You've built a career, and you're asking how it lines up with your values and what you'd change. I offer therapy to engineers, product leaders, physicians, lawyers, nonprofit leaders, academics, and other professionals who want to know who they are beyond their jobs, and who want their work to feel more meaningful.
Check what fits. We can discuss your answers when you book a consult.
Check what fits. It comes with you when you schedule, so we can start there.
I draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and DBT and CBT skills, and I adapt the mix to the person. Sessions blend reflection with practical tools where they fit.
If your career has long been the center of your identity, you may be wondering what you want your work, and your life, to look like from here. We explore what you value, where your work matches those values and where it doesn't, and what growth means on your terms rather than someone else's. We also consider how your work fits with the rest of your life (e.g., the hours, the roles, and the people who get what's left).
Underneath that may be patterns like perfectionism, self-doubt, difficulty focusing or following through, and the habit of answering uncertainty with more output. Some of these patterns got you here. The question is whether they're still serving you, and what you'd keep if you could choose.
For one person, this leads to a change in role or field; for another, to staying put with a different relationship to your work. Either way, the aim is a decision made on your terms.
I draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and DBT and CBT skills, and I adapt the mix to the person. Sessions blend reflection with practical tools where they fit.
Before opening this practice, I spent fifteen years in nonprofit behavioral health. For much of the last decade, I led clinical services and training at a Bay Area nonprofit, overseeing programs across multiple sites, supervising directors and clinicians, designing and delivering clinical training, and supporting staff after critical incidents.
I know what organizational pressure looks like from the inside: competing priorities, decisions that affect people who are depending on you, and the particular loneliness of being the person everyone brings problems to. I know what it is to be good at a role and privately wonder whether it's still right for you.
My leadership experience and clinical training complement each other, so I can support you as a person while understanding the context you work in.
Both can help, and they serve different purposes. Therapy fits when what's underneath the goal is about identity, meaning, or a pattern that keeps showing up (e.g., anxiety that follows you from role to role, or a sense of worth that depends on achievement). It is also the right place for anxiety, depression, or sleep and stress problems that have started to affect how you work and live, which coaching isn't set up to treat. Coaching is oriented toward goals, strategy, and accountability, and it fits when you know where you want to go and want support getting there.
Some people see a coach and a therapist at the same time, and with your permission I'm glad to coordinate with your coach so the two support each other. If you're not sure which is the right starting point, we can talk through it in a consultation.
We start with a free 15-minute phone call. If it feels like a fit, we schedule a first session.
Secure video anywhere in California. In person at my office at 518 Hamilton Ave in Palo Alto. Walk-and-talk sessions outdoors on the Peninsula are an option once we've met a few times, for people who think more clearly in motion.
50 minutes, $300, private pay. Most people meet weekly to start. I provide monthly superbills if you have out-of-network benefits. Fees and payment details.
Sessions are between us, with the standard legal exceptions we'll go over at intake.
Yes. Therapy is for people whose lives look fine from the outside and who want more from them than fine. You don't need a diagnosis or a breakdown to want a clearer relationship with your work and yourself. If you're also dealing with anxiety or low mood, that's part of what we can address.
No. The pattern (work as identity, worth as output) shows up in medicine, law, consulting, academia, nonprofits, and the arts. The industry matters less than what you're working through.
That's part of what we can work on. Career questions often sit alongside anxiety, low mood, or trouble focusing, and I treat them together, not as separate problems. You don't need to know what's going on for sure to start. I can use short screeners to sort out what's going on, and if a fuller evaluation or other support would be useful, I'll point you toward the right resources.
Yes. I don't prescribe medication, but with your permission I'm glad to coordinate with your prescriber. If you're wondering whether medication could help, I can talk it through with you and connect you with the appropriate support.
Fifteen minutes by phone, no obligation. We'll talk about what's going on and whether I'm the right person to help.