Executive Therapy

in Pleasant Hill and Alamo, CA

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As a tech professional or executive, the pressures you face are unique. Long hours, high-stakes decisions, and the weight of leadership can take a toll. In industries driven by constant innovation and tight deadlines, managing clear communication and expectations with diverse teams becomes even more challenging. Balancing high performance with personal well-being requires support tailored to your needs.

Therapy offers a space to unpack the challenges of imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and decision fatigue while addressing burnout and stress management. Whether you're navigating complex office dynamics, struggling with work-life balance, or wrestling with self-doubts, therapy can help you find clarity. Therapy becomes a space to reset, recharge, and refocus, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally.

Exploring feelings of 'not enough', unworthiness, or fears of success
Staying steady under intense pressure in high-stakes moments
Navigating social anxiety with more ease in meetings and gatherings
Learning to pivot without losing momentum when plans change
Reducing mental clutter with practical strategies for overthinking
Making decisions faster, more confidently, with less second-guessing
Overcoming perfectionism or imposter syndrome
Managing career shifts without feeling lost or like you're starting over
Developing strategies for stress or burnout in high-pressure roles
Navigating work-life balance while maintaining peak performance
Enhancing leadership skills and emotional intelligence

How We Help:

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What we help with:

Exploring feelings of 'not enough', unworthiness, or fears of success
Staying steady under intense pressure in high-stakes moments
Navigating social anxiety with more ease in meetings and gatherings
Learning to pivot without losing momentum when plans change
Reducing mental clutter with practical strategies for overthinking
Making decisions faster, more confidently, with less second-guessing
Overcoming perfectionism or imposter syndrome
Managing career shifts without feeling lost or like you're starting over
Developing strategies for stress or burnout in high-pressure roles
Navigating work-life balance while maintaining peak performance
Enhancing leadership skills and emotional intelligence

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Our Preferred Evidence-Based Treatments

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an empirically supported treatment that helps change distressing thought patterns that contribute to anxiety and depression. Through CBT, you'll learn to identify and challenge negative thoughts, reframe irrational beliefs, and replace them with healthier, more realistic perspectives. CBT also focuses on breaking patterns of self-doubt and worry by learning how to re-evaluate situations and adopt more constructive thinking. These tools empower you to make lasting changes in how you think and respond.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness principles to help individuals manage emotions, navigate challenges, and improve relationships. It focuses on four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. By building these skills, DBT empowers individuals to replace destructive patterns with practical, lasting strategies that promote resilience, balance, and a greater sense of control in daily life.
TF-CBT helps by combining practical coping skills with gradual exposure to difficult memories. It starts by teaching relaxation techniques, emotional regulation, and ways to challenge unhelpful thoughts. Once a strong foundation is built, individuals slowly and safely process their trauma with the support of a therapist. This approach reduces fear and distress, strengthens personal resilience, and fosters healthier ways of thinking and relating to others.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a proven, client-centered approach designed to help individuals overcome ambivalence and create lasting change. It focuses on exploring personal motivations and values, guiding clients to take actionable steps toward their goals. MI is highly effective in treating issues like addiction, unhealthy behaviors, and low motivation by strengthening confidence and commitment, empowering clients to drive their own positive transformations.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a proven approach that that helps couples break negative cycles and strengthen emotional bonds. In therapy, partners identify patterns of conflict and learn techniques like emotional validation and replacing reactive behaviors with empathetic responses. EFT targets underlying emotional triggers, promoting healthier attachment while deepening intimacy. It’s particularly effective for couples facing disconnection, insecurity, and trust issues, leading to genuine understanding and lasting change. This therapy is effective with treating emotional withdrawal, fear of abandonment, and attachment wounds, creating stronger, more secure relationships.
EMDR helps your brain reprocess stuck memories so they no longer feel overwhelming or intense. Unprocessed experiences can trigger or worsen anxiety, shame, distress, and physiological reactions. After EMDR, difficult experiences often feel neutral, distant, or easier to manage. We use techniques like eye movements or handheld tappers to activate both sides of the brain, supporting your brain’s natural ability to heal and make sense of the distressing experiences. Sessions follow a structured 8-phase protocol to help you build resilience and process memories, while fully awake and alert. EMDR is effective for distress related to loss, illness, trauma, childhood wounds, and relationship pain.
ERP is a structured therapy that helps reduce distress from obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. It involves gradual, guided exposure to feared situations or thoughts without doing the habits or rituals you usually do to feel better. This process helps decrease anxiety over time and breaks the cycle of obsessions and rituals. You remain fully present and supported throughout, learning new ways to tolerate discomfort and regain control. ERP is especially effective for OCD, skin picking, hair pulling, and related anxiety challenges. Sessions are available in person and via telehealth throughout California.