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In this paper I explore the stages of shock, adjustment and grief involved in trying to offer psychotherapy to children and adolescents in the first wave of the UK Covid 19 pandemic. I discuss the loss of the live experience alongside the absence of my colleagues due to the transition to remote working. I touch on Freud’s paper ‘Mourning and melancholia’ and consider how losing the physical presence of patients and colleagues in time led to what the American psychologist Freudenberger termed‘ burn-out.’ I discuss Freudenberger’s concept and propose that although we did show signs and symptoms of burn-out it never became a chronic condition but was episodic in nature. I suggest that we have been living through a time when we have been confronted by personal and collective anxieties about death and dying. I touch on the idea of ‘resilience’ and my observation that it is founded on interdependence. I also suggest that we can be helped by our training, analysis and supervision and need to use these in conscious ways in order to look out for ourselves at a time when there are very real external fears and anxieties.