You've spent twenty years building expertise in how things actually work. You deserve a clinical approach that meets that standard.
$300/session. Cash-pay. Independent of your institution. Virtual, CA & TX.
You're constantly thinking, mentoring, producing, solving, and carrying responsibility for other people. The pressure is rarely dramatic — it's cumulative. Years of deadlines, evaluation, administrative demands, and intellectual intensity can quietly disconnect you from rest, creativity, and even your own life outside achievement. I understand how easy it is for high-functioning burnout to hide inside competence.
If any of these sound like the searches you've been making between deadlines or grant cycles — these are some of the most common patterns I see in academics I work with:
Not sure if therapy is the right next step? Take a 3-minute mind-body self-reflection — built around the patterns I see most often in senior academics. It won't diagnose anything, but it might help you name what's going on.
Take the mind-body check →Academic environments reward sustained self-sacrifice in ways that can become difficult to see from the inside. Because the pressure is intellectual rather than visibly chaotic, you may not notice how profoundly your nervous system has adapted to constant evaluation, comparison, and productivity. Over time, curiosity becomes performance, rest starts to feel undeserved, and self-worth becomes tied to output, recognition, and expertise.
I provide a working case conceptualization, written treatment plans, scheduled progress reviews, and goal recalibration. I've come to appreciate the methodological rigor a high-achiever expects from their healthcare — I believe this expectation elevates talk therapy.
Teaching terms, grant deadlines, conference season, and the general irregularity of academic life. I work with your calendar, not against it.
No connection to your university's EAP, counseling center, HR systems, or employee benefits. Working outside insurance keeps your care more directly between you and your provider.
CBT, ACT, and other evidence-based interventions — described to you with the same precision you'd expect from a good methods section. No hand-waving about "the work."
I work with the full range of what brings senior academics in: relationship strain, post-tenure disorientation, questions about whether to stay in academia, family-of-origin patterns that became newly relevant. Not just the administrative exhaustion.
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A tenured associate professor at a major research university, fifteen years in, recently appointed to chair a search committee and serve on two college-wide task forces. The R01 just got renewed but the writing took six months out of her actual research time. She’s mentoring three doctoral students, two postdocs, and a junior faculty member who is struggling, and she’s the person all of them come to with the things they can’t say to anyone else. Her own work — the questions that brought her into the field — keeps getting pushed to weekends, then to summers, then to “after this semester.” She made full professor a year ago and felt nothing. She’s not depressed, exactly. She’s running on something other than what she started with, and she doesn’t have anyone to say that to who would understand without it becoming a referendum on her career.
The Investment
Sessions are offered through a private-pay practice. Superbills are available if you're seeking out-of-network reimbursement, which may offset a portion of the fee depending on your plan.
Working outside insurance allows for a more personalized, flexible, and thoughtful therapeutic process.
Book a free 15-min fit call →Sessions are $300, paid directly after each appointment. This practice operates outside insurance, which means no claim is filed with a carrier on your behalf. After each session I provide a superbill — a formatted receipt — that you can submit to your personal plan for out-of-network reimbursement if you choose. Working outside insurance keeps decisions about your care more directly between you and your provider.
Yes. I schedule around teaching terms, grant cycles, conference season, and the general irregularity of academic life. If you have a submission deadline coming up and need to shift things around, we shift. Most academic clients prefer a consistent weekly slot outside teaching hours — early morning or evening — that we protect from semester drift. We'll sort out the logistics in the fit call.
EAPs are designed as a generalist resource — trained to serve the broadest range of employees with the most common presenting concerns. Sessions typically cap at 3–8, and providers are contracted through your institution, which means records are held by a third-party vendor your employer selected and the independence is more limited than it appears. My practice takes a different approach: a niche focus on senior academics, no session caps, no diagnosis requirements, and enough context about academic life — administrative accumulation, post-tenure disorientation, identity fusion with a field — that you don't spend the first few sessions providing background before we can do real work.
Burnout is a colloquial label for a range of things with different clinical shapes. What I hear more often from academics is something more specific: functional but running on something other than what brought them into the field. A flattening of the work that used to be meaningful. A sense of displacement from the questions they actually care about. The inability to find the right structure to say any of this to anyone. That pattern responds to clinical work, and you don't have to be impaired to benefit from it.
Yes, and this is worth saying directly: burnout is one reason academics come in, not the only one. I work with the full range of what senior academics bring — relationship strain that's been de-prioritized for years, questions about whether to stay in academia, late-career identity questions, family patterns that became more salient after major career transitions. The academic context matters because it shapes the patterns, but the presenting issue doesn't have to be work.
That's a legitimate clinical question, not a crisis. A lot of what I work on with academics is the identity weight attached to that decision — the fear that leaving means something about the last twenty years, or about who you are. The goal isn't to push you toward staying or leaving. It's to help you make that decision from a clearer place, rather than from exhaustion or accumulated resentment, so you can trust it afterward.
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