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About My Clients
Most of the people I work with are high performing on the outside. They're the one others rely on — at work, in the family, in the boardroom. The person who absorbs more than they ever admit and keeps the surface perfect because perfection and performance are what they know how to do. The cost of over functioning has usually been quietly accumulating for a long time, and often shows up in the body before it ever reaches words: dysregulated sleep, persistent fatigue, and treatment resistant pain.
My Background and Approach
My background sits across disciplines. I am a trained clinical psychologist with a specialization in physical and mental health informed by clinical experiences in primary care, neurology and behavioral health, and hospital settings. My prior career in business and finance serves therapeutic work with high performing entrepreneurs and other professionals by eliminating the need for translation. Experience in start-up, consulting, private equity, and Fortune 500 settings allows me to understand the pressures, expectations, and the reward systems of these environments. My approach to psychotherapy integrates data and insight. What looks like a stress, sleep, or motivation problem is usually a signal with logic behind it. We will work together to uncover the meaning behind the signals of the mind, body, and emotional system. That means the work isn't about managing symptoms or lowering your standards. It's about understanding what your systems are are actually doing, and why.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe it is critical to acknowledge that overwhelming stress, burnout, and general distress are endemic. Our families and society are not organized around healthy patterns, and in the United States, we have a culture that rewards performance and external praise above all. It follows then, that all of us, at some point, eventually find ourselves at a crossroads a divorce, a chronic illness, a major loss, or any event that compels us to change. I approach my patients during these changes with respect, and empathy for their life experience and this allows me to be more direct and effective. The patients I work best with are perceptive and intelligent and most have never had someone meet them at their full complexity or depth. One of the most important goals I have for my practice is that my patients don't feel the need to first make themselves smaller to be understood.