While our professional lives can be rewarding, stimulating, and provide purpose, they also carry unique stressors. Professionals are often burdened with the constant pressure for results-driven achievement, unsatisfactory work-life balance and competing demands, and difficult interpersonal workplace dynamics. Many of these stresses have also been intensified by the evolving impacts of the pandemic.
Therapy provides a confidential space to explore these issues. Many professionals find that therapy provides an opportunity to relieve the pressure of wearing a “mask of invincibility” and that attending to these domains plays an integral role in enhancing life satisfaction. While the function and nature of therapy fundamentally differs from executive coaching, often therapy has the additional benefit of improving professional functioning.