Career Counseling & Work-Life Alignment

When Work Is Taking a Toll on the Rest of Your Life

Career distress has a way of bleeding into everything. The anxiety that starts Sunday evening. The exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix. The gnawing feeling that you’re a fraud despite evidence to the contrary. The grief after a layoff that hits harder than you expected, because you hadn’t realized how much of your identity was tied up in that role.

This is therapy for that. Not resume help. Not interview coaching. I’m a licensed mental health counselor, and my work is with the emotional and psychological weight of career struggles — the patterns underneath the stress, the identity questions career changes surface, and the real grief that professional losses can carry.

I see clients virtually in New York, Connecticut, and Florida, which means I can work with you wherever you are — whether you’re commuting into Manhattan, working remotely in Connecticut, or navigating a career transition from across the country.

Who I Work With

Career distress shows up in many forms. Some of the situations I most often support include:

• Burnout and chronic exhaustion that bleeds into your personal life and relationships
• Feeling stuck or deeply unfulfilled in a role you worked hard to get
• Imposter syndrome — performing competence while privately waiting to be found out
• Workplace anxiety, dread before meetings, or ongoing conflict with a manager or colleague
• Navigating a career pivot and the identity loss and uncertainty that come with it
• Grief after job loss — whether from a layoff, a firing, or a company closure — and the destabilization that follows
• Re-entry after a gap: parental leave, medical leave, caregiving, or time away for any reason
• Entrepreneurs and founders navigating the isolation, pressure, and emotional weight of building something
• Retirement anxiety — losing the identity, structure, and purpose tied to work
• The tension between career ambition and personal values, relationships, or what you actually want from your life

What Therapy for Career Challenges Looks Like

Career struggles rarely exist in a vacuum. They’re connected to patterns — how you were taught to work, what success was supposed to mean, what happens when you stop moving. Our work together can include:

• Untangling work stress from underlying patterns. Perfectionism, people-pleasing, fear of failure — these often drive career distress in ways that no amount of time management can fix. Therapy helps you see the patterns and begin to shift them.

• Processing career grief and professional identity loss. Losing a job, a career path, or a professional identity you’ve held for years is a real loss. We make space for the grief without rushing past it.

• Setting boundaries at work without guilt. Learning to protect your time and energy is a skill — and for many people, it requires working through deep-seated beliefs about what you owe your employer, your colleagues, or your own ambition.

• Exploring values misalignment. Sometimes the work itself is fine — but something feels off. Therapy creates space to examine what you actually want, separate from what you’ve been told to want.

• Building resilience without toxic positivity. Real resilience isn’t about staying positive. It’s about developing a genuine relationship with your own capacity — knowing your limits, honoring them, and rebuilding when you’ve pushed past them. We also explore how this work connects to life transitions more broadly, especially when career change is reshaping your sense of self.