This… is for you.
Counselling for teachers and educators, with someone who came to this work from the classroom. Boundaries that hold on a Tuesday, a place to put it all down, and evenings that actually belong to you.
No obligation. Evenings and Sunday afternoons, so you never have to take leave or explain where you're going.
Teachers and Educators…
The bit nobody outside education understands.
It isn't the teaching. It's everything wrapped around it.
It's being on from the moment you walk through the gate. Yard duty, the corridor, the one you're quietly keeping an eye on, the twelve small decisions before the bell has even gone.
It's reading a parent email at 9:47pm and drafting three versions of a reply in your head before you give up and go to bed.
It's marking on the couch with the TV on, not watching it.
It's saying yes to the camp, the committee, the extra rehearsal, because everyone is stretched and you can't be the one who doesn't.
It's carrying a student's home situation home with you, then having nothing left for the people in yours.
It's the Sunday afternoon shift, somewhere around three o'clock, when the weekend stops being the weekend.
And it's the holidays — one week to stop feeling flat, one week that's genuinely good, and one week already bracing for the next term. Then someone tells you how lucky you are to get so much time off.
Being exhausted by it doesn't mean you've stopped caring about it.
Most teachers I speak to have it the other way around. They're tired because they care, and they've kept going long past the point where something needed to change, not from a lack of resilience, but because stepping back felt like letting a class, a colleague or a family down.
You are not failing at a job that a lot of people are quietly struggling to sustain right now.
And wanting your evenings back is not a character flaw. It's a reasonable thing to want, and it's workable.
What we'd actually work on
Boundaries that survive a real week Not "leave work at work." That advice is useless when your work is people. We'll build limits that fit your actual load, your actual leadership team and your actual year level — what you say yes to, what you stop taking on, and how to hold that without a difficult conversation every time.
Somewhere to put it down You hold a safe space for thirty other people all day. This is one hour where you're not the composed one, not the professional, not the person who has to have an answer. You don't need to be articulate about it. You just need somewhere it's allowed to be as heavy as it actually is.
Finishing the day, and not feeling guilty about it There's usually a moment where the workday could end and doesn't. We'll find yours, and build a way to close it — so the evening isn't marking-adjacent time, and rest doesn't come with a running commentary about what you should be doing instead.
You won't have to explain what a bad term feels like.
I'm Jordan. My background is in education, so I already know what a report cycle does to a person, why the holidays don't reset it, and what it costs to be responsible for other people's wellbeing all day.
You won't need to justify why you're tired, translate the acronyms, or listen to someone tell you to try more self-care when the honest answer is that your workload is genuinely unreasonable.
We'll look at what's been happening, the patterns underneath it, and strategies that fit your real circumstances — not an idealised version of them. Some sessions are practical and you leave with something specific to try. Others are just thinking out loud with someone who isn't in your staffroom. Both are useful.
The practical part
"I don't have time." Sessions run in the evenings and on Sunday afternoons. No leave form, no relief teacher, no explaining yourself to anyone. You can choose 30, 45 or 60 minutes, and change it week to week depending on what you've got left.
"Other people have it worse." Most people who contact me aren't in crisis. They're tired, something's been building for a while, and thinking it through alone has stopped getting them anywhere. That's a good enough reason.
"I don't want this getting back to work." This is private practice. It's separate from your school, your line manager and your employer's EAP. Nothing goes on a file at work.
"What if it's not for me?" The first 30 minutes are free and there's no obligation to book anything afterwards. If I think another service would serve you better, I'll say so and point you in the right direction. That's a good outcome, not a failed one.
Fees: 30 minutes $45 · 45 minutes $55 · 60 minutes $65
What I won’t do…
I won't promise to fix it, and I'd be wary of anyone who does. I won't hand you advice dressed up as insight, and I won't suggest you need more resilience when the real problem is the size of the job.
Next term is going to start whether or not something has changed.
You don't need the right words, a diagnosis, or a clear explanation of what's wrong. You just need thirty minutes and no obligation.
Start with a free 30 minute conversation
Book a free chat — evenings and Sundays
Let's make next term a different season