MEN IN TECH & DEMANDING CAREERS
Therapy for men in tech, business and demanding careers.
You can be doing well professionally and still be sleeping badly, carrying work into dinner or spending days replaying one performance conversation.
Tech, product and business are familiar contexts from more than 18 years working in them.
The professional culture matters
Technology roles often combine rapid change, visible performance and unclear boundaries around responsibility. Teams change, priorities move, roles get redefined and a manager leaving can turn the job you accepted into a different job very quickly.
Those details matter because they shape the pressure around the problem. They do not need to be translated into generic language about work-life balance before therapy can begin.
When work continues after hours
A common pattern is that the workday ends before the thinking does.
You are at dinner but still replaying a product review. You are on holiday and checking whether somebody replied. You have a difficult conversation tomorrow and are already having it in your head tonight.
The same behaviour can come from burnout, anxiety, habit, responsibility or simply a role that is taking too much attention. We work out which one we are dealing with.
Performance and self-worth
Professional feedback can start affecting self-worth more than the event itself would suggest.
A good review gives relief. A bad one ruins the weekend. Somebody else gets promoted and the reaction is much bigger than the practical consequence.
The workplace offers endless opportunities to measure yourself.
What happens at home
The effects often show up at home before they affect performance at work.
Your partner gets a version of you that has very little patience left. A normal request feels like one more task. You keep explaining why this month is unusually intense, and eventually your partner stops believing that next month will be different.
Therapy with me
Sessions start with the problem that brought you in. A difficult job stays a work problem until there is a reason to look further. A relationship problem stays a relationship problem. A decision that has remained open for months deserves a closer look at what is keeping it open.
Professional context matters, but it does not become the explanation for everything else in your life.
My background
Before psychotherapy, I spent most of my career in product and growth. The environment is familiar enough that sessions do not need to begin with a long explanation of how it works.
Common questions
Is this only for people in technology?
No. Technology is the environment I know most deeply, but I also work with men in other demanding professional careers.
Do I need to be a founder or executive?
No. Senior individual contributors, consultants, managers and business owners can fit this practice as well.
What if my main issue is my relationship?
Then we work on the relationship. Your profession is context, not the subject you are required to talk about.
Contact
If this sounds like the kind of context you want your therapist to understand, get in touch.