Therapy for High-Achieving Professionals
You're good at this. The career compounds, the reputation holds, the machine runs. And somewhere in the running of it, a set of questions has been accumulating interest: why the win never lands for more than a day, why home gets the worst hour of you, why it all feels like a performance you can't leave.
This practice was built for exactly this clientele — people whose competence is real, whose lives look enviable, and who want the inside to match the outside. Not coaching. The deeper work.
What we see behind impressive resumes
- Achievement that quiets the anxiety for shorter and shorter intervals
- Impostor feelings scaled to the size of the role
- A relationship or family getting the depleted remainder
- Drinking, working, or optimizing as licensed forms of avoidance
- The 4 a.m. question: is this actually the life I wanted?
- Success built on an engine of fear that's due for different fuel
Why driven people do well here
High performers often make excellent therapy clients — you already know how to work a process, tolerate honest feedback, and execute between sessions. What you need is a clinician who won't be impressed into uselessness by the resume, and who can tell the difference between the strategy conversation you'd have with a coach and the structural one that actually changes things.
The work draws on psychodynamic and IFS approaches — because the drive usually has an origin story worth understanding — alongside concrete cognitive tools for the anxiety and the inner auditor. Where the pressure has reached the marriage or the bedroom, the practice's couples and sex-therapy depth means nothing gets referred out awkwardly.
Practical details
55-minute sessions, $215 with sliding scale from $150–194. Downtown at One Franklin Square — minutes from K Street, Metro Center, and the office you probably can't leave early — or by telehealth from wherever the week has you. Discretion is a professional habit here, not a promise.
Common questions
Ready to begin?
The 15-minute consult is where most people begin.