You earned your seat. You've also had to re-earn it in ways your male counterparts haven't, absorb the emotional labor of your team on top of your own work, and manage how you're perceived in rooms that weren't built around someone like you. The depletion that comes from that is specific. $300/session. Private-pay. Evenings and early mornings available.
You got to where you are by being exceptional — and by learning quickly that exceptional wasn't always enough on its own. You've worked with the double bind long enough to know it by feel: assertive enough to lead, not so assertive that you're difficult; ambitious enough to advance, not so visibly ambitious that it reads as threatening. The calibration is exhausting and mostly invisible to the people around you.
You're also likely doing something that doesn't show up in your job description: holding the emotional state of your team, mentoring women more junior than you because no one else will, being the person people come to when something is interpersonally complicated. None of that is in your performance review.
What you're looking for probably isn't someone to validate how hard it is. You already know. You're looking for somewhere to think clearly about what's actually happening — and whether what you're calling "just how it is" has started to cost you more than you'd consciously decided to pay.
If any of these sound like the searches you've been running in a private window, or the thing you've almost said out loud to someone — you're not the only one:
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. It won't diagnose anything, but it might help you name what's going on.
Take the mind-body check →Women in senior roles often develop a vigilance that functions well in the environments that produced it and creates real costs outside of them. When you've had to justify your presence repeatedly — in rooms, in decisions, in conversations about your own career — your system learns to stay ready. Ready to justify, to reframe, to deflect before the challenge even arrives. That kind of readiness doesn't switch off at the end of the workday.
What gets labeled imposter syndrome in high-achieving women is frequently something more precise: you've been held to a different standard, you know it, and some part of you is still waiting for the version of success that finally feels secure. The problem is that version keeps moving. Each promotion, each title, each milestone lands differently than you expected, and the goalpost shifts again.
What tends to help is less about changing how you think about yourself and more about understanding the specific mechanics of what's been running in the background — and building something more sustainable than vigilance.
I do written case conceptualization, a treatment plan with measurable goals, and scheduled progress reviews every 6–8 weeks. If it's not working, we recalibrate. That's how I'd want my own healthcare to work.
Early mornings and evenings. Designed around schedules that don't have slack in them.
Working outside insurance keeps your care more directly between you and your provider. A superbill is available after each session for out-of-network reimbursement if you choose to file one.
No connection to your organization, your HR, your industry network, or anyone you work with.
I work with women who are high-functioning by every external measure and running on less than they should be. I understand the specific texture of that — including what it costs to be the one people lean on when you're also the one with nowhere to put it.
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A VP at a technology company, eleven years into a career she’s worked harder than almost anyone around her to build. She’s the only woman at her level in her division, a position she’s occupied long enough that she’s stopped noticing how much mental energy goes into it.
Her work is good. She knows that. Her team trusts her. From the outside, her career looks exactly like what she wanted.
What’s harder to name is what’s changed in the last year or two. She comes home depleted in a way that sleep doesn’t fully fix. She’s more reactive than she used to be — with her partner, occasionally with her team. The things she used to enjoy outside of work have mostly gone quiet. She tells herself this is a phase, a heavy quarter, something that will ease up. She’s starting to notice that it hasn’t.
The Investment
Sessions are offered through a private-pay practice. Superbills are available for clients 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 →Not exclusively, and the split depends on what’s actually driving what. Work is often where the patterns show up most clearly — the vigilance, the calibration, the overperformance — but the same patterns run through relationships, decisions about rest, how you respond to your own limits. We follow what’s relevant. Sessions won’t be a debrief of your week unless that’s what’s clinically useful.
Written case conceptualization after the intake period, a treatment plan with specific goals, progress reviews every 6–8 weeks. If something isn’t working, we name it and adjust. Most people who’ve found therapy frustrating have been in treatment that lacks direction — this has direction.
It probably isn’t, exactly. Burnout is a useful shorthand but a limited clinical description. What I’m looking for in the intake is more specific: what’s actually depleted, what’s driving it, what’s been sustaining it, and what’s changed. The label matters less than the clinical picture. We’d start by building that together.
Only what’s relevant to the work we’re doing. I do a thorough intake, which means I’ll ask about more than the immediate presenting concern — history, relationships, patterns over time — because that context shapes how I understand what’s happening now. You’re not obligated to share anything you don’t want to. That said, the more accurate the picture I have, the more useful the work tends to be.
Yes. I have early morning and evening availability, and sessions are virtual. If your schedule changes — travel, heavy periods, board prep — we work with it. We’d sort out the logistics in the fit call.
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