Counseling for Professionals

Based in Asheville, NC & supporting busy professionals throughout NC & TX

You have a tough job, and it’s starting to show.

You want to do good in the world and set out to achieve great things, but the high stress nature of the job has worn you down or exposed you to things you can’t get out of your head.

Maybe you’re in a high-pressure profession like business, medicine, or law where decisions or errors you make can have a profound impact on the lives of others.

Or maybe you are an entrepreneur who built your business from the ground up and still feel so much pressure because it’s all on you.

Or maybe you are the professional where your life or the lives of others are at risk each day — a First Responder faced with tragedy and trauma as a part of the job description or a Veteran who was exposed to life-and-death situations regularly, both in training exercises and as part of the mission.

Although the exact nature of the stress or trauma may vary across different occupations, professionals who work in high stress environments are at increased risk for anxiety, depression, and substance use and tend to report things like:

A pressure cooker atmosphere with ever increasing performance measures and dwindling resources
Workloads that make you feel like it’s never enough regardless of how hard you work
Life-and-death decisions or business-related decisions that negatively impact the lives of others
Exposure to the worst parts of humanity or the worst types of human experiences
Feeling helpless because no matter what you do you can’t save everyone
Giving every ounce of yourself to the job and having nothing left at the end of the day

Sound familiar?

You try to keep it all together, but it’s getting harder to do so and the stress and emotions of it all are starting to leak out. You are on edge, feel engulfed by the job, and are struggling to balance your professional and personal lives. There’s simply not enough time in the day, and when you aren’t working, you can’t turn your brain off. There’s the sleepless nights and the exhaustion. Then you wake up and get to do it all over again tomorrow.

You know the effects of the job are bleeding into other areas of your life. You’re impatient, irritable, anxious, or just don’t give a damn anymore. Your relationships are suffering because your focus is elsewhere. Self-care is essentially non-existent and your physical health has taken a hit. Even your work performance may not be what it once was, which is a big problem because mistakes put the company, people, or yourself in danger.

You aren’t sure what to do to fix this.

You’d rather just avoid the issue altogether.

You don’t want to appear vulnerable, weak, or like you are faltering.

But here’s the thing. . .

You’re a human too, and we all have our tipping point, whether we like to acknowledge it or not.

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I specialize in helping professionals who work in high stress environments figure out what is not working in their lives and then provide support so they can regain control of their thoughts, feel calmer and less reactive to triggers, stop feeling buried under the weight of anxiety, panic, anger, guilt, and shame, and get back to activities that are most important to them in life.

This includes work with. . .

Executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners
Legal professionals
Medical professionals, veterinarians, and other frontline medical workers
First Responders
Active-duty military, Reservists, & Veterans (learn more in FAQ below)

Together, we can find a way to get you back on track.

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HOW DO WE GET YOU THERE?

The same way you would tackle a problem you encounter on the job.

As a professional problem-solver yourself, you already know we must define the problem and your goals regarding it:

Identify the root cause.
Implement a corrective action plan
Then evaluate the outcome.
Revisit the issue(s) as needed.

In this case, the specifics of that process will depend upon your unique history, needs, and priorities. We might. . .

work on practical skills related to management of triggers of stress and anxiety
dive deeper into how negative self-beliefs and past upsetting experiences contribute to you being triggered in the first place
work on shifting your work-life balance and any blocking beliefs that get in the way of such changes
target traumas, losses, or difficult on-the-job decisions and pressures that you can’t seem to shake.
focus on boundary setting and dealing with difficult people
target specific professional stressors or your professional goals
identify ways to connect you to resources that allow you to quiet your brain, calm your body, and find moments of ease in your day.

You get to choose what is best for you & I get to help you get there.

I CAN HELP WITH. . .

Anxiety, stress, & balance
Trauma (first-hand & secondary)
Over-functioning (What is this?-see FAQ below)
Anger management
Grief, loss & depression