Functional Wellness Practitioner and Burnout Specialist

@ Break Thru Burnout

Elizabeth Gaines is a Functional Health Practitioner and Burnout Recovery Expert that specializes in understanding how stress and disempowerment lead the body out of balance and into disease.

Certified through Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, Elizabeth combines lab testing that analyzes the body’s core systems with holistic lifestyle changes to bring about personalized & long-lasting healing to her clients.

Elizabeth is a recovering co-dependent and a survivor of emotional abuse. Driven by a belief that health is the ultimate form of self-empowerment, she helps people in support roles reclaim their energy and tackle the root cause of their health issues so they can return to their naturally vibrant state.

Reiki Master and Meditation Guide @ Katie Pitcher Reiki

Katie specializes in anxiety, depression and corporate burnout. While she is trained in trauma-informed Reiki, due to her background in corporate, Katie is intimately familiar with the stressors of that lifestyle. Having personally experienced burnout, Reiki and meditation saved her from it.

Reiki is something that can calm anxieties and relieve the stress of everyday life. As for emotional healing, Reiki can help with that, too. Emotions may arise as past traumas are released, but Katie will be there supporting you. Reiki is also known to help with physical pain.

Megan VanMeter, MA, LPC-AT/S, ATR-BC

Licensed Professional Counselor – Art Therapist

Why burn out when you can burn bright? I provide online art therapy to helping professionals who identify with burnout in Austin and the Lone Star State.

Being a helping professional means there’s a heavy emotional workload in your daily endeavors.  You hear intense stories and see intense things.  These put you at risk for compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, and secondary traumatic stress.

And then there’s burnout.  Burnout takes those other conditions and sends them into the perfect storm via unrealistic administrative burdens, unreasonable operating guidelines, and unsustainable working conditions.  The end result is a darkening of mood and motivation.

Burnout is both a professional and personal trauma. It eclipses all aspects of your life, making you vulnerable to problems with others and problems with yourself.  But burnout doesn’t have to be the end of your relationships and your career.

I’m Megan, a board-certified registered art therapist and Texas licensed professional counselor with an art therapy specialization, and I first began offering support to helping professionals struggling with burnout in 2013.  In 2021 I established a full-time private practice to fill the void among clinicians who are prepared to treat burnout.  Burnout has a lot in common with anxiety and depression but has a completely different origin, so it requires a different approach.

I’ve helped professionals like you rise from the ashes of burnout through creative mental activity. Art therapy is one of psychotherapy’s original embodied and experiential professions, and it recruits a person’s eyes and hands (visual perception and somatosensory processing) to rouse and engage creative mental activity at physical, emotional, and intellectual levels.  The end result is an integrated you, as your nervous system learns to achieve harmony and flow between your inner world and the world around you.

Are you tired of the burnout-induced clash between what’s happening inside you and what’s expected of you in your professional role? Then please visit MeganVanMeter.com to schedule a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation and learn more about how art therapy can help you re-create what burnout has destroyed.

I’m happy to share my light with you; you don’t have to face burnout alone in the dark.