For humanitarian workers, international staff, diplomats, NGO professionals, and others navigating emotional exhaustion, uncertainty, responsibility, and the psychological weight of the work.
“I feel increasingly drained and unable to recover.”
The accumulation of stress takes a growing toll on my physical and emotional well-being. Rest becomes less restorative, and fatigue lingers even after time off.
More and more of my time, energy, and attention are devoted to it. It becomes harder to switch off, leaving little room for rest, personal relationships, or the activities that help me recharge.
No matter how hard I try, there always seems to be something else that requires my attention. No matter how much I do, it rarely feels enough.
Even when circumstances are beyond my control, I feel I cannot show vulnerability. Within a culture that values resilience and self-sacrifice, admitting that I am struggling can feel unacceptable.
This process helps you identify the situations and factors that gradually drain your energy, motivation, and well-being, and gives you practical tools to address them with greater clarity, emotional stability, and a stronger sense of control.
Each therapeutic process is adapted to your situation, your goals, and the context you are living and working in.
With adapted training in decision making, you will feel more competent in your job, reducing the stress caused by the demands of the context.
Through therapeutic sessions that cover different aspects of your work environment, you will acquire skills to communicate adequately with supervisors and colleagues, clarify day-to-day tasks, and establish basic limits that help you better dispose of your time. You can strengthen communication and boundaries, navigate demanding environments, and reconnect with the personal resources that help you recover perspective.
You will feel more capable and confident at work.
You will gain greater clarity about priorities, limits, and expectations.
You will strengthen communication and boundaries.
You can navigate demanding environments with more perspective.
The aim is to face the demands of the environment without so much emotional wear.
You can start with an assessment consultation. Write when you are ready.
Dr. Sara Beneit is a medical doctor expert in Ericksonian Psychotherapy with years of experience living and working as an expatriate in conflictive and emotionally intense environments.
She has shared successes and difficulties with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, facing the clash between the expectations of the humanitarian ideal and a raw and violent reality.
Here she offers what she has learned and lived, what she knows to help you live your experience better, because it is possible to do it differently.
The first session is designed to help us gain a clear understanding of your current situation, concerns, priorities, and goals.
A 90-minute focused space to explore what is going on, identify key emotional and relational patterns, and define a therapeutic direction adapted to your context.
Together, we explore the factors that may be affecting your wellbeing, emotional balance, relationships, work life, or overall quality of life.
Rather than focusing only on symptoms, we look at the patterns, circumstances, and personal strengths that shape your experience.
These 75-minute sessions provide a safe and consistent space to explore challenges in greater depth, gain new perspectives, and work with practical tools you can apply in daily life.
Sessions are available in the language you are most comfortable expressing complex emotional realities in.
Choose the level of support that best fits your current situation, needs and goals.
90 minutes
5 Follow-up Sessions
8 Follow-up Sessions
Not sure where to begin? Most clients start with an Initial Consultation & Assessment. Together we will explore your situation and decide whether a single consultation, individual follow-up sessions, or a more structured therapeutic pathway would be most helpful for you.
Yes. This is an independent therapeutic practice with no connection to employers, HR departments, or institutions. What is shared in session stays in session, protected by professional confidentiality.
No. Many people arrive long before crisis point — when they notice exhaustion is not lifting, boundaries are blurring, or the emotional weight is quietly accumulating. Earlier is often better.
Online sessions are designed for exactly this reality. We work around rotations, missions, time zones, and unpredictable schedules. The goal is continuity, not complication.
No. Dr. Beneit knows the structures, pressures, and emotional realities of humanitarian and international systems from direct experience. You will not spend sessions translating your world.
It is not weakness to acknowledge that the work asks too much. It is clarity. And clarity is where sustainable change begins.
If your life is shaped more by living alongside this work than working directly inside it, you may feel more at home here.
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