Therapy for Executives

An executive therapist is a licensed mental health professional who specializes in working with executives, founders, CEOs, high-powered professionals, and senior leaders. This work takes into account the unique psychological pressures that come with leadership, high responsibility, decision-making, and visibility. Rather than focusing solely on performance or stress management, executive therapy often explores the deeper emotional and relational patterns that shape how a person leads, works, and experiences themselves over time.

In this practice, we provide a confidential, depth-oriented space for executives to navigate challenges, process stress and emotional toll, explore identity, and develop strategies to maintain both well-being and effectiveness. 

Executive coaching or career counseling focuses on professional development, leadership and communication skills, and achieving specific external outcomes such as leadership effectiveness or career advancement. 

Executive therapy, by contrast, is provided by a licensed mental health professional and focuses on the internal emotional and relational patterns that shape how you lead, work, and experience yourself. Executive therapy provides space to explore deeper struggles like self-doubt, perfectionism, burnout, identity, and more. This depth-oriented work can also lead to meaningful internal changes that often impacts leadership and performance indirectly, but in more sustainable ways.

As clinical psychologists bound by strict healthcare privacy and confidentiality laws, we can also help with anxiety, depression, chronic stress, relationship difficulties, and trauma. We’ll also share if we think that other treatment modalities, such as burnout treatment centers would be beneficial for you.

Yes. I provide executive counseling exclusively online, so you can quickly join virtual sessions from your office, home, or on the road without sacrificing depth or quality. All sessions take place via a HIPAA-compliant platform to ensure that your privacy is protected.

While executive coaching typically focuses on strategy and specific professional goals, our therapy delves into the psychological roots of your behavior and feelings. We explore deep seated dynamics, such as perfectionism or family of origin wounds, that coaching strategies often cannot address effectively

No, we treat the whole person rather than just the professional. While work stress is often the catalyst for seeking help, we frequently explore how these pressures impact your personal life, relationships, and sense of identity outside of your career

Executives are often "fixers" who are excellent at solving problems for others, but this same skill set can create blind spots in their own emotional lives. Therapy provides a space where you do not have to be the expert, allowing you to uncover root causes that self reliance and logic alone cannot resolve

Yes, treating burnout is a primary focus of our work. Rather than just offering stress management techniques, we work to identify the internal drivers of your burnout, such as a compulsion to overperform or an inability to set boundaries, to help you find sustainable relief

Because we focus on deep, psychodynamic change rather than quick symptom relief, this is generally a long term process. We work together over time to dismantle longstanding patterns, meaning the duration is open ended and based on your unique needs rather than a set number of sessions

We typically schedule sessions once a week to ensure consistency and momentum. Regular meetings are essential for building the trust and safety required to do deep, insight oriented work effectively

Absolutely, as anxiety and decision fatigue are common struggles for leaders carrying significant responsibility. By understanding the underlying sources of your anxiety, we can help you move toward a place of greater internal stability and clarity in your decision making