What would be an effective treatment?

A feassible approach
Now, is burnout something which is to be treated easily or not? At least a great number of approaches have been described so far. You can easily imagine that there will be a winning approach just for you. Just to name the most common: psycho-education, relaxation-training, stressmanagement, cognitive therapy, lifestyle-improvement, assertivity-training, social skills-training and selfhelp- or peergroups. Now these approaches are not all in the same line and are not readily to be compared to each other. If the original analysis is completed client and therapist together may decide which approach might be the most useful, given the particular situation. And then still: a skilled therapist will probably not want to work with just one approach, he will strive to offer a mixture to size. The most usual mix here will contain a cognitive approach (you examine together if everything you think about your situation, is realistic), there will be some attention for learning how to relax and the client's general lifestyle will be examined.

Effectivity
There is quite some research going on as to how effective all these various approaches are. Whereas burnout is such a young, but nevertheless very serious social and mental problem, we will not see the end of this research shortly. If you are a client yourself, you can easily check for yourself whether you are in good hands by looking at the chosen approach. If it is not one-sided but goes into several aspects of your problem, you can safely suppose that something good will come out of it.