This service is for high-performing executives who feel like they are constantly one step shy of total collapse. You feel like an imposter in your role but are afraid to admit when you don't know what you are doing. Your business may be flourishing or your family may feel attended to, but it never feels like you can keep both prioritized at the same time. One comes at the cost of the other. You may feel trapped in a position that pays well but demands too much of you. You enjoy the challenges your job provides but are beginning to notice that the work is changing you into someone you and your loved ones don't recognize. The stress and the mental and physical toll are all becoming too much.

You have trouble sleeping at night. You are constantly thinking about work, the poor decisions you have made, all the opportunities for failure that feel so imminent — worrying that you are one bad week away from being fired or bankruptcy. Your friendships are suffering. Your family says they are neglected and rarely see you. What looks like success on the outside feels hollow and terrifying on the inside.

You wonder just how much longer you can hold on, how much longer you can hold your breath and survive. You feel trapped and the powerlessness is crippling if you let it seep in. The panic and anxiety that you hide can contribute to the isolation you feel. You once felt passionate but now you don't know who you are anymore. You feel angry at people for using you and taking advantage of you, but you end up taking it out on the people you love.

For many executives in the DFW metroplex, the root causes of their overwhelm can come from a breakdown in one of these areas:

• Attachment Insecurity: How we were parented — or not parented — provides a foundational aspect of our personality, which contributes to how we interact in relationships and in the workplace.
• Trauma: Unresolved wounding can perpetuate cycles of abuse and victimization, which keep us unable to develop and grow.
• Loss of Purpose and Misalignment of Values: Often engaging in action driven by external factors — like money, fame, power, status, or the expectations of others — can lead to emotional fatigue and a loss of identity or purpose.
• Compensating with High Achievement: Relationships and personal well-being can easily seem so complicated, messy, and unproductive, while achievement in the workplace tends to be goal-oriented, more efficient, and offers plenty of incentives to invest your time and energy. This leads us to avoid how we really feel and what we really want in favor of being productive at work.

I use a combination of Family Systems therapy, Attachment science, and Relational Psychodynamic therapy to help business executives recover their sense of self. Family Systems therapy values the context you were born into and the relational patterns you learned. Attachment science provides a foundational understanding for how you grew up, how it shaped your personality, and where the healing needs to occur. Relational Psychodynamic therapy guides us as we navigate your defenses, coping strategies, and your meaning for life.

This is not just an interest for me — I see it as a calling to help business executives in the DFW metroplex navigate issues of the soul in relation to their work. With a Doctorate in Professional Counseling, I have extensive training and years of experience helping with these specific issues. I also stay current in the field, consult, and train with other clinicians so you can experience long-lasting change.

High-performing business executives often tell us that they begin to:

• Sleep longer and more soundly at night
• Feel more connected to a sense of purpose in their daily lives
• Be more present with the ones they love
• Engage in a sense of play, wonder, and adventure again
• Feel a sense of peace with their family history
• Set boundaries between work and home life with confidence
• Become the kind of person they feel proud of

This kind of therapy will involve deep work in a collaborative and exploratory space. I'm here as a guide and expert on therapy, while you are an expert in your life and experience. You and I will work together in a confidential environment and unpack all that you are facing, both in the present and in the past — and you can set the pace.

In our first session I want to hear all of the stress you are experiencing, as well as get to know your history and background, which will provide context for our work together. Our first sessions are a place for you and me to get a sense of what treatment would look like and see if we are a good fit together.

Often the stress and patterns business executives find themselves in have been a lifetime in the making and will take extensive work. However, you will likely begin to feel a positive shift in your life within the first four to five months.

I recommend in-person therapy whenever possible to create a safe relational space. However, I do offer virtual options when necessary to accommodate my patients' busy schedules.