Therapy for Business Owners & Entrepreneurs
Therapy for entrepreneurs helps you carry the mental load of leadership, quiet imposter thoughts, and run your business without losing yourself.
Serving founders online in MA, NY, CO, VT, and FL.
You’ve built the business. Now build the peace of mind to match.
✔ Support Built for the Entrepreneurial Mind
We tackle the specific pressures that keep founders up at night, from financial anxiety and the fear of visibility to leadership fatigue and the weight of "doing it all."
✔ Tools for Immediate Impact
You don’t have time to wait months for relief. I use evidence-based strategies like CBT, ACT, and IFS to give you practical tools you can apply between our sessions, not just during them.
✔ Therapy That Fits Your Founder Schedule
Your calendar is already full. I offer secure, virtual appointments with select evening options, ensuring your mental health support respects your professional commitments.
✔ Licensed Support Across 5 States
Tailored therapy for high-achieving female entrepreneurs throughout Massachusetts, New York, Colorado, Vermont, and Florida.
Step Into a Calmer Way of Leading
Your dream was independence. You were excited to take an idea and turn it into a career on your own terms.
The reality? You traded your 9–5 for 24/7. It can feel like there’s no real off switch, just another decision to make, a scenario to think through, or a fire to put out. If it feels isolating, you’re not alone.
Research Snapshot
Entrepreneurship is high-reward and high-pressure. A UC Berkeley IRB–approved study led by Dr. Michael Freeman found entrepreneurs reported higher lifetime rates of certain mental health conditions than non-entrepreneurs. [1]
72%
Reported mental health concerns (personal or family)
49%
Reported at least one lifetime condition (depression, ADHD, substance use, or bipolar disorder)
2x
Higher lifetime depression rates (30% vs. 15%)
6x
Higher lifetime ADHD rates (29% vs. 5%)
Note: Anxiety rates were similar across groups (27% vs. 26%).
Just because you feel the impact of mental health doesn’t mean it has to stay this way. Therapy for entrepreneurs can help with burnout, persistent worry, and self-doubt so you can step out of panic mode, think more clearly, and lead from a more grounded and empowered place.
What I Help Business Owners Address
Worry about performance, money, or the future of the business
Perfectionistic standards and fear of disappointing others
Feeling like a fraud despite real accomplishments
Difficulty slowing down or turning off “work mode”
Founder burnout, chronic stress, and decision fatigue
Isolation, resentment, or relationship strain due to work demands
Untangling your identity from your business
If more than one of these feels true, you’re not alone.
If worry spirals are driving this, see Anxiety Therapy. If it’s rigid standards and over-preparing, see Perfectionism Therapy. If it’s denying your successes despite real wins, see Imposter Syndrome Therapy.
Specialized Support for Founders
Mental wellness is a business asset.
You deserve a space to offload the mental clutter, reconnect with your values, and regulate your nervous system. In therapy, we’ll work on practical, founder-relevant shifts so you can:
Feel more grounded and less reactive
Quiet your inner critic so decisions become clearer
Navigate stress and transitions with more ease
Make room for your personal life again without guilt
Feel more present at work and home
When your mind is clear, your leadership improves, and so does your life.
My Approach to Therapy for Entrepreneurs
You don’t have to have it all “figured out” to start. Together, we create a space where you can be honest, vulnerable, and supported.
We might:
Identify the beliefs that keep you overworking or people-pleasing
Practice healthy boundaries and communication strategies
Confront fears around risk and growth
Overcome negative self-talk and imposter thoughts
Learn tools to calm your nervous system during stressful moments
Redefine success so it includes your health, wellness, and relationships
Treatment Modalities
I use evidence-based approaches that help business owners change patterns fast, not just talk about them. We’ll focus on what’s driving the stress, and build tools you can actually use between sessions.
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We’ll identify and challenge unhelpful thought patterns that may be affecting your performance, leadership, confidence, and success as an entrepreneur.
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ACT therapy helps you stop fighting uncomfortable emotions and avoiding uncertainty, two common patterns for business owners under chronic stress. Instead, you’ll learn how to move forward with clarity and purpose by accepting what’s outside your control and staying grounded in your core values.
ACT can lower nervous energy, improve resilience, and help you lead from values instead of pressure.
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IFS helps you work with the different parts of you that show up under pressure, like the inner critic, the overachiever, or the part that feels like a fraud. These voices often spike when feeling burnt out or during high-stakes decision-making.
We’ll help those parts heal so that you can lead from a more confident, compassionate place.
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We’ll build on your strengths, increase resilience, and create fulfillment, not just success, in your business and your life.
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Mindfulness helps you notice what’s happening in your body and mind before it becomes a spiral. We’ll use practical skills like breathing practices, grounding, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to lower reactivity, improve focus, and create more intentional decision-making. Over time, this supports clearer thinking, steadier leadership, and a lower risk of burnout.
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Psychodynamic therapy helps us connect what you’re dealing with now to patterns formed earlier in life. For many business owners, the pressure to perform, over-function, people-please, or stay in constant urgency did not start with the business. It often comes from older beliefs about worth, safety, success, and what it takes to be accepted.
In our work together, we’ll identify and address recurring themes from your past. For example, we’ll look at previous relationships, work style, and inner dialogue. From there, we will explore how past experiences may still shape your reactions today. The goal is to gain insight that actually changes things (e.g., more emotional freedom, healthier boundaries, less self-sabotage, and leadership that comes from choice instead of old survival strategies).
This approach is especially helpful if old patterns keep emerging, even when you use new tools. It is also beneficial when stress is consistently out of proportion to the situation.
Therapy for Business Owners in MA, NY, CO, VT & FL
You keep building what matters. Therapy can be the place where you stop carrying every decision alone. I offer online therapy for business owners across Massachusetts, New York, Colorado, Vermont, and Florida so support fits your life, not the other way around.
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Owning a business in Massachusetts, whether you’re scaling a biotech startup in Cambridge, leading a team in Boston, or running a firm in Worcester, comes with relentless expectations. I help MA founders move past perfectionism and "always-on" anxiety to create a sustainable “business-life balance”.
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It doesn’t matter if you are scaling a startup in Manhattan, opening a firm in Brooklyn, or running a family business Upstate. The pressure of entrepreneurship is universal. In the New York business world, the pace never slows, and neither does your constant internal evaluation. We’ll work on boundary setting, performance-based worth, perfectionism, and people-pleasing so you can lead with clarity rather than exhaustion.
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As an entrepreneur in Colorado, whether you are based in Denver, Boulder, or a mountain town, you understand the unique grind— hustle, adapt, stay resilient, repeat. If you want to work with someone who genuinely gets founder pressure, I can help. As a Denver business owner myself, I help other CO founders quiet their inner critic and prevent burnout so they can enjoy the life and businesses they built.
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Vermont business owners are driven by both purpose and community. And still, the stress remains a constant and very real part of entrepreneurship. Whether you are running a small business in Burlington, working remotely from a rural town, or building something meaningful on your own terms, online therapy can offer grounded support.
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Fast-moving markets in Miami, Tampa, and Orlando can keep you in overdrive. We’ll manage overwhelm, strengthen boundaries, and reconnect your vision for the business with the life you want to live.
I’m A Small Business Owner Too
Running a business is not just what I help others with. It is what I do every day. As a solo entrepreneur myself, I know what it is like to carry the vision, make the decisions, and feel the pressure to always perform.
I have navigated many of the same emotional ups and downs my clients describe: self-doubt, late nights, big risks, and the impact of wanting to get it right for everyone.
That lived experience shapes the way I show up in our work together. You will not have to explain what it means to run a business. I already get it, and I am here to help you build a version of success that includes your mental health too.
FAQs
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I work with entrepreneurs and business owners who are high-functioning on the outside and overwhelmed on the inside. Most of my clients are solo founders or small business owners, startup leaders, consultants, creatives with a business, and professionals building a side business into something real. Many are women in leadership or male-dominated industries, and a lot are carrying both business demands and personal mental load.
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Yes. I work with professionals growing a side business, independent consultants, and people in transition who are carrying both the day job responsibilities and the demands of building what’s next.
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That’s exactly why online therapy exists. You can attend sessions from your office, your car, or wherever works best for your schedule. Even one hour a week can help you feel more focused, calm, and in control. Many clients start by tightening one or two pressure points (sleep, email boundaries, decision fatigue) so you feel relief fast, then we go deeper from there.
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Absolutely. Many high-performing founders seek therapy not because they’re failing, but because they want to continue excelling without compromising their health, relationships, or well-being. Therapy is about enhancing self-awareness, improving resilience, and making the process sustainable, so you can protect your peace while performing at your best.
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If your mind never shuts off, you’re constantly bracing for the next big issue, or you can’t enjoy your wins, it’s worth looking into support options. You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit.
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Start with a free consultation. We’ll talk through what’s going on, what you’ve tried, and what kind of support would actually fit. If I’m not the right fit, I will let you know and provide helpful resources.
Related Resources Founders
Read Next
Read my deep dive on Founder Burnout, Imposter Syndrome, and the Mental Load of Running a Business
Research Spotlight
Anxiety and Entrepreneurship Article: No Need to Worry? Anxiety and Coping in the Entrepreneurship Process
Neil A Thompson, Marco van Gelderen, Laura Keppler (2020)
This paper explores how entrepreneurial anxiety can show up throughout the goal-striving process, and the coping strategies founders tend to use. If founder stress shows up as overthinking, pressure, or fear of getting it wrong, it’s not a personal failure. It’s a pattern we can work with directly. [2]
Ready to make space for yourself, not just your business?
You don’t have to choose between your ambition and your peace.
Therapy is a place where you can keep your edge while stopping the high-alert feeling of entrepreneurship from running the show. We’ll move you past the imposter thoughts and burnout that stall your growth, so you can build something that actually feels sustainable. If you’re ready to carry the weight of your business without it weighing you down, let’s talk.
Schedule a free 30-minute consultation, and we’ll map out a plan to help you feel as centered as you are driven.
[ + ] References and Research
[1] Freeman, M. A., Johnson, S. L., Staudenmaier, P. J., & Zisser, M. R. (2015). Are Entrepreneurs Touched with Fire? (Pre-publication manuscript). View Source (PDF)
[2] Thompson, N. A., van Gelderen, M., & Keppler, L. (2020). No Need to Worry? Anxiety and Coping in the Entrepreneurship Process. View Source (PubMed) | View Source (Full Text)