Therapy for entrepreneurs

Understanding the Pressures of Entrepreneurship

For many entrepreneurs, heavy workloads and burnout aren’t just a phase. They’ve become a way of life. Constant risk, long hours, isolation, and pressure to keep innovating take a real toll. Maybe you told yourself things would get easier once you hit certain goals, but even as you reach every milestone, anxiety, overworking, and poor work–life balance have become a way of life. 

If this is your experience, you’re not alone. Nearly 88% of entrepreneurs reported at least one mental health issue. These issues often seep into identity, relationships, health, and how you “show up” in the rest of your life. That’s why therapy for business owners can be so powerful.

How a Business Therapist Can Help You

Working with a therapist who understands the unique challenges of entrepreneurship can help you reclaim the joy and purpose in your work while creating space for life outside of your business.

In business therapy, we focus on how you’re working, not just how you’re feeling. We look closely at the roles you’re holding, what you’re saying yes to, and where you’re stretching past your limits, so you can start to shift out of constant crisis mode into something steadier and more sustainable.

Over time, business therapy is about expanding your capacity, not just at work, but in your life more broadly. That means discovering how to pause before reacting, to recover from setbacks, and to make choices that line up with your true values rather than with fear or pressure alone. The aim isn’t to make you less ambitious, but to help you pursue that ambition in a way that feels more grounded and balanced, as well as get in touch with other parts of yourself beyond constant achievement.

Benefits of Therapy for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

As an experienced therapist serving business owners in San Diego, broader California, Texas, and 42 states nationwide, I’ll work with you to achieve the following results.

• Recover from burnout and chronic stress: Therapy gives you a dedicated space to understand what's driving your exhaustion and to build more sustainable ways of working, resting, and refueling. 

• Feel more present and emotionally connected: Instead of feeling numb or "on autopilot," therapy can help you reconnect with your own emotions, your life outside of the business, and the things that actually feel nourishing. 

• Navigate life and identity transitions with support: Whether you're scaling, selling, stepping back, or redefining your role, working with a therapist for entrepreneurs offers a place to explore who you are beyond your business and what you want life to look like as a whole. 

• Calm anxiety, overthinking, and the inability to switch off: We’ll explore how to regulate your thoughts and emotions differently, preventing your nervous system from “living” in crisis mode. 

• Strengthen relationships impacted by work: Therapy helps you notice how work is spilling into your home life. It gives you tools to repair, communicate, and show up more fully with the people who matter most. 

• Soften perfectionism and fear of failure: Therapy often helps you loosen the grip of harsh self-criticism, relate to risk differently, and make decisions from a steadier place. 

• Feel less alone in leadership and big decisions: Having a therapist who understands entrepreneurs means you don't have to carry every doubt and dilemma alone or pretend you're fine when you're not. 

• Build a sustainable work–life balance and confidence: Over time, therapy for business owners can help you create boundaries, routines, and inner resources that support your ambition and mental health, so you can lead with more grounded confidence instead of constant pressure. 

My Approach to Therapy for Business Owners

Before becoming a clinical psychologist and therapist, I lived in the world you’re in now. I began my career as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley, and then I worked as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group. So I know what it’s like to operate in high-pressure, high-performance business environments where it seems like there’s no margin for error or seemingly obvious off-ramp.

My education combines both business and psychology. I hold a BBA in Finance and Business Honors along with my PhD in Clinical Psychology. This dual background allows me to understand the practical challenges of running a business and the emotional toll it can take.

That means you won’t have to spend sessions describing pitching investors, managing a team in chaos, or worrying all night about the next quarter. I’ve lived these realities myself, so we can move quickly past explaining your world and focus on what’s happening inside it. 

My approach is relational and psychodynamic: we look thoughtfully at the recurring themes in how you work, lead, and relate to others, including how they might show up between us in the room. Rather than generic “tips,” we slow down to understand the deeper logic and emotions behind your habits and reactions, and how past experiences and future fears shape your current decisions. 

Our work together gives you a private and confidential space to reflect, experiment, and refine how you want to live and lead going forward.

Looking for San Diego therapy for business owners? Let’s talk.