In-depth clinical learning on a key area of practice, guided by leading experts.
Event overview:
Work addiction and burnout are often socially rewarded yet clinically significant patterns. Over functioning can be rooted in identity, attachment and worth, where productivity becomes regulation and achievement becomes protection. The impact on health, relationships and meaning in life can be profound.
This 2 hour clinical webinar explores work related addiction through psychological, relational and neurobiological lenses, equipping you to work with clarity, confidence and ethical balance.
We will examine:
- The distinction between healthy commitment and compulsive over functioning
- Perfectionism, chronic over responsibility and identity fusion with work
- Productivity as regulation within the nervous system
- Relational and family impact of work driven patterns
- Burnout, collapse and the cycle of overdrive and depletion
We will look at work addiction in the context of ADHD and autism, where over‑working can become a way to cope with shame, executive‑function challenges and fears of being ‘found out’.
The session will support you to distinguish between healthy structure that supports neurodivergent nervous systems and compulsive over‑functioning that leads to burnout and addiction patterns.
Clinical Takeaway
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Confidently differentiate dedication from compulsion
- Recognise when work is functioning as attachment strategy or emotional regulation
- Formulate burnout and over functioning within trauma and nervous system frameworks
- Work with perfectionism and chronic responsibility without shaming ambition
- Support clients in building sustainable patterns without dismantling purpose
- Intervene actively rather than colluding with socially sanctioned overwork
This webinar forms part of The Addiction Series
The Addiction Series is a five‑part Grove Series CPD course on addiction across porn and sex, alcohol, social media and screens, drugs and work. You can book this event on its own for £30, choose a select few, or purchase all 5 webinars together for £120. (Prices inclusive of VAT).
Dates and Times
All Wednesdays, 17:30–19:30 (UK time)
