ONLINE INDIVIDUAL THERAPY FOR WORK STRESS BASED IN CHICAGO, SERVING IL, MI, & WI

KEEP THE CAREER YOU LOVE.

CHANGE WHAT IT’S costing YOU.

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LET’S BE REAL—THERE’S NO TIME TO SLOW DOWN. BUT YOU ALSO KNOW YOU CAN’T keep going LIKE THIS.

You’ve worked hard to build a life that looks (and is) successful—and admitting you’re overwhelmed doesn’t really fit the image. You love your job or at least your career path. You have built your identity around being the professional who handles things, figures it out, and is never too tired or too busy for one more thing.

It’s terrifying to imagine anyone ever knowing you’re secretly dissatisfied, afraid your career is taking a toll on the family and relationships you already have, or wondering if you’ve missed your chance to build the life you thought you’d have outside of work. Beyond that, you can’t really let those thoughts into your own mind, because it might mean you chose the wrong path altogether.

So, you keep your guard up and keep going—but you can see the cracks in your facade growing by the day, and wonder if others can see them, too.

MAYBE YOU’RE…

  • You don’t have a ton of close relationships because trusting people with your true self and feelings has never seemed like a good idea. But even the relationships you do have—with family and old friends from school—fell by the wayside some time ago. And when you do manage to make it to a dinner or birthday party, someone winds up upset that you won’t stop answering emails or stepping away to take calls.

  • Though there’s no concrete evidence that you’re underperforming (yet), keeping all the plates spinning is feeling harder than ever. Even if it’s not apparent to others, you’ve noticed how difficult it is to concentrate or care, how much lower your tolerance for everyone else’s bullshit is, the minor slip-ups that you never would’ve made five years ago, and how you’ve been arriving later and later to the office—something you wouldn’t tolerate from someone else.

  • You know it’s unhealthy to be opening your laptop after dinner, but the nagging thoughts about what still needs to be done won’t leave you alone. Even the things that used to help you let off some steam—a whiskey neat or high-intensity workout class—can’t pull your thoughts away from your never-ending to-do list.

  • Because every moment you’re away another thing is added to your work pile for when you get back. You’ve always believed that if you don’t do what needs to be done, no one will—or at least they won’t do it right. Or, worse, someone else will do it and think you’re lazy for not being there to do it yourself.

  • yet lowering them doesn’t feel like an option. Anything short of your best can feel like failure—even when doing everything perfectly means sacrificing yourself in the process.

  • Because while you were focused on building a successful career, relationships and family could always come later. Except now “later” is here, and you can almost physically feel that something’s missing.  You’re terrified you may have waited too long for the life you assumed you’d eventually have.

  • Lately, every interaction you have leaves you wanting to punch a wall. You’ve always had a temper, but this is different. You can’t wait for the person to leave the room before you boil over anymore, so you snap and have an outburst, then have to deal with the aftermath. HR has either already heard about you or you’re afraid they will soon.

Here’s what we’ll do together

I am not going to tell you to work less

I also won’t tell you to set more boundaries, lower your standards, or find a better “work-life balance.” Your ambition, independence, and drive have helped you get where you are. We’re not trying to take those things away or convince you to want a different life.

Instead, we’ll figure out why the career you’ve worked so hard to build has started to feel so overwhelming. We’ll look beyond the workload itself and get curious about the pressure you’re putting on yourself to succeed, get it right, stay in control, or avoid disappointing other people.

We’ll also look at where those patterns come from. 

Why does making a mistake feel so threatening? 

Why is relying on other people so difficult?

Why does slowing down make you uncomfortable?

Why does being successful never actually make you feel secure?

And because you’re probably pretty good at endlessly analyzing things, I’m not going to let you stay in your head the entire time. I’ll challenge you to notice what’s happening underneath the overthinking—the feelings you avoid, the things you don’t say, and the parts of yourself you’ve learned to keep guarded.

The point isn’t to help you “tolerate” a stressful career. Instead, it’s to understand why something you worked so hard for is taking so much out of you, and then help you find a way to succeed that leaves room to actually enjoy what you’ve built.

LEARN MORE ABOUT WORKING WITH ME

yOU DON’T HAVE TO give up YOUR CAREER TO HAVE A MORE FULFILLING LIFE.

yOU JUST NEED A reimagined VERSION OF IT WITH MORE room to be human.

THERAPY FOR WORK STRESS CAN HELP YOU:

Trust yourself and your abilities

No longer constantly second-guess your decisions, look for evidence that you got something wrong, or beat yourself up because it’s not “perfect.”

01

Feel more in control of your internal world

Loosen your grip on the need to control everything externally and build skills to settle yourself internally.


02

Delegate and rely on other people

Learn to say “no” without assuming everything will fall apart—or fall back on you—if you aren’t the one handling it.

03

Figure out what you want out of life.

Explore what might feel like it’s missing and find ways to create more time for those things.

04

Understand and manage what you’re feeling.

Learn to express a wider range of emotions, so frustration and irritability aren’t the only ones that make it to the surface.


05

Let’s build a life that has room for both your ambition and you.

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FAQs

COMMON QUESTIONS

  • Therapy can help you understand what’s making work feel so overwhelming and identify the patterns that may be adding to the pressure. Together, we can look at things like overthinking, perfectionism, difficulty letting go of control, and feeling like everything depends on you.

    The goal is to help you manage stress differently, feel more confident in yourself, and make room for the rest of your life without giving up the ambition that matters to you.

  • Absolutely. I’m not here to tell you how many hours you should work or how important your career should be to you. We’ll look at what’s creating so much pressure around work and why it’s become so difficult to manage.

    The goal is to help you keep pursuing the success you want without feeling like your career has to consume the rest of your life.

  • Sometimes staying busy, planning ahead, or keeping everything under control becomes more than a way to get things done. It can also protect you from uncomfortable emotions, uncertainty, criticism, or the vulnerability of relying on other people. When productivity becomes tied to your sense of security or self-worth, slowing down can feel surprisingly uncomfortable.

    Therapy can help you understand what's driving that pressure and why doing less can feel so difficult, even when you know you need a break.

  • Burnout can look different for everyone, but common signs include feeling exhausted or emotionally disconnected, becoming more irritable, struggling to focus, making mistakes you normally wouldn’t make, or simply not caring about work the way you used to.

    You may also find it harder to leave work at work, notice that your relationships are suffering, or feel like the strategies you’ve always used to manage stress just aren’t working anymore.

  • When you’re used to anticipating problems, staying three steps ahead, and feeling responsible for making sure everything gets done, it can be incredibly hard to just switch that off at the end of the day.

    Therapy can help you understand what keeps your mind constantly “on” so you can be more present outside of work without feeling like you’re dropping the ball.

  • Even when you’re objectively successful, you may still feel like you have to keep achieving to prove that you deserve to be where you are. We’ll look at where that pressure comes from, why your sense of worth may feel so tied to what you accomplish, and what makes it so difficult to ever feel like you’ve done enough.

  • You’re not alone in that. If staying busy has become your default, slowing down can leave room for thoughts, feelings, and discomfort that you’re used to pushing aside.

    I’m not going to tell you to “just relax.” Instead, we’ll work on understanding why slowing down feels so uncomfortable so you don’t have to stay in constant motion just to feel okay.