Therapy for Founders & Entrepreneurs
Exploring the psychological side of building something meaningful.
Building a business can be exciting, meaningful, and deeply personal. It can also bring enormous pressure, uncertainty, and responsibility.
When you're a founder or entrepreneur, your work can become deeply intertwined with your identity, relationships, and sense of self. You might find yourself constantly thinking about the business, carrying the weight of difficult decisions, or struggling to disconnect even when the workday is over.
Maybe you're experiencing burnout, anxiety, or a growing sense of isolation. Maybe you're navigating difficult relationships with a cofounder, business partner, or team. Or perhaps you've reached a point where you're questioning what success actually means to you.
Sometimes the challenges of entrepreneurship bring us face-to-face with deeper psychological patterns, unresolved experiences, and questions about who we are and how we want to live.
Therapy offers a space to slow down, explore these experiences, and develop a deeper understanding of yourself.
I offer somatic and depth-oriented psychotherapy for founders, entrepreneurs, and business owners navigating the psychological and emotional demands of entrepreneurship.
In-person therapy in Breckenridge, Colorado, and online therapy throughout Colorado and New Jersey.
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When Building a Business Begins to Take a Toll
Entrepreneurship can ask a lot of us.
There's the ongoing uncertainty of making things work, the responsibility of supporting employees or partners, financial pressures, and the constant decisions that come with leading something.
Over time, these demands can begin affecting your mental health, nervous system, relationships, and overall well-being.
You may find yourself:
Feeling chronically stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed by the responsibilities of your business.
Struggling to disconnect from work or feeling guilty when you're taking time off.
Experiencing burnout, exhaustion, or a loss of excitement for something you once loved.
Navigating tension, conflict, or communication difficulties with cofounders and business partners.
Feeling isolated or unable to openly share what you're going through with others.
Questioning your identity, purpose, or self-worth as your business evolves.
Struggling with perfectionism, self-criticism, fear of failure, or the pressure to succeed.
Noticing that your work is affecting your intimate relationships, friendships, or family life.
Feeling uncertain about your next chapter, even after achieving meaningful success.
These experiences can have a real impact on your emotional and psychological well-being.
And sometimes, the very qualities that helped you build your business—ambition, drive, independence, and a willingness to take risks—can become connected to patterns that are worth exploring more deeply.
Exploring the Person Behind the Business
Our work often becomes an expression of who we are.
For entrepreneurs, building something can bring up powerful questions about identity, self-worth, belonging, responsibility, and control.
What happens when your sense of value becomes tied to the success of your business?
How do you respond when things feel uncertain or outside your control?
What patterns emerge when you're under pressure, experiencing conflict, or afraid of disappointing others?
And what happens when the business you've spent years building begins to change, or no longer feels aligned with the person you're becoming?
These questions can open up meaningful territory for deeper psychological exploration.
In therapy, we can begin to understand how your experiences, relationships, beliefs, and emotional patterns shape the way you navigate both your professional and personal life.
This work can involve exploring your relationship with ambition, success, failure, responsibility, and the parts of yourself that have developed around these experiences.
My Approach to Therapy for Entrepreneurs
My approach integrates somatic psychology, depth-oriented psychotherapy, relational exploration, and practical tools for emotional regulation.
I believe our psychological lives are shaped by the complex relationship between our bodies, emotions, personal histories, relationships, and the environments we find ourselves in.
When we're under chronic stress, we may begin to operate from familiar patterns of pushing harder, withdrawing, overthinking, or trying to maintain control.
These responses often have deeper histories and can become particularly pronounced in the uncertain environment of entrepreneurship.
Our work together may involve:
Somatic awareness and nervous system regulation: Understanding how stress, anxiety, and overwhelm show up in your body and developing ways to respond to them.
Exploring relational patterns: Looking at how you navigate conflict, boundaries, vulnerability, communication, and connection with others.
Understanding deeper psychological patterns: Exploring the beliefs, emotional responses, and past experiences that may shape your relationship with work, responsibility, and success.
Working with identity and life transitions: Making space for questions about purpose, meaning, personal change, and the direction your life is taking.
Developing a different relationship with stress and ambition: Exploring ways to approach your work with greater awareness, flexibility, and emotional balance.
Every person brings a different history and set of experiences into therapy. Our work develops around what you're navigating and what feels important to explore.
Navigating Cofounder and Business Relationships
Some of the most emotionally challenging aspects of entrepreneurship happen in relationships.
Cofounder partnerships, in particular, can involve significant trust, vulnerability, financial responsibility, competing expectations, and shared identity.
When tension emerges, these relationships can activate familiar patterns around conflict, attachment, communication, and control.
You might find yourself avoiding difficult conversations, taking on too much responsibility, feeling misunderstood, or struggling to express your needs.
Individual therapy can provide a space to explore your experience within these relationships, understand the patterns that emerge, and develop greater awareness of how you show up during moments of conflict or uncertainty.
This can also extend to your relationships outside of work, especially when the demands of entrepreneurship begin affecting your ability to connect with partners, friends, or family.
A Therapist Who Understands Entrepreneurship
Alongside my work as a licensed professional counselor, I've spent much of my professional life building organizations, developing educational programs, and navigating the complexities of entrepreneurship.
I'm a cofounder of Psychedelics Today and Vital Psychedelic Training, organizations focused on education, professional development, and the evolving field of psychedelic studies.
Through these experiences, I've become familiar with the responsibilities, uncertainties, relationships, and personal challenges involved in building and sustaining a business.
My clinical training is in somatic psychology and transpersonal psychology, with an emphasis on understanding the deeper dimensions of human experience.
I bring these perspectives together in my work with entrepreneurs, creating a space where we can explore the emotional, relational, and psychological experiences that accompany building something meaningful.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to be experiencing burnout or a mental health crisis to start therapy?
No. People seek therapy for many reasons.
You might be experiencing anxiety, depression, burnout, or significant stress. You might also be functioning well professionally while struggling with relationship patterns, questions of identity, or an ongoing sense of dissatisfaction.
Therapy can be a useful space to explore what you're experiencing and understand yourself more deeply.
Is this therapy or business coaching?
This service is individual psychotherapy focused on your psychological and emotional well-being.
We can explore how your business, professional relationships, leadership responsibilities, and personal history are affecting your mental health and relationships.
Business strategy, organizational consulting, and operational decision-making are outside the scope of this therapy service. If you are looking for coaching, we can explore this option.
Can we explore difficulties with my cofounder or business partner?
Yes. Business partnerships can bring up significant emotional and relational challenges.
In individual therapy, we can explore your experience of these relationships, your reactions to conflict, and the patterns that may be influencing how you communicate and relate to others.
Do you work with entrepreneurs outside of startups?
Yes. I work with founders, small-business owners, self-employed professionals, and entrepreneurs at different stages of their professional lives.
You might be starting something new, navigating a growing organization, considering a major transition, or trying to create a healthier relationship with work.
Where do you offer therapy?
I offer in-person psychotherapy in Breckenridge, Colorado, and telehealth services for adults physically located in Colorado or New Jersey at the time of their sessions.
Making Space for Yourself
Building something meaningful can take a great deal of energy, attention, and commitment.
Along the way, it can be easy to lose touch with yourself, your relationships, and the things that give your life meaning.
Therapy creates space to explore what's happening beneath the surface, understand the patterns shaping your experiences, and reconnect with what matters to you.
If you're a founder or entrepreneur navigating stress, burnout, relationship challenges, or a period of personal change, I'd be glad to connect and explore whether working together feels like a good fit.