Individual therapy for founders · San Francisco & telehealth
The work you’re doing is hard. So is carrying it alone.
One-on-one therapy for founders, entrepreneurs, and high-achieving professionals. In person in San Francisco and by video in California, Minnesota and New York. $325 per one-hour session.
Book a free 15-minute callWhy this matters
Most founders don’t get to be honest about how hard it is.
There’s an unspoken rule in startup culture: stay confident, project certainty, don’t show weakness. Investors, employees, and co-founders are all watching. So you keep the real weight of it to yourself.
The anxiety, the doubt, the exhaustion that doesn’t go away after a weekend off: these things don’t resolve on their own. They compound. Therapy gives you a place to be completely honest. Not to vent, but to work through what’s happening and make sustainable changes in how you operate.
Is this you?
Signs it might be time to talk to someone
You’re running on empty
A common sign of founder burnout: the energy you used to have isn’t there.
Your thoughts won’t slow down
Anxiety and chronic stress follow you into evenings and sleep.
You don’t recognize yourself
An identity shift: the person outside the company feels distant.
Imposter syndrome is getting louder
Imposter syndrome at work: praise doesn’t land.
Your relationships are paying the price
Relationship stress: the people closest to you get what’s left after work.
You’ve lost the thread of why
A loss of meaning and purpose: the trade-offs feel harder to justify.
The work
What individual therapy actually looks like
Sessions are one hour, usually weekly, with a plan built around you, because a lot can change in a week. We work on the specific pressures of building: the identity questions of being the one in charge, anxiety that doesn’t improve when the company does well, and relationships strained by the weight of it.
You will be challenged. You will also be supported. The goal is not to manage symptoms but to create real, lasting change in how you think, lead, and show up.
Free consultation
A 15-minute call to see whether we’re a good fit. No commitment, no intake forms.
First session
We start with what’s most pressing and decide together what the work should focus on.
Ongoing sessions
Usually weekly, one hour. The cadence and focus evolve as things shift.
As long as useful
When you’ve gotten what you came for, we wind down. You’ll know, and so will I.
What we work on
Common reasons founders come in
Founder burnout
The kind of depletion that doesn’t recover with rest.
Anxiety & chronic stress
What the anxiety is protecting, and how to turn the volume down.
Imposter syndrome
Why the gap between external evidence and inner experience exists.
Identity & purpose
Who you are when the company isn’t doing well, and outside of founder.
Work-life integration
Being present in the parts of life that matter without the company consuming everything.
Immigrant founder experience
Building in a country that isn’t yours: performance pressure, cultural navigation, isolation.
Questions
What founders ask before starting
I’ve never done therapy. How do I know it’s right for me?
The free 15-minute consultation is designed to answer exactly that.
Can I do sessions remotely?
Yes, by video in California, Minnesota and New York. In person at 220 Montgomery St #600.
Do you offer early-morning, evening or weekend sessions?
Yes. I offer early-morning, evening and weekend sessions, so therapy can fit around board meetings, launches and a founder’s schedule.
Can we still meet when I’m traveling?
If you’re traveling to New York or Minnesota, we can keep our regular session times, since I’m licensed in both states. I’m not licensed in other U.S. states, so if you’re traveling somewhere else we’ll pause and pick back up when you’re home. If you’re traveling outside the country, we’ll talk it through case by case, since it depends on where you’ll be.
How long does therapy usually take?
Some come for a focused few months; others longer. We go as long as it’s useful.
Is everything confidential?
Yes, with narrow legal exceptions I’ll explain at the start.
Could anything I share reach my investors, board or team?
No. What you share in therapy stays between us. I don’t confirm to investors, your board, your co-founder or your team that you’re a client, or share anything you tell me, without your written consent. The only exceptions are the narrow ones required by law, which I explain in our first session.