Therapy for Attorneys, Physicians, and Senior Professionals
I work confidentially with attorneys, physicians, federal and agency leadership, founders, and other senior professionals across the Washington region — people whose judgment other people depend on, and whose roles reward a particular kind of composure while punishing any visible crack in it. Which is often why the people in these positions who most need to talk to someone are the last to do it. The Washington region runs on people whose judgment other people depend on. Litigators, physicians, federal executives, agency leadership, founders, senior staff. The work rewards a particular kind of composure — and it punishes any visible crack in it.
Which is why the people in these roles who most need to talk to someone are often the last to do it.
What tends to bring people in
- Sustained pressure that has stopped feeling temporary
- Sleep that went first and never came back
- Drinking that has become the only reliable way to stop working
- A marriage running on logistics
- Success that has stopped registering as success
- Genuine uncertainty about whether you want to keep doing this
Why discretion is structural here, not just promised
This is a fee-for-service practice. No claim is filed, no diagnosis is submitted to an insurer, and no treatment record enters a payer’s database or the utilization review systems that draw on it. Your record stays here.
I want to be precise rather than reassuring about this: private payment does not change your obligations to disclose treatment where a licensing body, bar admission process, or security clearance investigation asks you directly. What it changes is the number of third parties who hold a copy of your file without ever having asked you.
Why my background is relevant
I spend a significant part of my professional life as a forensic psychologist — conducting court-ordered evaluations, testifying, and consulting to correctional systems and federal courts. I am comfortable in high-stakes, adversarial, consequence-heavy environments, and I am not easily rattled by what people in demanding roles actually do and think. I am also used to being held to an evidentiary standard. That habit does not switch off in the consulting/therapy space.
Practical details
Early morning and evening appointments are available. Sessions are 55 minutes at $275, in person or by secure video across DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
Start with a brief consultation call. No intake paperwork, no commitment.