FOUNDERS & BUSINESS OWNERS
Therapy for entrepreneurs, founders and business owners.
Founding or owning a business makes it difficult to separate work from the rest of life. Money, staff, relationships and your own sense of identity can become tied to the same decisions.
Therapy can help when that overlap starts creating problems in the company, at home or in the way you are functioning yourself.
Ownership changes the stakes
An employee can decide to resign. A founder deciding whether to step back is also thinking about staff, customers, investors and a relationship that has already organised years of life around the company.
That is why stepping back can be more complicated than reducing hours or delegating more work.
Working harder
There is always another customer to call, another number to check or another operational problem that genuinely deserves attention.
At some point, more activity stops improving the situation and starts functioning mainly as a way to manage uncertainty.
Co-founders and partners
A co-founder disagreement is rarely only a strategic disagreement once trust has deteriorated. By then, a conversation about the roadmap may also be carrying years of dependency, competition, loyalty and resentment.
Partners live with the company too. They live with the late nights, financial risk, interrupted holidays and the sentence “after this quarter” being repeated for the fourth time.
After growth, funding or exit
Pressure can hide questions for a long time because there is always something urgent to do.
Then the round closes, the company becomes profitable, a senior hire takes over more of the operation or the business is sold. The expected relief is smaller than expected.
My background
Before psychotherapy, I ran a consultancy for seven years, built two startups and spent most of my previous career working with technology companies.
That experience is useful context, but therapy is not startup advice. The operating environment can be understood without turning the session into a strategy meeting.
Therapy or coaching?
If you need to evaluate a business or career decision, Professional Coaching may be enough.
If the company is entangled with anxiety, relationships, self-worth, grief or a pattern that keeps repeating despite good advice, Individual Psychotherapy gives us more room.
Contact
If the company is taking up more of your life than you want it to, book a consultation.