The fawn response is a lesser-known trauma pattern that quietly drives burnout in high-functioning professionals. Here's how it shows up in leadership roles.

Burnout isn’t always loud. For many high-functioning clients, it arrives quietly: after months or years of overriding the body’s cues. What looks like resilience on the outside can often be structural dissociation on the inside. In this piece, we explore how psychosomatic coaching and parts work help practitioners recognise dissociation not just in collapse, but in over-adaptation, over-giving, and the relentless drive to keep going.