Jaw tension & shallow breath
Chronic muscle tightness or shallow breathing that doesn't resolve with rest alone.
Burnout Recovery Coaching · Los Angeles
Burnout recovery coaching in Los Angeles: your body already knows
Therapists, healers, and high-achievers reach burnout from giving more than they've been replenished, not from laziness. Burnout recovery coaching at Word of Mouth combines reiki, breathwork, and nervous-system regulation with Jaime and Yonatan Elkayam, so you learn to work from overflow instead of fumes. Sessions address emotional exhaustion, compassion fatigue, and the plateau that can follow years of talk therapy.
Complimentary discovery call · In-person & virtual · Private Los Angeles studio
Certified Reiki Master Teachers
Husband-and-wife practitioner team
The Approach
How do I know if I need a burnout coach or a therapist?
Therapy is licensed clinical care for diagnosable mental-health conditions and past-trauma processing. Burnout recovery coaching works alongside it, addressing the nervous-system depletion, chronic exhaustion, and loss of motivation that insight alone doesn't always move. NIMH's overview of caring for your mental health is a useful companion resource for understanding where that line sits.
Jaime and Yonatan Elkayam are Certified Reiki Master Teachers, Certified Breathwork Facilitators and coaches, not licensed mental-health therapists. Many clients already work with a therapist and come to us for the body-based layer: breathwork, somatic grounding, energy work, and accountability coaching, the part that talk alone doesn't always reach.
Recognize It
Signs of burnout coaching can help address
Burnout isn't always dramatic. Sometimes it shows up as a low hum you can't quite name.
Emotional exhaustion
Feeling drained after work even when you genuinely love what you do.
A talk-therapy plateau
You have the insight. The body just hasn't caught up to it yet.
Compassion fatigue
The residue of holding space for clients, patients, or family members, week after week.
Loss of motivation
Work that used to feel meaningful now feels flat, or hard to access at all.
Overwhelm & disconnection
Operating from a depleted reserve, even when nothing specific has gone wrong.
Who We Work With
Why therapists, healers, and high-achievers burn out differently
Therapists & mental-health professionals
You hold emotional weight for clients all week. Compassion fatigue and secondary stress are occupational realities, not personal failures. Reiki and somatic work help discharge what accumulates.
Coaching for therapists →Healers, caregivers & space holders
Those who hold the world often forget they need holding too. Your capacity to give is only as sustainable as your own replenishment.
High-achievers, founders & creatives
When identity collapses into productivity, rest feels like failure. We work with the nervous-system patterns keeping you in overdrive even after you've cleared your calendar.
Nervous system coaching →
Your Session
What a burnout recovery session looks like
1
Attunement check-in
A brief somatic check-in lets us meet you exactly where you are today, not where you were last week.
2
Breathwork & somatic grounding
Conscious breathing practices regulate the nervous system directly. This isn't preparation for the session, it is the session.
3
Reiki energy work
Hands-on or hands-off reiki supports the energetic layer of burnout, the depletion that lives in the body even after sleep and vacation haven't helped.
4
Coaching integration
We close with goal-oriented coaching: boundaries, sustainable practices, and the specific decisions you want to work on. You leave with something concrete, not just something felt.
Every session combines breath, body, energy, and coaching in one 90-minute session, so you work on the whole self rather than doing maintenance on each part alone.
Alongside, Not Instead
How our approach differs
We don't ask you to leave your therapist at the door. Our coaching is designed to complement clinical care, the nervous-system and body-based layer that talk therapy doesn't always address on its own.
One roof, four modalities
Breath, body, energy, and coaching in a single session, so you work on the whole self rather than doing maintenance on each part individually.
Alongside your therapist, not instead
Our coaching is designed to sit next to clinical care, and we're glad to coordinate with your existing therapist when that's useful.
Practitioners who've worked with practitioners
"As a licensed clinical mental health therapist as well as a Reiki practitioner for over two decades, my experience with Word of Mouth was profoundly nurturing as well as professional and poignant. I walked away both feeling wiser and calmer while also more present and uplifted." · Hyim Ross
In Their Words
What clients experience
Brett Farkas
My session with Yonatan was very impactful. I was truly moved by his warm, gentle, and intuitive nature, and his genuine openness, which enabled the session to share a very connected and intimate space together. Overall, the physical aspect of the Reiki paired with the talking integration of my personal intention was very therapeutic, both physically and mentally. I noticed later that week how it was like a pressure valve that had been released, moving the blocked energy around and out of my body. I felt clearer, lighter, and more positive. Many thanks to Yonatan, I recommend his work highly.
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Eric Sagotsky
I’ve been working with Jaime for over a year now. Her space is super calming and I find myself automatically smiling when I walk in the door. If you’re looking for a blend of fitness, mindfulness and life coaching with a healthy dose of relaxation, this is the place for you. I used to spend my time treating different parts of the body and mind in various places not considering the whole. Working at Word of Mouth has shown me a different way of approaching wellness uniting mind, body, emotion, spirit and community and it feels stickier and more transformative than other things I’ve done in the past. I can’t recommend it enough.
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HYIM VIBE
As a licensed clinical mental health therapist as well as a Reiki practitioner for over two decades, I must say that my experience with Jamie was profoundly nurturing as well as professional and poignant. I walked away both feeling wiser and calmer while also more present and uplifted. I will definitely be referring clients to her work as part of their healing journey and I will be back to Jamie and Word of Mouth. Thank you again.
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Good Questions
Burnout recovery coaching, answered
Honest answers about cost, therapy, and what a burnout recovery session can and cannot do.
If you're dealing with a diagnosable mental-health condition, active trauma, or suicidal ideation, please work with a licensed therapist first. Burnout recovery coaching is for people who have foundational mental-health support in place and need a body-based, action-oriented complement. Many clients work with both at once, and we're happy to coordinate with your existing therapist.
One-on-one coaching is $4,500 for twelve weeks, in three payments of $1,500 every four weeks, or $4,200 if you pay in full. Your free discovery call is where we work out whether it fits.
Yes, and many of our clients do. Our approach is designed to sit alongside clinical therapy, not compete with it. The somatic and energy-work layer we offer addresses what talk therapy doesn't always reach.
Most clients describe it as a low-grade heaviness that doesn't lift: jaw tension, shallow breathing, a flatness where motivation used to be, feeling emotionally tired even after rest. These are nervous-system signals, not character flaws.
The work unfolds over the twelve weeks. Burnout that accumulated over months or years rarely reverses in a single appointment.
No. Our coaching programs are consumer-pay only and are not billed to insurance. We do not accept insurance and cannot provide superbills. If cost is a factor, please ask about our payment plans on the discovery call.
Yes. Therapists, bodyworkers, coaches, caregivers, and other practitioners make up a meaningful portion of our coaching clients, including our Coaching for Therapists program.
Ready When You Are
Ready to work from overflow instead of fumes?
Burnout doesn't have to stay this way. The discovery call is free, no-obligation, and not a sales pitch.
More Ways In
Other coaching programs at Word of Mouth
Coaching for Therapists
Built for licensed therapists moving through burnout, compassion fatigue, or a plateau in their own practice.
Coaching for therapists →Reiki for Burnout
A single reiki session focused on nervous-system regulation and genuine rest, no ongoing program required.
Reiki for burnout →Nervous System Coaching
For high-achievers, creatives, and caregivers whose nervous systems are stuck in overdrive.
Nervous system coaching →Holistic Coaching
Our full coaching practice for individuals, therapists, creatives, and couples across Los Angeles.
Holistic coaching →Book a Discovery Call
Free, no-obligation. We'll map what burnout recovery coaching could look like for you.
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