Peak Performance Coaching
Are you a driven professional who senses you're capable of more? Do you struggle to balance career ambition with meaningful relationships? As a psychotherapist with real-world business experience, I offer peak performance coaching in New Canaan, CT, designed to help ambitious individuals break through barriers and achieve sustainable success in both their professional and personal lives.
What Makes My Approach Different
What sets my peak performance coaching apart is my background working in the business world before becoming a psychotherapist. Unlike the vast majority of therapists who lack this experience, I understand the language of business, the pressure of deadlines, the complexity of office politics, and the constant tension between short-term demands and long-term strategy.
This dual perspective—combining practical business knowledge with therapeutic expertise—allows me to offer insights that are both psychologically sound and practically applicable to real professional environments. When you discuss workplace challenges with me, I understand not just the emotional component but also the strategic, interpersonal, and organizational dynamics at play.
Who Benefits from Peak Performance Coaching
My ideal clients are committed to self-improvement and make therapy a priority in their lives. You typically struggle with issues related to romantic relationships and career challenges, recognizing that these areas are deeply interconnected and significantly impact overall life satisfaction.
You might benefit from peak performance coaching if you're:
The Ambitious Professional preparing for leadership, navigating a career transition, or feeling stuck despite your best efforts. You want to optimize your performance and develop the mental clarity to make strategic career decisions.
The Relationship-Conscious Achiever who recognizes that professional success means little if your personal relationships suffer. You're seeking ways to maintain excellence at work while also showing up fully in your romantic partnership.
The Career Transitioner considering a complete career change, stepping into a new industry, or contemplating entrepreneurship. You want support navigating this pivotal period while managing the practical and emotional challenges that accompany significant change.
The High-Functioning Anxious Performer who appears successful externally but struggles internally with anxiety, perfectionism, or impostor syndrome. You want to address these patterns without compromising the drive that has contributed to your success.
My Therapeutic Approach
I draw from multiple evidence-based therapeutic modalities to create a personalized approach tailored to your unique needs:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps you identify and transform the thought patterns that either support or undermine your success. High achievers often struggle with cognitive distortions—all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, or harsh self-criticism—that create unnecessary stress and limit potential.
Emotionally Focused Therapy provides powerful tools for understanding and transforming relationship patterns. This proves especially valuable for clients whose professional strengths sometimes create challenges in intimate relationships.
Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying solutions, leveraging your existing strengths, and creating concrete action plans. This approach respects your time while producing tangible progress, building on the considerable competence you've already demonstrated.
Gestalt Therapy brings awareness to present-moment experience and helps integrate different aspects of self. This addresses the compartmentalization many high performers develop—the professional persona separated from the personal self.
What to Expect: The Coaching Process
Initial Deep Dive Assessment
My intake process involves a comprehensive exploration of your background, goals, challenges, and patterns. I conduct a deep dive into your personal and professional history to understand the full context of what has brought you to coaching and what you hope to achieve. This thorough assessment enables me to develop a nuanced understanding of your unique situation and tailor my approach to your specific needs.
Weekly Sessions with Between-Session Work
After the initial assessment, appointments are scheduled on a weekly basis. This consistent cadence provides the structure and momentum necessary for sustained progress. Depending on your goals, there might be homework assignments between sessions—purposeful practice designed to help you apply therapeutic insights to real-world situations and accelerate your progress.
Personalized, Not One-Size-Fits-All
Your goals, challenges, personality, and circumstances are unique, and your coaching process reflects that individuality. While I draw from established therapeutic modalities, I adapt and combine these approaches based on what works best for you. I remain flexible and responsive to your evolving needs, regularly checking in to ensure our work together continues to serve your goals.
Key Areas I Address
Career and Work Challenges
I help you manage work stress effectively, navigate career transitions successfully, develop leadership presence, and address perfectionism and performance anxiety. My business background proves particularly valuable in understanding the practical considerations involved in professional challenges while also addressing the emotional and psychological dimensions.
Relationship Excellence
Professional success and relationship satisfaction are deeply interconnected. I work with individuals and couples to improve communication patterns, balance career ambition with relationship needs, and create partnerships that support rather than compete with professional success. For single professionals, I offer dating coaching that addresses the unique challenges of finding meaningful relationships while maintaining demanding careers.
Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety frequently accompanies ambition, and even highly successful individuals experience depression. Through various therapeutic techniques, I help you understand the sources of these challenges and develop effective management strategies that support rather than undermine your performance.
Emotional Resilience
Resilience—the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties—represents a cornerstone of sustained peak performance. I help you develop this crucial capability through reframing setbacks, building emotional regulation skills, and creating self-care practices that maintain psychological resources during stress.
Why Choose Peak Performance Coaching in New Canaan
New Canaan attracts ambitious professionals seeking a high quality of life. My practice offers both in-person and online sessions, providing flexibility that respects your busy schedule while maintaining the same quality of therapeutic relationship and coaching effectiveness.
The combination of my business background and therapeutic training offers a perspective you won't find with most therapists. I understand the world you operate in professionally while also possessing the clinical expertise to address the psychological and emotional dimensions of your challenges.
Take the Next Step Toward Peak Performance
If you're ready to unlock your full potential and create sustainable success across all areas of your life, I invite you to reach out. I work with individuals and couples who are committed to self-improvement and willing to engage actively in the coaching process.
For information about scheduling and session rates, please contact me directly. I'm currently accepting new clients in New Canaan and look forward to supporting your journey toward peak performance.
Peak performance isn't achieved by compartmentalizing your life or sacrificing relationships for career success. Genuine peak performance emerges when all aspects of your life align and support each other. Through personalized coaching that addresses both career and relationship challenges, I help ambitious individuals in New Canaan create sustainable success that reflects their deepest values and highest aspirations.