Therapy for entrepreneurs

A therapist who specializes in working with entrepreneurs and business owners helps you navigate the emotional and psychological realities of leadership, including chronic stress, burnout, decision fatigue, relationship strain, and identity shifts that often come with building something of your own.

Rather than focusing only on surface-level stress management, this work explores the deeper patterns driving how you lead, relate, and push yourself. The goal is not just to “cope,” but instead to develop greater self-understanding, emotional resilience, and clarity. Over time, therapy for business owners can help you run your business and your life from a more grounded, sustainable place.

Entrepreneurs often come to therapy feeling successful on the outside but depleted or stuck internally. Common themes include chronic stress, burnout, decision fatigue, relationship strain, loneliness at the top, perfectionism, difficulty slowing down, and many other concerns.

Many also grapple with identity questions, especially when their sense of self becomes tightly tied to their business. Therapy provides space to unpack these experiences, reconnect with values, and build a more sustainable way of working and living.

Business coaching typically focuses on strategies, goals, and performance. Therapy goes deeper. Rather than offering external advice or simplistic frameworks, psychotherapy helps you more deeply understand the internal patterns shaping how you lead, relate, respond to pressure, and more.

Many entrepreneurs have already worked with coaches or consultants. Therapy offers something different: space to explore burnout, identity, emotional dynamics, and longstanding habits that don’t shift through tactics alone. The work is less about optimization and more about insight, resilience, and lasting change—both professionally and personally.

While executive coaching often focuses on business strategies, leadership tactics, and external goals, our therapy focuses on the internal world of the founder. We explore the unconscious drivers, emotional patterns, and personal history that influence how you lead, handle pressure, and relate to others. This depth-oriented work complements coaching by addressing the psychological roots that strategy alone cannot fix.

Entrepreneurs are exceptionally skilled problem-solvers. It’s part of what makes you successful. But stress and burnout aren’t usually technical problems with quick fixes. They’re often tied to long-standing emotional patterns, pressure cycles, and ways of relating to yourself and others that developed over time.

If logic alone could resolve this, you likely would have figured it out already.

Therapy offers a different kind of support: a space to slow down, reflect, and understand what’s driving the exhaustion beneath the surface. Together, we look at the deeper dynamics shaping how you work, lead, and carry responsibility so that change becomes possible at a root level, rather than just temporarily.

This is a common concern, wherein many entrepreneurs worry that addressing anxiety or burnout will dull their edge.

In practice, the opposite is usually true. Therapy helps separate healthy ambition from the pressure, fear, or overdrive that often fuels chronic stress. Rather than pushing yourself through adrenaline alone, you begin to lead from a place of greater clarity, intention, and emotional steadiness.

Most clients find they don’t lose their motivation, but instead, they gain access to a more sustainable form of it. Decision-making becomes clearer, relationships feel less reactive, and work no longer has to come at the expense of your wellbeing.

Yes, absolutely. Confidentiality is foundational to this work. As a licensed clinical psychologist, I’m bound by strict legal and ethical standards to protect your privacy.

I practice exclusively via secure telehealth and do not participate with insurance panels. If you choose not to submit out-of-network claims, this provides an additional layer of discretion, as no mental health diagnosis or treatment information is shared with third parties.

Many entrepreneurs, executives, and business owners find this especially important. It allows space to speak openly about leadership pressures, finances, relationships, and internal struggles without worrying about professional repercussions or reputation. Therapy is one of the few places where you don’t have to perform. You can simply be your honest self.

Session fees vary depending on the provider and session length. I’m happy to share current rates when we connect directly.

I am an out-of-network provider, which means payment is due at the time of service. Many clients choose this arrangement because it allows for greater privacy, flexibility, and depth of work without the limitations often imposed by insurance companies.

Depending on your specific plan, your insurance may reimburse a portion of the fee through out-of-network benefits. My office can typically assist with submitting claims on your behalf to make that process easier.

If you’d like, we can review how this works during your consultation so you have a clear understanding of what to expect.

Our practice focuses on depth-oriented therapy, rather than quick symptom relief. While many clients feel some immediate benefit from having a confidential space to speak openly, the deeper work is about understanding the emotional and relational patterns that contribute to chronic stress and burnout.

This is not a short-term, surface-level approach. Over time, therapy helps you relate differently to pressure, responsibility, and yourself. This helps to create changes that extend beyond work into your relationships and overall sense of wellbeing. It’s a gradual, insight-driven process designed to support lasting growth, not temporary fixes.

Yes. The phrase "it’s lonely at the top" is a reality for many business owners. Many founders carry a quiet sense of isolation, feeling unable to be fully open with employees, investors, or even loved ones about the pressures they hold. Leadership often comes with responsibility that has nowhere to land.

Therapy offers a confidential, judgment-free space where you can speak honestly about the emotional toll of running a business—the uncertainty, the weight of decisions, and the parts of yourself that don’t have room to show up elsewhere. For many entrepreneurs, simply having a place to be real about these experiences brings relief, perspective, and a deeper sense of connection.

We provide a strictly confidential, private space where you can process the heavy weight of decision-making and the emotional toll of leadership without fear of judgment or professional repercussions.

Yes. We work exclusively via secure telehealth, which allows for consistency even when your schedule or location changes.

Many entrepreneurs travel frequently or have unpredictable days. Online sessions make it possible to stay connected to the work without disrupting your routine, whether you’re based in Santa Monica, elsewhere in California or Texas, or on the road somewhere else. Clients often appreciate being able to maintain continuity during busy seasons without sacrificing privacy or depth.

For high-achieving professionals, this flexibility makes therapy both realistic and sustainable alongside demanding leadership roles.