Therapy for High-Performing Women & Gender-Diverse Adults

If you are a high-performing woman or femme-identifying person who is often expected to be capable, composed, and reliable — and who is quietly exhausted by the weight of that expectation — therapy can offer a space to slow down and recalibrate.

I work with women and gender-diverse people, including nonbinary and gender-expansive clients, who are navigating high levels of responsibility, chronic stress, and the emotional impact of sustained performance. Many of the people I work with are socially positioned in ways that demand competence, emotional labor, and self-containment, often without adequate support.

Therapy for High Achievers, Professionals, and Caregivers

High-performing clients often seek therapy for experiences such as:

• Persistent stress or mental overload

• Difficulty resting or disengaging from responsibility

• Perfectionism and harsh self-evaluation

• Burnout in work, caregiving, or leadership roles

• Feeling emotionally disconnected despite outward success

• Pressure to remain composed, productive, or agreeable

• A sense that slowing down is not an option

These patterns are not personal failures. They are often adaptive responses to professional, relational, and cultural expectations. Therapy focuses on understanding these patterns in context and creating more sustainable ways of relating to work, relationships, and self.

What Therapy Can Support

Therapy may help you:

• Reduce chronic stress and emotional fatigue

• Understand and soften over-functioning and perfectionism

• Navigate burnout and high-pressure environments

• Develop boundaries that do not rely on guilt or self-erasure

• Reconnect with values beyond productivity or performance

• Build ways of coping that are sustainable rather than depleting

The goal is not to reduce competence or ambition, but to support a life that does not require constant self-override.

Individual Therapy Approach

My approach is relational, collaborative, and grounded in evidence-based practice. I work with high-performing women and gender-diverse adults across many roles and identities, including professionals, leaders, caregivers, creatives, and people navigating complex systems of expectation and responsibility.

Therapy is tailored to your goals and lived experience. There is no assumption that you need to be fixed, slowed down, or redirected — only understood more fully.

Who This Work Is For

This work may be a good fit if you:

• Are a high-performing woman or gender-diverse adult

• Feel burned out, overwhelmed, or emotionally stretched thin

• Are outwardly functional while internally exhausted or anxious

• Want support without being pathologized

• Are seeking sustainable change rather than quick solutions

You do not need to be in crisis to begin therapy. Many clients start when they realize that functioning well is not the same as feeling well.

Therapy for High-Performers in California

I provide individual therapy to adults located in California. Sessions are offered virtually, allowing flexibility for demanding schedules, caregiving responsibilities, and professional commitments.

Get Started

If you are interested in therapy for high-performing women and gender-diverse adults, I invite you to schedule a consultation. We can talk about what you are navigating and whether working together feels like a good fit.