You are brilliant at your job. You are exhausted by your life.
Individual therapy for high-achieving professionals who are functioning well on the outside and privately struggling underneath.
You are probably not in crisis.
You are still going to work. Still hitting your targets. Still the person your team, your family, and your friends rely on. From the outside, everything looks fine.
But something has shifted. The exhaustion does not lift at the weekend. The anxiety that used to sharpen you is now just constant background noise. You have achieved what you set out to achieve and something still feels profoundly absent.
High-functioning burnout rarely announces itself with a collapse. It announces itself with a Tuesday afternoon where you sit in the car park and cannot make yourself go back inside.
With a Sunday evening dread that has become indistinguishable from your resting state. This is the territory I work in.
Who This Is For
What Makes This Different
Most therapists will listen carefully to your description of your world. I already know it. Before training as a psychotherapist, I spent 15 years as a senior programme manager in corporate healthcare, the NHS, and financial services.
I have sat in the boardroom, managed high-stakes programmes under significant pressure, and felt the cumulative toll that high-performance environments take on a person over time.
This changes what is possible in the room. You will not need to explain the politics, the pressure, or the identity questions that come with seniority. We can go directly to the work.
I am BACP-registered, JMT-certified as a coach, and completing an MSc in Counselling and Coaching at the University of East London.
Issues I Work With
Burnout and chronic stress in high-performing professionals
Trauma, PTSD and complex trauma (C-PTSD)
Anxiety, particularly high-functioning anxiety
Identity and life transitions — who am I beyond what I achieve?
Relationship difficulties
Financial stress and its psychological impact
Grief and bereavement, including sudden loss
Depression masked by high performance
How We Work Together
Get in touch
Free 20-minute consultation
Your first session
Send a brief message or book a free consultation directly online. I respond to all enquiries within 24 hours.
A confidential call to share what has brought you here, ask any questions, and get a sense of whether we are a good fit. No commitment. No obligation.
The first session is an opportunity to go deeper into what has brought you here. I will not immediately ask you to talk about the most difficult things. We begin where you are.
FEES
Fee: £95 per 50-minute session
Availability: Limited — I hold a small caseload to ensure depth of attention
Location: Online across the UK and in person in Bedford
“I wasn’t falling apart. That was the problem.”
M. was a Head of Operations at a mid-size healthcare organisation when she first got in touch.
Forty-three years old, fifteen years in the NHS before moving into the private sector, two direct reports away from the executive team. By every organisational measure she was performing. Her appraisals said exceptional.
Her diary said otherwise. She had not taken a full day off in eleven months. She was waking at 4am with her mind already running through the next day’s risk register. She had stopped going to the gym, stopped seeing friends, and stopped finishing meals.
Her GP had run bloods, found nothing, and suggested she try mindfulness.
She had downloaded three apps and opened none of them. What brought her to therapy was not a crisis. It was a Tuesday afternoon when she sat in her car in the office car park for twenty-five minutes because she could not make herself go back inside.
She was not crying. She was not panicking. She simply could not move. She described it later as “my body putting in its notice before I did.” She came to therapy saying she needed to manage stress better.
What emerged over the following months was a more precise picture: she had spent the better part of a decade making herself indispensable as a strategy for feeling secure.
Every yes to an additional workload, every weekend email, every crisis she absorbed without complaint — these were not signs of dedication. They were a negotiation she was having with herself about her own worth.
Eight months after her first session, she was appointed to the executive team — the role she had been working towards for three years. She noted, in one of our final sessions, that she cared about it less than she had expected to.
Not because it did not matter, but because she had stopped needing it to prove something. She still works hard. The difference, she said, is that she now does it by choice.
Case Study
All identifying details have been changed. Published as a composite with consent.
Frequently Asked Questions
I’ve never had therapy before. Is that a problem?
Not at all. Many of my clients come for the first time in their forties or fifties, after years of managing alone.
You do not need to know what to say. You just need to show up.
How long will therapy take?
There is no fixed answer. Some clients work with me for twelve focused sessions. Others find longer-term work more useful.
We review regularly and you remain in control throughout.
I’m not sure I’m struggling enough to justify therapy
This is the most common thing I hear from high-achieving clients.
The threshold is not how bad things have become — it is whether something in your life is costing you more than it should. If you are reading this page, something probably is.
Is online therapy as effective as in-person?
For most people, yes. Research consistently shows comparable outcomes. Many clients actively prefer working online.
Do you offer reduced fees?
A small number of reduced-fee places are available. Please mention this when you get in touch.
Ready to Begin?
The first step is simply a conversation.
The free 20-minute consultation is confidential, carries no obligation, and is available online or by phone across the UK. I aim to respond to all enquiries within 24 hours.
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