THERAPY FOR OVERACHIEVERS IN HOUSTON, TX AND ONLINE
Therapy for Overachievers
Your Life is a Case Study in Curiosity and Gold-Star-Worthy Checklists, but You Feel Like Something’s Missing.
Do the words perfectionist and people pleaser sum up your life experience in an uncomfortably neat package? If you are a former honors student or someone who has ordered their life around methodically checking all the boxes, you might find yourself regularly coming up against a lack of fulfillment, anxiety, stress, or even panic as you try to meet all the demands and expectations you place on yourself.
Between work, relationships, and your own internal pressures, you never quite feel like you are enough or have done enough.
It’s time to change all that.
Isn’t Being a Perfectionist Just Who I Am?
When your productivity or performance is tied to how you feel about yourself, high functioning anxiety has likely been a feature of your life until now. But just because you’ve learned to adapt and deal with the extreme pressure you put on yourself (and likely have benefitted from it in the past) doesn’t mean that’s how you should continue to move through your life now.
In therapy for overachievers, you can learn how to be kinder with yourself and your ambitions, without losing the drive that’s made you who you are.
Therapy With Me Might Be for You If…
When you’ve structured your entire life around your achievements, growth, and challenges, hitting any kind of pause to reflect and feel might feel scary. Let’s talk about the kinds of goals and growth you can unlock in therapy so we can figure out exactly what you need right now.
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You’ve done everything you were supposed to. By your measure, your family’s insistence and society’s expectations, you’ve gotten ahead of the curve.
But it all feels a little bit empty.
It’s not like a piece of you is missing; no, you’re just feeling like even with all the pieces, things aren’t coming together in a way that makes sense for (or to) you.
If dissatisfaction is a constant companion right alongside your to-do list, there is space to suspend your expectations and explore what’s really going on in therapy.
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You know who you’re supposed to be and, mostly, you’re that person.
But sometimes you wonder what it’d be like to be something or someone else.
Maybe you’re just tired of trying so hard. Or perhaps you’re feeling like a different path might bring new and exciting possibilities that you can’t access now.
Sometimes curiosity is stifling, particularly when you feel like you’re separated from exploring it and all you want to do is learn something new about yourself, the world, or life.
In therapy for the chronically curious, we will begin to explore what’s feeling unexplored. You’ll get the chance to unpack your anxiety, curiosity, and restlessness with a dose of compassion. All the while, you’ll have support and a sounding board so you don’t lose your way.
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Can’t be bothered dating or all your prospects falling flat? Maybe you’re dating someone but feeling like you’re always holding something back.
But honestly, it’s more than that.
Whether you’re tired of online dating or just too tired from work to give your energy to relationships, it takes a lot out of you. From connecting with coworkers to friendships, you’re feeling on edge about the way you build relationships with other people.
Cultivating healthy and happy relationships isn’t something that depends on other people. In therapy, you can work on the way you think about and connect with relationships from the inside out.
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Therapy is different every time, and you know that, so you keep trying new therapists in hopes that one of them will be ready to dive deep with you.
You aren’t satisfied playing in the shallows of self-care and simple wellness. You want to dig into the depths of your past, present, and future with the support of someone just as invested in this messy magic as you are.
I’m here for it. As a therapy fangirl, I’ve spent more than a decade being that person, and if you see yourself in this little blurb, I welcome you into the warmth of my therapy room and its unfathomable depth. You are infinite and infinitely capable.
You can (and should) explore every possible facet of what that means for you at the pace that you feel ready to indulge. Let’s solve puzzles, problems, and sink into the complex possibility of every path along the way.
You Don’t Have to Untangle the Knots in Your Thoughts Alone
(Buckle up: therapy analogy headed your way.) If life were a sweater, therapy would be the stitching that securely binds together each part. You can often wear a sweater long after the bindings come loose and holes appear, but it will be more fragile than it once was. It’ll still work…as long as you don’t tug too hard. Life, like sweaters, feels a little bit more durable when our fragile places are well protected by the security of surely-bound seams.
When your favorite sweater gets a snag or a seam comes loose, you don’t throw the whole thing out. Life is a little like that, too. You can troubleshoot the knot or the loose stitches of your situation by sitting down and taking a close look at things. It’s even more helpful when you tackle the issue alongside someone else who is looking for solutions instead of lost in the emotions of that tangle.
While I may have pushed the limits on this metaphor, I think it appropriately prepares you for what to expect in session with me. If you’re down with metaphors, I can’t wait to see how many we can weave together (pun very much intended) to discover the difference therapy can make in an otherwise held together life.
You deserve secure seams in your sweater of life. And, I’m a seasoned mental health seamstress with a passion for uniquely beautiful lives (and sweaters, TBH).
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.
It is a direction not a destination.”
— Carl Rogers
You Can (but you don’t have to)
Want to set new goals, achieve new things and live the life of “on paper” dreams? Amazing, I’d love to support you.
Did you once want that, but now you’re not so sure? That’s okay too.
The real beauty in therapy is that every path is available to you and none of them are absolute. The only thing that must be certain is your willingness to learn as you go.
There’s no pressure to get it right.
You can’t get life “wrong” unless you stop looking for and listening to the voice inside yourself that helps you figure out what that means to you. If you’re ready to let the world’s expectations of achievement and success fall away, you’re ready to begin unfolding a universe of adventure where you a feel a little more empowered by what could be if you choose it.