If your days feel like an endless check-list of obligations, burnout isn't a surprise - it's a guarantee. The Burnout Antidote blends psychological theory (T.A) with actionable real-world tools. You will analyse and pinpoint the exact mechanisms driving your exhaustion and learn how to end the cycle of burnout - in a warm interactive small-group setting.

The Burnout Antidote

Course Description

If your days feel like an endless list of obligations and you're constantly running on empty, this practical course will help you understand why. 

Rather than offering generic self-care advice, The Burnout Antidote explores the psychological patterns that contribute to chronic stress and burnout, giving you practical tools to recognise them and create lasting change. 

In a warm, supportive small-group environment, you'll gain a deeper understanding of how your thoughts, behaviours and nervous system interact, and learn strategies to restore balance, choice and wellbeing.

Drawing on the principles of Transactional Analysis (T.A.) alongside practical real-world techniques, you'll explore the science of stress, the cycle of burnout, personality patterns and the psychological drivers that can keep people trapped in exhaustion. 

Through guided discussion, self-reflection and practical exercises, you'll identify the habits and beliefs that may be contributing to burnout and discover healthier ways to respond. 

Whether you're feeling overwhelmed at work, home or both, this course provides practical insights to help you regain energy, resilience and a greater sense of control.

Please bring a notebook and pen.

Course Structure

This interactive course combines tutor presentations, guided discussions, self-reflection activities and practical exercises to help students better understand the psychology of burnout. 

Students will explore how chronic stress affects the brain and nervous system before examining the cycle of burnout and the role that boundaries, autonomy and behavioural patterns play in maintaining or reducing stress. 

The course also introduces personality mapping using the principles of Transactional Analysis, helping students identify the internal patterns and psychological drivers that influence their responses to pressure. 

Throughout the course, students will develop practical strategies that can be applied in everyday life to support healthier choices, improved wellbeing and greater resilience.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Understand how chronic stress affects the brain and nervous system
• Recognise the common signs and stages of burnout
• Identify psychological patterns that contribute to ongoing stress and exhaustion
• Develop greater awareness of their own personality patterns and behavioural drivers
• Apply practical strategies to establish healthier boundaries and reduce stress
• Build greater resilience and a stronger sense of personal choice and autonomy
• Develop a personalised understanding of how to interrupt the cycle of burnout.

Your tutor is Marina Tsioumanis

Marina has been teaching at WEA since 2026. 

Marina Tsioumanis is an Educational Transactional Analyst, with over ten years of teaching experience in nationally accredited counselling courses. 

She is also an award-winning author. She works clinically with individuals, couples, and families at Thrive with Therapy, Norwood.