The purpose of this study is to explore and understand the meaning of burnout middle-aged married
female counselors experience. This study tries to understand the meaning of burnout experiences and how
they experience it from a phenomenological perspective. Descriptive phenomenological methods proposed by
Giorgi were used for the analysis of burnout experiences of 7 full-time middle-aged married female
counselors. The study derived 266 meaning units, 80 summarized meaning units, 16 subcategories, and 8
constitutional elements which were considered as the main factors of their burnout experiences. The eight
factors, motivation of counseling factor, personal factor, factor of experience and physical feature of
middle-aged women, client factor, becoming professional factor, family factor, work factor, and resilience
factor, describe the meaning of burnout experiences of middle-aged female counselors. This study was very
meaningful to explore their burnout experiences in depth and to supply them with basic information for
the prevention of counselor's burnout.