Therapy for Entrepreneurs & Business Owners

The relentless pace of entrepreneurship often leads to burnout, which comes with emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and lower productivity. The high-stakes, high-speed world of entrepreneurship can gradually wear you down in ways that aren’t always obvious—until one day, you can’t ignore it anymore. 

Many business owners seek therapy when they realize they're no longer enjoying the work they once loved, or when stress begins affecting their physical health and relationships. You’re running on fumes, emotionally checked out, and wondering where the spark went. Maybe you're still performing well on the outside, but inside, you're running on autopilot. 

Despite external success, many entrepreneurs struggle with chronic feelings of inadequacy or fear of being "found out" as a fraud—even (or especially) when you achieving business success. You’ve built something impressive, yet a quiet voice still whispers that it’s all about to fall apart—that maybe you’ve just been lucky, or that someone else could do it better. 

This impostor syndrome can be paralyzing, especially when making important decisions or navigating phases of growth in your company. This kind of self-doubt can be especially disorienting when your outward success doesn’t match your internal experience. In therapy, we’ll unpack the roots of that fear and build a deeper, more grounded sense of self-worth so your confidence no longer feels conditional or fragile.

Business owners often struggle to maintain boundaries between work and personal life. When you’re the one holding everything together, personal needs often fall to the bottom of the list. Over time, partners feel disconnected, friendships fade, and your inner world becomes harder to access. 

Many entrepreneurs come to therapy realizing they’ve become emotionally unavailable—not by intention, but by necessity. As the business consumes more time and energy, many entrepreneurs find themselves increasingly isolated, missing the support they need during challenging times. Together, we’ll work on setting boundaries, strengthening relationships, and creating space for you to be a whole person (and not just a business owner).

When your business is your baby, your mission, and your identity all rolled into one, it’s easy to lose sight of who you are outside of it. Your business has become a central part of your identity, often meaning that any challenges in the business can feel like personal failures. Many entrepreneurs seek therapy when questioning their purpose or feeling trapped by the business they've created. Therapy helps separate your sense of self-worth from business outcomes and reconnect with values beyond professional success.

Entrepreneurs frequently experience heightened anxiety. This can be from constant worry about business performance to panic attacks before important meetings or pitches. The financial uncertainty, responsibility for employees' livelihoods, and pressure to maintain a confident facade can significantly impact mental well-being. It’s often not just "entrepreneurial energy.”

Many business owners don't realize that symptoms like racing thoughts, sleep disturbances, difficulty concentrating, or physical tension are actually manifestations of anxiety that can be addressed through therapy. Left untreated, these issues can evolve into more serious mental health conditions that affect both personal happiness and business decision-making. Therapy helps you build the skills to quiet that inner chaos and respond to challenges from a calmer, healthier, more centered place.

When you’ve built your business on vision and problem-solving, it’s especially painful when those faculties begin to feel dull. Especially when you’re in constant “problem-solving mode,” your creative instincts can shut down. If you find yourself second-guessing every decision, spinning in indecision, or feeling uninspired by the work, therapy can help you understand what’s behind the block (be it fear, self-doubt, mental fatigue, or other factors) and reconnect with your creative, generative self (both at work and in your personal life).

Many entrepreneurs are unconsciously driven by early wounds, where the relentless pursuit of success is fueled by early painful experiences such as poverty, scarcity (be it perceived or actual), parental pressures, neglect, and/or trauma. These patterns can lead to compulsive overwork, difficulty resting, or tying your self-worth entirely to productivity. Therapy can help you examine whether your drive is rooted in fear, survival, or old wounds and support you in creating a life that’s motivated by meaning, rather than compulsion.

The pressure cooker of entrepreneurship can amplify underlying emotional patterns, bringing out emotional extremes, be it frustration, defensiveness, outbursts, or shutting down under stress. Therapy helps increase emotional regulation so you can respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively, especially in moments of high stakes.