Currently accepting online clients only  ·  Telehealth sessions available throughout Tennessee and Malaysia

Therapy for Professionals & Executives · Brentwood, TN · Online Sessions

You've mastered your career. Your marriage deserves the same.

Before I was a therapist, I sat on your side of the desk. I know what a 70-hour work week does to intimacy — and I won't ask you to 'just work less' to fix it.

"I don't do passive therapy. As a former corporate professional, my approach is active, strategic, and designed for couples who value clear communication and measurable progress."

"You don't need a therapist who is intimidated by your success or your schedule. You need a peer who understands the unique tax that ambition places on a marriage."

You are not the typical therapy client — and this is not typical therapy

You have built something impressive. You lead teams, solve complex problems, make high-stakes decisions under pressure — and you do it well. People around you see competence and control. They rarely see what it costs.

The relentless pace that makes you exceptional at work creates a specific kind of damage at home. Not dramatic — quiet. The intimacy that fades so gradually you can't pinpoint exactly when it went. The conversations that stay at the surface. The partner who has learned to stop asking. The sense that you are sharing a life but no longer really sharing it.

Many professionals arrive in therapy having already read the books, listened to the podcasts, and understood the problem with analytical precision. They can describe the negative cycle. They just can't feel their way out of it. That gap — between understanding and actually changing — is exactly what this therapy addresses.

Analysis is not healing. Understanding your relationship patterns intellectually and actually shifting them emotionally are two entirely different things. This is where most therapy fails driven people — and where EFT succeeds.

I have lived in your world

Before I became a therapist, I spent years as a telecommunications RF Senior Engineer and consultant — working with leading global telecoms companies across Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and South Asia. I traveled up to 250 days a year. I helped design and build 2G, 3G, and 4G networks for mobile operators across the region. I supported multi-million dollar tenders and high-stakes sales projects across multiple countries and cultures.

I know what it means to live out of a suitcase. To measure success in deliverables and contract values. To operate at a high technical level across cultures and time zones — and to return home, finally, and find that you and your partner have become strangers. To be surrounded by colleagues and still profoundly alone. To be fluent in the language of performance and completely lost in the language of intimacy.

That background is not incidental to my clinical work. It is why professionals find something different when they sit across from me. I do not need your world explained. I will not be intimidated by your intelligence or your schedule. And I will not waste your time.

What professionals actually experience in their relationships

The successful couple who have lost each other

You built a life together that looks impressive from the outside — careers, home, children, financial security. Inside, you feel like business partners. You coordinate logistics efficiently. The arguments, if they happen at all, circle the same territory without resolution. The intimacy — physical and emotional — has faded so gradually that neither of you can say exactly when it went.

This is not a communication problem. It is an attachment problem. And it has a very specific solution.

The analytical mind that can't feel its way through

You can diagnose the problem with clinical precision. You've read the research. You understand the pursuer-withdrawer dynamic. You know what attachment theory says about your childhood. And yet the moment you're in the middle of a conflict with your partner, everything you understand intellectually disappears and you react from somewhere much older.

Understanding is not the same as healing. EFT works at the level where the actual change happens — not in the mind, but in the body and in the emotional bond between you.

The high performer who holds everything together — for everyone else

You are the one people rely on. At work. In your family. In your community. You are decisive, steady under pressure, and competent in every domain of your life — except, quietly, this one. The cost of that steadiness is often invisible even to you, until something breaks. Burnout that goes deeper than tiredness. A relationship that has been running on fumes for longer than you want to admit.

The professional who keeps coming home to a stranger

If your career has required significant travel, international work, or the kind of absorption that leaves nothing for the relationship — I understand that particular damage in a way that most therapists do not. The disorientation of returning. The resentment that builds on both sides without anyone meaning it to. The way a relationship becomes obligation rather than belonging.

Why previous therapy may not have worked

Many professionals have tried therapy before and left disappointed. The therapist couldn't keep pace intellectually. The approach felt too surface-level — worksheets and communication scripts that you saw through immediately. The pace was too slow for someone who expected measurable progress.

Or perhaps the therapist treated your drive, your analytical nature, and your directness as symptoms to manage rather than capacities to engage. Some therapists are subtly intimidated by high-status clients and let them run the session from behind their intelligence — which means nothing actually changes.

I do not work that way. Your standards are appropriate. Your skepticism is reasonable. I will meet your intellect and then take you somewhere your intellect alone cannot reach.

What a different kind of therapy looks like

We do not start with worksheets. We start by understanding the pattern — the specific cycle you and your partner are caught in, beneath the content of every argument you've ever had. Once that pattern is named and understood, we go to work on what is actually driving it.

Using Emotionally Focused Therapy — the most research-validated couples therapy in the world — we access the deeper emotional experience beneath the analytical surface. The fears that get hidden behind competence. The unmet needs that get expressed as criticism or withdrawal. The attachment injuries that never fully healed.

This is active, rigorous, and evidence-based work. You will not be asked to share feelings without purpose or sit in silence waiting for insight. Every session moves somewhere.

A note on confidentiality

For executives, physicians, attorneys, and public figures, privacy is not a preference — it is a requirement. All sessions are conducted online via a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform. There is no waiting room. No chance encounters. No paperwork that travels beyond our work together. Discretion is foundational, not optional.

What I offer

Session fees: $225 for 60 minutes · $315 for 90 minutes. Intensive formats available — fees discussed during consultation. Private pay only. Superbill provided for potential out-of-network reimbursement.

Ready to take the first step?

Schedule a complimentary 20-minute consultation — a direct, confidential conversation about what you are navigating.

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Credentials & memberships

Verified by Psychology Today
ICEEFT Certified EFT Therapist
AAMFT Clinical Fellow
LMFT Tennessee #1970
CCTP Certified Trauma Professional
MyMFT Clinical Member #0021