Tech, finance & startups
Therapy for people in tech, finance, and startups.
Before I trained as a therapist at Columbia, I was a software investor, working at the intersection of finance and tech. I won't pretend I've done your exact job, but your world was my world, and I watched a lot of smart, driven people quietly come apart while their numbers looked great. You won't have to translate any of it for me.
What this kind of work does to a person
The jobs are demanding, but that isn't really the problem — you chose demanding on purpose. The problem is what the environment quietly teaches you. After enough years, "how am I doing" and "how is the work going" become the same question. Comp turns into a scoreboard you check against people who started when you did. The phone makes every evening provisional. And because everyone around you is running the same race, none of it looks unusual enough to question.
Then there are the sharper moments. A layoff or a pivot erases two years of work overnight. Bonus day arrives and the number lands like a grade. An exit or a promotion that was supposed to feel like arrival doesn't, and the seat you finally earned comes with a suspicion attached: that you've fooled them all.
Who ends up in my office
Startup founders and the operators who build alongside them. Software engineers and product people. Analysts, bankers, and investors across private equity, hedge funds, and venture. What they share isn't an industry — it's a New York job that takes everything you'll give it, and the sense that being very good at it has started to cost too much.
What we actually work on
Underneath the industry specifics, the work is recognizable: anxiety that passes for diligence, an inner critic running performance reviews around the clock, and the big one — figuring out who you are when the metric isn't looking. We take it apart the way you'd want it taken apart: directly, with an eye on what you do differently this week.
I also know this is a small industry in a big city. Discretion isn't a feature I advertise; it's the ground the work stands on. What you tell me stays with me.
If this isn't your industry
I lead with this world because I came from it, not because it's an entry requirement. Plenty of my clients are nowhere near tech or finance. If your pressure comes from medicine or law or a classroom or a family, the patterns on this page will read as familiar — and the door is the same one.
Common questions
Do you only work with people in tech and finance?
No. The background means people from this world skip the explaining, but the patterns travel — my caseload is a mix, and the work is the same wherever the pressure comes from.
My industry is small. How does confidentiality work?
Strictly. What you share is confidential, with the narrow, legally defined exceptions around safety that every licensed therapist carries.
Can this work around a demanding schedule?
Yes. I see clients online across New York State, which survives most calendars, and we'll find a time that actually works with yours. Weeks blow up sometimes — when they do, we reschedule and keep going.