Depression Therapy in Newmarket for Grief, Burnout & Life Transitions

Struggling with emotional exhaustion, grief, or high-functioning depression? Kristin Michie Psychotherapy offers tailored therapy in Newmarket for students, parents, professionals, and caregivers navigating life’s most difficult transitions.

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Burnout & Emotional Exhaustion Support

Feeling emotionally depleted from caregiving, parenting, or chronic workplace stress? Therapy can help you recover from burnout and re-establish boundaries—especially if you're a working professional, overwhelmed mother, or high achiever.

Life Transitions & Identity Loss

Navigating divorce, job loss, a move, or starting a new chapter as a student or parent? Therapy for life transitions can help you process emotional shifts and rediscover a sense of direction and identity.

About Kristin Michie Psychotherapy

Depression doesn’t always look like sadness—it can feel like burnout, chronic stress, grief, or a loss of purpose. Whether you’re overwhelmed by parenting pressures, recovering from job loss, grieving a pet or loved one, or navigating cultural disconnection as a student or newcomer, Kristin Michie provides compassionate, individualized therapy in Newmarket.

Kristin specializes in supporting high-achieving adults, students, caregivers, and working professionals facing perfectionism, emotional exhaustion, and identity loss. Using a trauma-informed, integrative approach—including CBT, ACT, and psychodynamic therapy—she helps clients process difficult emotions and reconnect with themselves.

In-person sessions are available in Newmarket, with flexible online counselling offered for grief, life transitions, and burnout across Ontario.

Depression Therapy Services in Newmarket

Grief & Loss Therapy

Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one, a childhood home, a pet, or the life you once had, Kristin offers safe, supportive grief counselling in Newmarket. Therapy also supports grief from cultural loss or the end of a significant relationship.

Perfectionism & High-Functioning Depression

You may look like you're doing fine, but underneath, the pressure to be perfect and constantly succeed feels suffocating. Kristin supports clients who struggle with unrealistic expectations, internalized pressure, and performance-based self-worth.

Student & Young Adult Support

Students—especially international or first-generation—often feel immense pressure to succeed while grieving cultural or family disconnection. Kristin offers therapy for academic burnout, adjustment stress, and grief in students and young adults.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Kristin works with high-functioning depression, grief-based depression, burnout, emotional exhaustion, perfectionism, and adjustment-related depression.

  • Yes. Kristin offers online depression therapy and grief counselling for clients across Newmarket and Ontario. Virtual sessions are especially helpful for busy professionals and students.

  • Absolutely. Therapy can help you process career burnout, workplace anxiety, and feelings of stagnation. Many professionals seek support for emotional exhaustion or after job loss.

  • Yes. Kristin provides therapy for various types of grief, including miscarriage, pet loss, and disenfranchised grief that isn’t always acknowledged by others.

  • Yes. Kristin works with many high-achieving clients who struggle with perfectionism, chronic dissatisfaction, and burnout. Therapy can help you untangle self-worth from performance.

Find Relief from Burnout, Grief, or Depression

You don’t have to carry it all alone. Whether you’re dealing with emotional exhaustion, a major loss, or the pressure to be everything to everyone, support is available. Book a free consultation with Kristin Michie Psychotherapy to get started with virtual or in-person therapy in Newmarket.