Outwardly, your career is thriving. You hold yourself to high standards, where “good enough” rarely feels acceptable. You work long hours, overprepare for routine meetings, carry responsibilities you could delegate, and replay decisions long after they’re made. High performance has always been your baseline, but behind the competence is an unspoken rule: keep moving, keep delivering, and never let anyone see you slip.
Over time, that drive starts to look less like ambition and more like anxiety.
Working harder no longer brings relief or satisfaction. Instead, the cost keeps adding up. A steady hum of dread follows you between meetings, along with broken sleep, tension you carry in your body, sudden spikes of panic, and a loss of confidence that feels unlike you. You might find yourself bracing for the worst or handling everything alone because losing control feels unbearable. At home, exhaustion turns into irritability, and it’s hard to be present with the people you care about most.
When the drive that built your success starts fueling anxiety and burnout, the answer isn’t more effort. It’s changing how your nervous system relates to high performance.
High Achievers & Burnout
What therapy helps with
Running on empty, delivering at a high level while fueled by adrenaline and caffeine
Losing the “off switch,” unable to stop thinking about work on evenings, weekends, or vacation
A mind that feels dulled, with brain fog, decision fatigue, and flatness wearing down the clarity you usually rely on
A sense of self tied to performance, with a quiet fear that slowing down or setting boundaries means losing your edge
A shorter fuse at home, feeling irritable, impatient, or withdrawn with your partner or kids after giving everything at work
Going through the motions, meeting every demand but feeling cut off from satisfaction, creativity, or joy
Stress you feel in your body, like restless sleep, morning dread, muscle tension, or stomach trouble
Here's how we get there
We draw from targeted, evidence-based methods tailored to how your mind and nervous system operate—never forcing your experience into a one-size-fits-all framework.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Untangling Performance Survival Rules
Depth Psychotherapy
Uncovering Unconscious Drivers & Early Blueprints
EMDR
Resetting Autonomic Hyperarousal & Panic
FAQs
Therapy for High Achievers & Burnout
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No. My goal is to strip away the friction, not your ambition.
Many leaders rely on chronic panic, catastrophic worry, and late-night urgency because those mechanisms historically delivered results. But running on adrenaline is metabolically expensive; over time, it leads to cognitive fog, emotional exhaustion, and decision avoidance.
Our work is not about lowering your standards or adopting passive complacency. By resolving mild to moderate distress and settling physical panic alarms, we decouple your drive from fear. You retain your strategic sharpness, execution speed, and high standards, but operate from calm neurological regulation rather than constant survival mode.
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You will not run the room.
High achievers are exceptionally skilled at intellectualizing, analyzing their own behavior, and using verbal fluency as a shield. If a therapist lets you direct the hour or responds with surface-level wellness advice, you are wasting your time.
My clinical framework integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT), Depth Psychotherapy with direct, incisive feedback. Expect an active dialogue where I see past your rehearsed narratives, name the defenses protecting you, and push directly into the friction points you have been avoiding.
If something you're saying sounds like a story you've told yourself a hundred times, I'll name it. The goal isn't comfort for its own sake, it's getting past the polished version of things to what's actually underneath.
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Yes. We will not be operating in an abstract vacuum.
Executive distress cannot be treated without understanding the environment that creates it. Your challenges are rarely theoretical; they involve board conflicts, contentious reorganizations, high-visibility equity events, founder burnout, or enterprise-level accountability.
I offer a grounded, unflinching space where organizational power dynamics, high-risk decision fatigue, and career exposure are understood immediately.
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We establish concrete clinical benchmarks from day one.
I do not believe in open-ended, aimless therapy. In our initial sessions, we define specific indicators of completion.
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You already know what a deferred problem costs in business: it never stays small, and it never gets cheaper.
Internal distress operates by the same calculus. The physical tension, persistent headaches, and fragmented sleep do not resolve on their own. Left unaddressed, the burden compounds rather than lightens, and it inevitably spills beyond you. It begins to show up in the clarity of your strategic decisions, the patience you bring to high-stakes conversations, and your relationships with the teams and families who rely on you.
What appears to be standard executive stress on the surface often masks deeper mild to moderate distress—such as performance anxiety, depression, or old trauma patterns that your nervous system is still running in the background. Finding out what is actually driving the strain is the first step toward stopping the compounded cost.
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Confidentiality is absolute and strictly boundaried.
For founders, partners, C-suite executives, and public figures, discretion is foundational. I operate under strict legal HIPAA standards and rigorous ethical guidelines. Your identity, clinical records, and private life remain completely protected, creating a secure container where you can step out of performance mode without professional or reputational risk.
Session Cost
Private Individual Therapy: $225/ 50-minute session
Couples Therapy: $250/ 50-minute session
In-person in Hermosa Beach or via telehealth anywhere in California.
EMDR
$275/ 50-minute session
In-person in Hermosa Beach or via telehealth anywhere in California.
Insurance: I am an out-of-network provider and do not bill insurance directly. I provide a monthly "superbill" that you can submit to your insurer for potential reimbursement. Check with your plan to verify your out-of-network mental health coverage.