough inner work to know yourself pretty well. What you need now is someone to help you practice actually doing things differently
You're neurodivergent, highly sensitive, gifted, or just someone who has always felt like the system wasn't built for you
You're done trying to find where you fit. You're ready to build it.
“Working with Annalee enabled me to tap into the source of my own creative genius and function at a highly energized level.”
-Denis .T
I’m not another “optimize your morning routine” coach.
I’m your navigator through the inner wilderness.
How this works
Coaching is self-directed by design. You bring what's alive for you: a decision you're stuck on, a pattern you keep running into, something that's not working, and you can't figure out why. We refine it together, find what you're actually after, and go from there. You lead. I listen, ask questions, reflect patterns back, and help you go deeper into what you already know but haven't quite heard yet.
What makes this different from other coaching?
I have what amounts to a graduate degree in deep listening. Years of graphic recording — turning complex, high-stakes conversations into visual maps in real time — trained me to hear not just what people say but what they mean, what connects, and what keeps surfacing. In a coaching session that means I'm tracking threads you might not notice yourself, and I'll name them when they matter.
I also have a particular understanding of what it feels like to dismantle a coercive system from the inside. I've done it in my own life; leaving not just conventional schooling but high-control religion. I've spent years doing visual consulting work alongside Indigenous communities reclaiming their land-based cultures and decolonizing their institutions. I’m intimately familiar with the process of deconditioning. The disorientation, the grief, the relief, the way things get shakier before they get steadier. When you're in the middle of questioning everything you were taught, it helps to be with someone who isn't rattled by that. I'm not.
When we problem-solve, we do it through a lens of accommodation: as we design systems for your life we’re working with how you actually function, not against it. Our calls are as close to a mask-free zone as I can make them. That means if you need to pace, doodle, lie down, turn your camera off, or take the call by phone so you can move through the woods… we do that. I also offer a visual coaching add on for folks who want to see their thoughts.
Side quests are welcome. Info dumps are welcome.
Non-linear thinking isn’t just tolerated here.
It’s useful. Part of your brilliance. And I love it.
THE ARC OF THE WORK
Progress isn't linear. It moves more like a spiral, returning to the same territories at deeper levels each time. But there's an overall trajectory, and it looks roughly like this:
Deconstructing
You're starting to realize how hard you've been straining. Your framework for your own experience is shifting. You're questioning things that used to feel solid. Maybe you're relieved, or angry, or both at once.
Rebuilding
You're beginning to suspect that the struggle wasn't because you were wrong or broken, but because you were taught you were — usually by well-meaning people who told you to override your instincts and comply. You're ready to start listening to yourself instead. Trust comes back slowly, in small deposits.
Navigating
You're learning how you actually do things. How you learn, rest, focus, love, grow. This stage takes real openness and curiosity. You'll run into beliefs that feel suddenly out of date. Radical acceptance is trickier than it sounds — and also more spacious than you might expect.
Cultivating
You know more about what works for you. Systems are up and running. You're learning how much slack to cut yourself and how hard to push. You're translating what you've learned into new territory. It's not perfect — no garden is — but this one is yours.
Each of these stages contains echoes of the others. The process is layered and iterative, which is exactly how deep change actually happens.
I’ll meet you where you’re at.
I’m into
flexibility and transparency
Sessions are booked individually. I recommend starting with 5-10 sessions to get into the deep work.
We go at your pace. Sometimes a break is good. We’ll make a plan for what to do when it gets hard to show up.
Returning clients can book a one-off for a tune up as needed.
For clients who think visually or want to see their thoughts take shape in real time, I also offer visual coaching sessions as an add-on.
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Some of the ways we can adapt our coaching calls to work better for you:
Choose phone coaching which allows for reclining, darker lighting movement/pacing and privacy.
Freedom to move fidget, doodle, avoid eye contact and otherwise unmask on video calls. Or just switch your camera off at will.
Collaborating using virtual visual tools (like Miro and shared whiteboards)
Record your coaching session. Just let me know at the top of our time.
“No wrong answers” and “everything is optional” are rules that I live by.
I love side quest and info dumps. I can keep up. It’s all relevant. Don’t even worry.
The Details
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Sessions with me cost:
126 CAD/ 1 hr189 CAD/1.5 hrs
Initial sessions are 1hr and 15 mins long to make time for intake review and housekeeping, and cost 152 CAD
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I work with 10 consistent clients at any given time. 2 spots are mentor coaching and/or sliding scale.
Returning clients are welcome to book one-off sessions pending availability.
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2 sliding scale spots are available by application. The lower end of the scale is 75 CAD.
Mentor coaching is available on request and arranged on a case by case basis.
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24 hrs notice is required for cancellations.
The full cost of a session will be charged for missed sessions without notice.
Exceptions can be made for illness and emergencies.
FAQ:
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This is worth taking seriously. If you're in acute burnout and genuinely can't hold one more commitment, this might not be the right moment. I'd rather you know that than sign up and add "show up for coaching" to your list of things to feel bad about not doing.
That said, most people who come to me are not in acute crisis. They’re either figuring out how to rebuild after burnout recovery, or they're in the chronic, grinding version of burnout: functional but not thriving, managing but not moving. For that, coaching isn't one more thing on the list. It's the thing that starts to reorganize the list.
We go at your pace. If you need to slow down, we slow down. If you need to take a break, we make a plan for that. The goal is never to add pressure.
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Most support systems were designed for a different kind of person than you are. Insight-based approaches only go so far without somewhere to actually practice doing things differently. If you've done a lot of inner work already, you're not starting from zero. You're ready for the next part.
However, coaching isn’t a magic elixir. Results aren’t guaranteed, and it works best if you have a bit of bandwidth or some resources to dedicate to it.If you feel like your head is underwater therapy or something similar would be a better fit.
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The simple answer is a question: how well resourced do you feel?
I think of coaching as something we do when we have resources and want to improve our lives. Therapy comes in when we are underresourced and need help to get our head above water. If therapy is a life preserver, coaching is a sail for your sail boat.
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I’m trained specifically to work with neurodivergent folks. I actually find that coaching everyone as if they are neurodivergent is more effective.
By that I mean:I’m curious about how each person, specifically, functions.
I believe that adaptations are for all humans and not just a few people on the fringes.
I take a strengths based approach no matter who I’m working with.
I use the social model of disability in my work. There are some specific challenges that neurodivergent folks (diagnosed or not) often face. For example overusing areas of gifted-ness to compensate for challenge areas, and dealing with specific trauma around rejection, self trust, and being controlled.
My work is based in the unschooling approach to self-directed learning. This is a way of learning that works especially well for many neurodivergent folks.
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Coaching usually centres around one topic per session. But sometimes arriving at a clear topic or question is half the work. Sometimes the topic shifts as we explore it.
If you have a specific topic, great! If you have only a vague idea, no problem. I’m happy to help you get to the clarity you need.
In our initial session we’ll talk about a zoomed out vision for what you’d like to explore or accomplish in our time together. This gives us a good place to start each time we meet.
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It happens! Usually, one or both of us will notice and say something. If you feel this coaching relationship isn’t what you need, then I applaud your clarity. I’m happy to recommend someone else and/ or wish you well on your next steps. Sessions are purchased individually so there are no packages to refund.
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It means I’m a big ol’ nerd about the nervous system.
I’m well versed in how the difficult things we’ve experienced in life show up in our bodies. I’m practiced at sensing when you get activated, and I know how to help you ground in your strength.It does not mean we will directly work on trauma the way you might with a therapist.
It’s important to work with a trauma-informed coach because coaching will always push us out of our comfort zone. We don’t have blocks for no reason. They’re usually survival strategies. You deserve support from someone who understands this, and knows how to open more choices for you in a way that doesn’t flood your nervous system.
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That discomfort is worth examining, because it's often one of the first things we work on. The belief that you have to earn care — that investing in yourself requires justification through productivity or ROI — is one of the core patterns that leads to burnout in the first place.
You don't have to resolve that discomfort before you book. But I'd invite you to notice it.
If cost is a genuine barrier, two sliding scale spots are available by application, with a lower end of $75 CAD. Mentor coaching is also available on request. Reach out and we'll figure out what's possible.
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Honestly no. Not on its own. I don't believe in self-help as a substitute for systemic change, and I'm not going to pretend that doing inner work exempts anyone from the impacts of an extractive system. Nobody gets to opt out completely, and individual resilience is not a solution to collective harm.
But we do need to navigate the system we're actually in, as well as we can, while it changes. Which it does, slowly, when enough people insist on being themselves and advocating. The more people who refuse to perpetuate these systems in small ways in their own lives, who bring their actual selves into their work and relationships and communities — the more our collective landscape shifts.
Coaching is not the whole answer. It's one place where you get to practice being fully yourself. That's not nothing. In fact, for most people, it turns out to be quite a lot.
You’ve still got questions? Not sure if this is the right fit for you? Maybe you need to feel it out.
No problem! You can book a free 30 minute…
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE
The changes are rarely dramatic at first. More often they show up as small recognitions: a decision that used to take days of agonizing comes more quickly. A situation that would have sent you into a spiral is just... a situation. You notice you've stopped apologizing for how you work. You catch yourself doing something purely because you wanted to, without immediately questioning whether it was productive enough to justify.
Then the bigger things. Creativity comes back, not as a project or a goal but as a natural way of moving through problems and uncertainty. The inner voice that got buried under years of compliance starts getting louder and more trustworthy. Boundaries emerge from an actual felt sense of what you need rather than a set of rules you're trying to remember to enforce. The mask gets heavier and less worth wearing.
What you're building, underneath all of it, is a life that runs on your actual energy rather than borrowed fuel. That turns out to be more sustainable, more generative, and more genuinely yours than anything you were able to construct while performing someone else's version of you.
None of this is my doing. What I bring is deep listening, steady presence, and complete faith in your process, even when you've temporarily lost it yourself. The work is yours. What you build belongs to you long after we stop working together.
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Gigi .G
Annalee possesses a talent for understanding complex personal dynamics. Her approach is very intuitive, and her visual analogies always give me great positive shifts in my mindset for the goal at hand. I always come out of the sessions with more clarity and feeling recharged. Coaching with Annalee will not only inspire you, but also equip you with the tools to sustain and continue your growth long after your sessions end.
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Vaelei .W.B
I recommend working with Annalee if you’d like to get to know yourself and your purpose/dharma/reason for being here a bit more. I attribute much of the work from our sessions to bringing me to my path today.
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Marie .N
I highly recommend working with Annalee!
Her open, flexible and non-judgmental approach to coaching always made it a safe space for me to explore and take risks. Her sense of observation, curiosity and deep inquiry helped me gain new perspectives and move forward with my projects.
I’ve always felt inspired and empowered after our coaching sessions
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Marisa .V
Coaching partnerships built on solid foundations of trust, like the ones Annalee is known for building, are the bedrock upon which transformation begins and transcendence transpires.
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Denis .T
My favourite thing about working with Annalee is that she has a wide range of effective methods and modalities we can use in our sessions – from the intuitive & esoteric to the practical neuroscientific. Our sessions have promoted natural habits of self-awareness, creativity, productivity & wholeness. Working with Annalee enabled me to tap into the source of my own creative genius and function at a highly energized state.
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