--- title: "Therapy for High Achievers in Washington, DC — Cura Tempos" description: "Therapy for lawyers, executives, founders, and policy professionals in DC — for when the life you built starts running you. 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Washington is a small town wearing a big city's coat; we treat that reality with appropriate seriousness." } } ] } ] --- [![Cura Tempos](/__l5e/assets-v1/50a70a4f-7979-497e-9338-0a69569aa15d/logo.png)Cura Tempos Washington, DC ](/) [Home](/)[Our Team](/team-3)[Specialties](/specialties)[Services](/book-online)[Office](/therapy-office-washington-dc)[Investment](/rates)[Journal](/blog)[Media](/media)[Contact](/contact) [Book a free consult](https://www.therapyportal.com/p/curatempos/) Who we work with # 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](/specialties/substance-use), 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](/approach/psychodynamic-therapy) and [IFS](/approach/internal-family-systems) 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](/rates) from $150–194. Downtown at [One Franklin Square](/therapy-office-washington-dc) — minutes from K Street, Metro Center, and the office you probably can't leave early — or by [telehealth](/online-therapy-dc) from wherever the week has you. Discretion is a professional habit here, not a promise. FAQ ## Common questions ### How is this different from executive coaching? Coaching optimizes performance within the current structure; therapy examines the structure — why the pressure works the way it does and what it's costing. Many clients have had good coaching and reached its limits. This starts where that stopped. ### I have one hour a week, no more. Realistic? Yes. Sessions are 55 minutes, telehealth removes the commute, and this work is built to compound between sessions — the way you already know how to make things compound. ### Is what I share protected? My field is small. Yes — standard therapy confidentiality with limits we'll explain plainly. Washington is a small town wearing a big city's coat; we treat that reality with appropriate seriousness. Related - [Stress & burnout →](/specialties/stress-burnout) - [Anxiety therapy →](/specialties/anxiety-therapy) - [Couples therapy →](/specialties/couples-therapy) ## Ready to begin? The 15-minute consult is where most people begin. [Book a free 15-minute consultation](https://www.therapyportal.com/p/curatempos/)[Rates & investment](/rates) Curated mental health & wellness for a life fully lived. [Book a free consult](/book-online) Cura Tempos A boutique DC practice — sex-therapy-led, holistic, unhurried. 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