Excellence shouldn't come at the cost of your wellbeing.

Therapy for High-Achieving Adults in California, Pennsylvania, & Virginia

You've mastered the game of success. Now it's time to honor the person who made it all possible—you.

Success Looks Different From The Inside

From the outside, your life appears enviable. You've climbed the corporate ladder, launched your own start-up, work for a thriving tech company, earned advanced degrees, or built a successful business. Your LinkedIn profile is impressive, your salary substantial, and your colleagues respect your expertise. Yet despite checking all the boxes of "success," you might feel empty, exhausted, that you are an imposter compared to your peers, or like you're living someone else's life.

You're not alone in this paradox. High-achieving adults often struggle with unique challenges that others don't understand. The very traits that drive your professional success—perfectionism, relentless work ethic, and high standards—can become sources of profound stress and disconnection from yourself and others. These traits can also mask underlying emotional issues, such as trauma or depression.

You deserve support that understands both your achievements and your struggles, without minimizing either.

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When Success Becomes A Golden Cage

High achievement often comes with a hidden cost. The pressure to maintain your image, the fear of failure, and the constant drive for more can create a cycle of stress that's both exhausting and isolating. Many successful professionals find themselves struggling with issues that seem incompatible with their external success.

You might recognize these experiences:

  • Persistent anxiety about maintaining your performance by exceeding expectations

  • Imposter syndrome—feeling like you'll be "found out" as a fraud

  • Perfectionism that paralyzes decision-making or creates endless work cycles

  • Challenges in setting and maintaining boundaries to create work/life balance

  • Living to work rather than working to live

  • Difficulty relaxing or "turning off" your achievement-oriented mindset

  • Substance use to cope with stress or social obligations

  • Relationship problems due to work demands or emotional unavailability

  • Physical symptoms of chronic stress—insomnia, headaches, digestive issues

  • Feeling empty despite external markers of success

  • Comparing yourself constantly to other high achievers

High achievement culture often impacts:

  • Work-life integration and personal relationships

  • Physical health and stress management

  • Sense of identity beyond professional accomplishments

  • Ability to experience joy and satisfaction

  • Decision-making when faced with competing priorities

  • Mental health during career transitions or setbacks

  • Parenting and modeling healthy achievement for children

If you're nodding along, you're experiencing something many brilliant, successful people face—and there's nothing wrong with you for struggling.

Therapy Designed For Complex, Criven Minds

Working with high-achieving adults requires understanding the unique psychological landscape of success. I specialize in helping intelligent, accomplished professionals navigate the challenges that come with excellence while preserving what makes you effective and driven.

My treatment approach integrates:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Addressing perfectionism, anxiety, and cognitive distortions common among high achievers

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): Cultivating effective communication skills, building and maintaining healthy boundaries, and values work distinguishing between authentic goals and internalized pressures

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: Developing present-moment awareness to break cycles of rumination and worry

  • Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR): To address negative core beliefs that can keep high achievers “stuck” the work cycle.

What makes my approach unique: I understand the language of high performance and won't pathologize your drive or suggest you "just relax." Instead, we'll work to optimize your mental and emotional systems the same way you'd optimize any other high-performing system in your life.

Your therapy journey typically includes:

  • Assessment and goal-setting- Understanding your specific challenges and defining success in therapy

  • Skill building- Developing tools for stress management, emotional regulation, and cognitive flexibility

  • Deeper work (ongoing) - Addressing core patterns, beliefs, and relationship dynamics that fuel overachievement

  • Integration and maintenance - Creating sustainable practices that support both peak performance and personal wellbeing

Sessions are structured efficiently to respect your time while going deep enough to create lasting change. I offer both weekly sessions and intensive formats for busy schedules.

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This therapy is designed for you if:

  • You're a tech company professional, C-suite executive, physician, attorney, consultant, entrepreneur, or other high-demand professional

  • You struggle with perfectionism that interferes with productivity or relationships

  • You feel burned out despite loving your work

  • You're facing a career transition and questioning your identity and values

  • You use alcohol, substances, or workaholism to manage stress

  • Your relationships are suffering due to work demands or emotional exhaustion

  • You're a high-achieving parent worried about modeling unhealthy patterns

  • You've been successful by external measures but feel unfulfilled internally

  • You're dealing with imposter syndrome despite clear evidence of competence

I work with professionals across industries including technology, finance, healthcare, law, consulting, academia, and entrepreneurship. Whether you're a newly-minted MBA, Google hire, or a seasoned executive, the challenges of high achievement can emerge at any career stage.

Special focus areas include: Executive stress and burnout, entrepreneur mental health, physician/healthcare provider wellbeing, academic and research professionals, and high-achieving parents.

Frequently Asked Questions

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  • The goal isn't to eliminate your drive but to make it more sustainable and aligned with your authentic values. Many clients find they actually perform better when they're not constantly fighting internal stress and perfectionism.

  •  I maintain the highest standards of confidentiality and am experienced in working with public figures and professionals in small industries. We can discuss specific privacy concerns during your consultation.

  • Absolutely. Many work challenges have psychological roots in perfectionism, anxiety, or interpersonal patterns. We'll address the underlying mental health aspects while helping you navigate professional situations more effectively.

Your success shouldn't require sacrificing your well-being.

Let's optimize both.