Burnout Coach for Women in Austin, TX
You've worked hard to build a career worth having. Burnout coaching with Shelley Pernot helps high-achieving women recover their energy, their clarity, and their sense of purpose without walking away from everything they have built.
Burnout Isn’t a Character flow
More than 59% of women in the workforce report experiencing burnout, and over half of women in leadership positions say they feel constantly exhausted. That’s not a coincidence.
High-achieving women are conditioned to perform, deliver, and hold everything together, often at the expense of their own energy and wellbeing. At some point, your body and mind stop cooperating. At True North Coaching, we work with women who have or are starting to reach that point and are ready to do something about it.
What a Burnout Coach Actually Does
Burnout coaching isn’t about telling you to rest more, set better boundaries, or download an app. Those things have their place, but they rarely address what is actually driving the issue. A burnout coach helps you understand the deeper patterns, beliefs, and behaviors that are keeping you stuck in a cycle of depletion, and then helps you build a different way forward.
Burnout coaching is a fusion of practices Shelley has carefully honed and developed over the last twenty years and includes a mixture of career coaching, life coaching, spiritual coaching, leadership coaching, emotional healing and time management and mindfulness techniques that are specifically geared at helping you address the root cause of what’s keeping you feeling empty and unfulfilled or spinning out of control.
Working with Shelley means getting to the root of what is fueling your burnout, not just managing the symptoms of it. Sessions combine focused one-on-one coaching with mindfulness-based practices drawn from Shelley's training as a certified yoga instructor, giving you both the insight and the practical tools to make lasting change.
Common Signs of Burnout
You Shouldn't Ignore
Burnout rarely announces itself. These patterns are easy to dismiss — until they aren't.
You're still performing but privately falling apart
On paper everything looks fine. You are hitting your goals and showing up for your team. But behind closed doors you are exhausted, disconnected, and not sure how much longer you can keep this pace.
You've lost the sense of purpose that used to drive you
You worked hard to get where you are, and somewhere along the way the work stopped feeling meaningful. You are going through the motions and wondering if this is just what success feels like.
You know something has to change but you do not know where to start
You have tried rest, vacations, productivity systems, and self-care routines. None of it has touched the real problem. You need someone who can help you see what you cannot see on your own.
You think the solution lies in quitting your job
You're worried you're going to have to give up everything you built. Not necessarily. The solution often lies in the energy we bring to work, not the work itself. What if work felt energising instead of draining?
Meet Your Burnout Coach
Shelley Pernot did not learn about burnout from a textbook. She lived it. After years of climbing the corporate ladder, working in risk management in London, and achieving every external marker of success, she woke up one day completely numb, depleted and not sure why. That experience became the foundation of her coaching practice and the subject of her first book, Running on Empty: An Irreverent Guide to Filling Up with Mindfulness.
Today, Shelley brings more than a decade of coaching experience, a deep knowledge of what burnout actually looks like from the inside, and a formal credential stack that is rare in this space. She works with high-achieving women who are ready to stop performing wellness and start experiencing it.
How Burnout Coaching Works
Free Consultation
Your first step is a no-pressure 30-minute conversation to talk about where you are, what you are carrying, and whether working together is the right fit. There is no pitch and no obligation.
Root Cause Exploration
Burnout rarely has a single cause. In the early sessions, Shelley works with you to understand the specific patterns, beliefs, and circumstances that have brought you to this point, so the work targets the real problem rather than the surface symptoms.
One-on-One Coaching Sessions
Through regular 1:1 virtual sessions, you and Shelley will work through both the practical and personal dimensions of your burnout. This includes building new skills and perspectives while addressing the deeper drivers of your exhaustion or discontent.
Mindfulness Integration
Woven throughout the coaching is a grounded, practical approach to mindfulness drawn from Shelley's years of yoga training and teaching. These are tools designed to help you regulate your nervous system, stay present under pressure, and sustain the progress you are making between sessions.
Burnout Coaching Package
Burnout Coaching
Specialized fusion of career coaching, leadership coaching, time management techniques, spiritual coaching and wellness coaching for high performing female perfectionists who want to lower their stress and feel more fulfillment in the work they do.
This package includes:
Enneagram Assessment including a detailed report and a comprehensive 1.5 hour deep drive debrief
10 one on one coaching sessions that can be used over a nine month period
Total Package Price
$3,795
What Clients Are Saying
I highly recommend Shelley and True North Coaching. The care, time and attention Shelley devoted to me and the process during my Career Coaching sessions was invaluable. She leads with compassion and I gained so many insights about myself and my career past, present and future. If you are feeling stuck or not sure how you want to move forward, do yourself a favor and work with Shelley!
Shelley is really excellent. She will help you diagnose your strengths and weaknesses, learn how to navigate tricky interpersonal dynamics with grace, and plan (and execute!) concrete steps to improve your life and career. Shelley provides the tools to build a new framework and guides with compassion and clear-eyed honesty.
It was a privilege to work with Shelley! The process was structured and yet flexible enough to meet needs as they arose. Shelley helped me to grow, learn more about myself, and to really achieve what I set out to accomplish. She won't let you down!
Having the opportunity to have Shelley as my Leadership Coach could not have come at a better time in my career. Shelley helped me navigate joining the team and determine who I wanted to be as a leader. Working with Shelley not only has affected my professional life in a positive way, but also my personal life. I highly recommend working with Shelley.
I have been working with Shelley for the past 2 years on my leadership development journey. She helped me slow down, recognize certain behaviors, and understand that I can pivot in the moment. Ultimately, my work with Shelley turned out to be so much more than what I expected. Her approach to coaching was exactly what I needed.
If you're used to being coached in sports, Shelley is a true coach. The best kind of coach. The coach that knows your potential and gives you the support and guidance to realize that potential. You will achieve after partnering with Shelley.
Am I Burned Out?
Take this simple quiz to discover your current level of burnout and how burnout coaching can help
Frequently Asked Questions
Burnout coaching is a forward-focused process that helps you identify the root causes of your exhaustion or discontent and build a sustainable path toward recovery and renewed purpose. Therapy typically focuses on healing past experiences and addressing clinical mental health conditions. Coaching is present and future focused, working on the skills, mindset shifts, and behavioral changes that will help you move forward. Shelley is not a therapist, and coaching is not a substitute for mental health treatment. Many clients find that the two approaches complement each other well.
No. Many of Shelley's clients come to coaching before they have fully hit the wall, because they can feel themselves heading in that direction and want to course-correct before things get worse. Burnout coaching works whether you are in the middle of a full burnout or simply feeling chronically depleted and disconnected from your work. The earlier you address it, the more options you have.
Most clients work with Shelley for six to nine months, though the timeline varies depending on where you are starting from and what you want to accomplish. Burnout did not develop overnight, and lasting recovery takes more than a few sessions. Shelley builds her work around that reality rather than promising quick fixes that do not hold.
Burnout coaching with Shelley is conducted virtually via video sessions, which makes it accessible no matter where you are located. Many clients find that virtual sessions fit more naturally into a demanding schedule, which matters when you are already stretched thin.
Shelley works primarily with high-achieving women in professional and leadership roles, including executives, managers, directors, and entrepreneurs who are experiencing burnout or want to prevent it. Her clients are driven, capable women who are not looking for someone to tell them to slow down, but rather a coach who understands the real complexity of performing at a high level and helps them do it more sustainably.
Burnout coaching is specifically focused on understanding and addressing the cycle of chronic depletion that comes from sustained high performance. While general life coaching covers a broad range of goals and life areas, Shelley's burnout coaching goes deep on the specific patterns, inner drivers, and dynamics that cause high-achieving women to burn out. It is focused, targeted work with a clear purpose.
Ready to Stop Surviving and Start Living Again?
Burnout is not a life sentence, and pushing through it alone is not the only option. If you are ready to understand what is actually driving your exhaustion and build a different way forward, the first step is a conversation. Schedule a free consultation with Shelley today.