If you’re a working professional in Portland, chances are you’ve felt it—the creeping burnout, the mounting pressure to “do it all,” and the nagging sense that your days are running you instead of the other way around.
You may be juggling deadlines, caregiving responsibilities, social expectations, and mental health challenges, all while trying to stay grounded and present. And while traditional counseling can help process the emotional toll, sometimes what you really need is someone to help you build a life that works.
That’s where Everyday Living Skills come in.
What Are Everyday Living Skills?
Our Everyday Living Skills services are rooted in occupational therapy and designed for real-life functionality. It focuses on helping you build routines, create structure, and make lasting behavioral changes that support your well-being.
At its core, it’s about bridging the gap between what you want to do and what you actually do each day.
We focus on skills like:
- Creating sustainable work-life routines
- Managing time and energy with intention
- Prioritizing self-care that doesn’t fall off the list
- Building emotional regulation into your day
- Developing executive functioning strategies that stick
Unlike productivity coaching or generic life coaching, this approach is grounded in trauma-informed, client-centered mental health care.
Why Professionals Burn Out—And What Helps
In Portland’s fast-paced and purpose-driven professional culture, burnout isn’t rare. It’s actually normalized.
Whether you’re working in tech, education, healthcare, or the nonprofit world, the expectations often feel relentless. And if you’re also navigating ADHD, anxiety, trauma history, chronic illness, or neurodivergence, the overwhelm can be even more intense.
Burnout doesn’t just affect your job. It affects your:
- Sleep and rest cycles
- Mood and emotional regulation
- Relationships and boundaries
- Ability to complete daily tasks
- Sense of identity and joy
Everyday Living Skills offer a path back to balance by helping you build systems that support your values, not just your responsibilities.
What Makes Everyday Living Skills Unique?
Traditional counseling is vital, and we fully support it. But when you need functional, day-to-day support for how to live differently, mental health occupational therapy fills that gap.
We focus on doing, not just reflecting. Through Everyday Living Skills, we help you evaluate where you are at the moment, create a strategy for addressing your concerns, and assist you in improving the skills you need day-to-day.
- Need a visual weekly planner that actually works with your energy levels? We’ll design one together.
- Trouble maintaining a morning routine without spiraling into stress? We’ll co-create a simplified system.
- Constantly battling decision fatigue? We’ll explore how to automate or ritualize tasks.
This is therapy that moves with you, not just around you.
Who Is It For?
This kind of therapy is ideal for professionals who are:
- Feeling burned out or disengaged at work
- Struggling with executive functioning or task initiation
- Living with ADHD, anxiety, or trauma
- Trying to balance caregiving, work, and personal time
- Looking for realistic, sustainable changes, not perfection
Whether you’re a therapist, teacher, creative, tech worker, or small business owner, you deserve care that honors how complex your life really is.
You Don’t Have to Figure It Out Alone
You’re not “bad at adulting.” You’re carrying too much, with too little support.
Our approach combines compassionate mental health care with the practical tools of occupational therapy, so you can:
- Reclaim time and space in your day
- Prioritize rest without guilt
- Identify and reduce burnout triggers
- Build systems that align with your unique needs
- Restore a sense of agency over your life
Your Path to Balance Starts Here
In a city like Portland, where burnout is high but healing is possible, you deserve care that meets you where you are and walks with you forward.
Everyday Living Skills aren’t about hustle. They’re about intention. They’re about making your life work for you, not the other way around.
Let’s build a rhythm that supports your whole self, one step at a time.