The title. The exit. The reputation. From the outside, the life is exactly what you built it to look like. From the inside, something is off in a way you cannot say out loud to anyone around you. You don't need more strategy. You need one room where none of what you've built has to walk in with you.
You Got Everything You Wanted. So Why Doesn't It Feel Like Enough?
My insights on mental health and high performance have been featured in:
Specialty Areas · Menlo Park & Online Throughout California
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Anxiety Therapy
The drive that built everything is now the thing that won't let you rest. This work addresses what high-functioning anxiety actually costs.
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Trauma Therapy
You've never said it out loud to anyone. You've just learned to carry it. This work gets to what's been running underneath and moves it.
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Therapy For Founders
Leaving a company is a grief most people around you won't understand. It changes your identity in ways that are hard to name. This work does both.
Here’s What It Actually Looks Like From the Inside
The ambition that built your success doesn't turn off when you leave the office. It follows you home, into your relationships, into the moments that should feel like relief and don't.
That hollow is not a character flaw. It's what happens when the person the world applauds and the person actually carrying it have drifted too far apart to ignore.
Three things bring clients like you here:
The exit happened. The promotion landed. The goal was reached. You expected to feel free. You don't.
The same drive that built everything is now quietly taking something from you: your health, your relationships, your ability to be present in your own life.
You've been performing so long you've forgotten what it feels like to be off.
The people most prepared to do this work are usually the ones who have spent the longest time convincing everyone around them that they're fine.
Therapy isn't a sign that something is wrong with you. It's what happens when someone this capable decides that carrying it alone stops here.
Who I Am and Why It Matters
Before I became a therapist, I was a Chief Marketing Officer at a venture-backed Silicon Valley startup. Then a founder who built something, sold it, and discovered the exit didn't come with the peace everyone assumes it does.
I know how foreign it feels to ask for help when your identity is built around not needing it.
For over a decade I have sat with founders, executives, and high-achieving professionals who needed someone who could hold the full picture: the ambition, the cost of it, the fears that have never had anywhere to land. Most of them had never had that before.
This work will not ask you to slow down. It will ask you to look honestly at whether the direction you're running is one you actually chose.
At Your Level, Being Seen in Therapy Is Its Own Risk.
No insurance claims. No records shared with employers, boards, or anyone in your network. What you bring into a session belongs only to you. This practice was built with that in mind from the start.
Therapy Built for the Way You Think
Sessions are available in person at my Menlo Park office or online throughout California.
This is a private-pay practice. I work with a limited number of clients at any given time to ensure the depth of attention this work requires.
For clients where it fits, I incorporate Accelerated Resolution Therapy, a research-backed treatment recognized by SAMHSA that works at the level of the nervous system rather than the intellect alone. Many of my clients have spent years being able to talk about what's bothering them without it actually moving. Accelerated Resolution Therapy changes that.
In clinical research, Accelerated Resolution Therapy has shown significant reductions in trauma, anxiety, and depression, with meaningful change reported in as few as 1 to 5 sessions, and outcomes comparable to long-term treatment in a fraction of the time.
For the people I work with, that translates to better sleep, steadier relationships, and decisions made from clarity rather than fear.
We work at the depth the issue requires. The goal is change that integrates into your decisions, your relationships, your daily life.
This Work Is Built for a Specific Kind of Person
There is a particular quality of stuck that only shows up at a certain level of success. Where you've built enough that walking away feels unthinkable, but staying in the current trajectory feels like it's slowly costing you something you haven't yet found a word for. Where every external marker says you've arrived and the interior experience tells a completely different story.
You haven't told the people around you how you actually feel. Not your partner. Not your board. Not your closest friend. Not because you lack the words, but because every relationship in your life is tied to the version of you that performs flawlessly.
There is no space in the architecture of your life to say what is actually true without changing something.
You are not looking for someone to remind you how fortunate you are. You already know. That's part of what makes this so isolating to navigate.
What Becomes Possible Is Worth Naming
Not as a promise. As a direction.
You leave a difficult conversation at work and notice something unusual.
You are not replaying it two hours later. You are not rehearsing what you should have said or running contingencies for what comes next. It is simply over, and you are present for whatever is in front of you now.
That kind of quiet used to feel unavailable.
Your partner says something that would have, six months ago, sent you straight into defense mode.
Instead you hear it as what it actually is. A moment of frustration. Not an attack. Not a sign that something is fundamentally wrong. You respond instead of react, and the conversation that follows is one you would not have been capable of a year prior.
You hit a milestone you have been working toward for years.
For the first time, you let yourself actually feel it. You do not immediately pivot to the next target. You do not reach for something to discharge the discomfort of having finally arrived. You feel it, and you stay there.
It belongs to you, and you do not need to escape it.
The 3am loop does not disappear from your life entirely.
But when it comes, you know what it is. You are no longer at its mercy.
None of this requires you to become someone unrecognizable. The drive stays. The standards stay. What changes is the internal experience of carrying them.
Decisions made from clarity instead of fear. Presence in a life you have worked too hard to keep missing.
The life you have built is already remarkable. This work is about finally being able to inhabit it.
This work is direct and sometimes moves faster than people expect. It requires you to show up as you actually are, not the version you present to a room. If that is not where you are yet, this is not the right time.
My practice works exclusively with individual adults. I do not offer couples, family, or group sessions. If you are in acute crisis, I will help connect you with the appropriate level of care.
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