Therapy for Work-Related Stress
We understand the balancing act of personal and professional life.
Career success can be both deeply rewarding and uniquely isolating. For people in corporate America, entrepreneurship, business ownership, real estate, law, medicine, finance, education, or other professional careers, years of hard work may have brought you to great heights—but also left you with less time for yourself and fewer people who truly understand your experience.
While your responsibilities and accomplishments enable you to serve others, few may have been willing to or have offered the same level of care in return. Everyone needs an outlet. The unspoken thoughts and experiences you carry don’t disappear—they’re often just hidden behind increasingly sophisticated coping strategies.
If you’ve noticed the things that once kept you going are losing their effectiveness, and the stress and anxiety of managing it all have begun affecting your well-being, it might be time to seek support.
EXAMPLE SCENARIOS IMPACTING THE MENTAL HEALTH OF WORKING PROFESSIONALS
Not wanting to get out of bed on workdays or feeling a sense of dread about the upcoming work week.
Noticing that you’ve become more irritable in your personal life as it’s become more difficult to compartmentalize feelings from your career.
Falling into patterns of stress and anxiety due to your typical coping strategies no longer offering relief.
Excessive and/or unrealistic worry about your career goals
Constant fear of others’ judging your work performance
Unreasonably pressuring others to meet your standards both personally and professionally
Strained intimate and social relationships
Poor work-life balance
Difficulty relaxing or enjoying time off from work
General state of irritability
Hypervigilance and/or feeling constantly on edge
Difficulty sleeping
Diminished interest or enjoyment with hobbies and self-care
Unhealthy coping behaviors
Common Mental Health Challenges Due to Work-Related Stress
…You are more than what you do…
How We’ll Help You Overcome Your Situation…
Career-related stress and anxiety are common and very treatable experiences. In our therapy sessions, we’ll focus on exploring the importance of your career and how it’s become intertwined with your mental health. We’ll work together to identify how professional experiences have impacted important areas of your life including mental and emotional wellness, self-care, relationships. identity, social life, decision making, sleep patterns, and more.
Education is important to us. In most cases, by the time career issues have begun negatively impacting other areas of life, its likely somewhere along the way your professional identity began overshadowing the other hats you wear as a person. One of our primary goals is to help reconnect you with your whole self so that you can once again learn to enjoy the totality of who you are beyond simply what you do for a living.
To accomplish this, we’ll work on anxiety and stress reduction to help you regain balance and manage better, core values development to realign with the person you’d like to be, and growth mindset development to correct dysfunctional thought patterns and help you fall back in love with the purpose behind your work so you can enjoy the life you deserve.
Common Treatment Modalities
Psychoanalytic Therapy - For building self-awareness & understanding the potential origins of symptoms
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - For learning distress tolerance & emotional regulation skills
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy - For developing mindfulness, acceptance & value-based living
Positive Psychology - For developing an optimistic, resilient, and growth-mindset toward life
Sports Psychology - For learning additional performance-based tools helpful for improving work performance.