Work & Career Therapy in NYC
It looks like dreading Sunday nights before the week has even started. Feeling like you have to perform a version of yourself at work that doesn't match who you actually are. Overworking to prove you belong there, or underperforming because some part of you has already checked out.
Over time, the pressure to perform, stay ahead, or hold everything together can become constant. What once felt motivating may begin to feel relentless. Therapy offers space to understand what is driving that pressure so your career can be something you're in, not something you're surviving.
Work & Career Therapy in NYC
Left unchecked, professional stress doesn't stay contained to work. It narrows everything. Relationships start to feel like one more obligation on the list. Rest feels undeserved. Even the wins stop landing the way they used to.
Therapy creates space to step back and examine what success actually means to you now, how work fits into your broader life, and what needs to change for your pace to be sustainable. Building tolerance for those moments, rather than white-knuckling through them, is part of what makes lasting change possible.
Over time, the goal isn't a completely different relationship to ambition or achievement. It's one that's actually yours, built on what you want rather than what you learned you had to do to be safe, valued, or enough.
Types of Work & Career Therapy I Specialize In:
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It looks like being physically home and still mentally at your desk. Checking email "just once" after dinner, and then again before bed. Feeling guilty resting, and resentful working and sometimes in the same hour.
This work looks at what balance would actually mean for your specific life, rather than a generic ideal, and helps you build boundaries that hold even when the old guilt shows up.
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It looks like being the person everyone brings their problems to, with no one to bring yours to. Carrying decisions that affect other people's jobs, families, and futures quietly, because leaders aren't supposed to look like they're struggling. The isolation of being responsible for outcomes you don't fully control.
This work makes room for the weight leadership actually carries, and helps you find support that doesn't require pretending you don't need any.
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It looks like carrying the financial weight of a household alone, and not feeling like you're allowed to talk about how heavy that is. Saying yes to more work than you have room for, because the cost of saying no feels too high. A pressure that doesn't turn off on weekends, holidays, or bad days.
This work makes space for a kind of stress that often goes unnamed and helps you find where there's actually room to set some of that weight down.
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It looks like your sense of who you are getting tangled up with what you do for work, and feeling lost without it. The shame of explaining a gap, even when the reasons were entirely out of your control. Applying, waiting, hearing nothing, and starting to internalize silence as rejection.
This work helps you hold onto your sense of self while you're between roles, so this chapter doesn't define how you see yourself long after it's over.