Therapy for Business Owners & Professionals
You've built something that matters. And somewhere along the way, you became the person everything runs through.
I provide therapy for business owners and professionals in Atlanta who want to understand not just what's happening professionally, but what may be shaping it. How someone leads is often connected to how they learned to create safety, value, control, and connection. Understanding that link can create more awareness and choice in how you lead, relate, and respond to pressure.
This might sound familiar
You don't need a list of job titles to know if this is for you. You'll probably recognize some of this instead.
AT WORK
Feeling like the business doesn't run properly unless you're the one running it
Frustration that other people don't show the same ownership or follow-through you do
Struggling to delegate because you're not confident it will actually get handled
Avoiding a conversation you know you need to have, then feeling resentment build underneath it
Friction with a business partner or co-owner whose style is nothing like yours
AND IT DOESN’T STAY AT WORK
A mind that won't fully turn off, even on vacation
A quiet loneliness, even when you're surrounded by people who rely on you
Professional stress spilling into your marriage or your parenting
None of this means something is wrong with you. It may mean that some of the strategies that contributed to your success are no longer serving you in the same way.
The person underneath the role
Competence, control, and self-sufficiency didn't appear out of nowhere. For many leaders, these qualities developed for understandable reasons, shaped by formative experiences, family roles, important relationships, professional environments, or social expectations over time. They've likely also contributed meaningfully to what you've built.
This isn't a critique of ambition.
Wanting to lead well, build something real, and be excellent at what you do is not the problem. The work is understanding what's shaping the pattern behind the achievement, not undoing the achievement itself.
When the visible problem isn't the whole problem
Stress, conflict, burnout, or a business that seems to depend entirely on you may be the visible fruit of something larger — the roles you occupy, the relationships you navigate with a co-owner, an employee, or a spouse affected by the pressure that comes home, and beneath those, the beliefs, emotional responses, and protective strategies that developed when they first made sense.
Better systems, clearer roles, delegation, accountability structures, coaching, and consulting can all be genuinely useful, and I'm not suggesting you set them aside. But those tools may not fully reach the emotional layer that makes them hard to implement in the first place. If disappointing others feels intolerable, or trusting people is genuinely hard, a better system alone doesn't necessarily change that.
Meaningful change often involves attention to both: the pattern we can see, and what may be supporting it underneath.
How therapy can help
Together, we'd explore what may be shaping the patterns that brought you in. That might include:
Anxiety and a mind that stays in overdrive
Over-responsibility, and difficulty setting boundaries around it
Trust, delegation, and what makes both hard to extend
Conflict avoidance, or the pull toward tighter control
How your sense of worth connects to your performance or usefulness
The way professional pressure affects your closest relationships
My approach draws on parts work, Brainspotting, somatic awareness, and mindfulness-based practices. Insight matters, but insight alone is not always enough. We'll also pay attention to how these patterns appear in your emotions, relationships, decisions, and body, so you can begin responding with greater awareness and choice
This work stays focused on you. It isn't aimed at repairing your company or changing the people around you.