High-performing male professionals often execute their work tasks and live with extreme accuracy and efficiency. However, high-performance roles can increase one’s stress, anxiety, need to be perfect, and fear of failure. These factors can then impede a high-performing professional’s performance. This post explores the benefits of individual therapy to manage stress and functioning among high-performing male professionals in Wisconsin.
The Hidden Stress of High-Performing Professionals
On the surface, being in a high-performing professional role may look wonderful. But this role can also be fraught with anxiety, stress, fear, failure, and a need to be perfect. Self-doubt, low levels of self-esteem, or a fragile self-image can underpin many of the above challenges. All of which individual therapy near you can help you address and improve.
Why High Achievers Struggle to Ask for Help
Because of a higher achiever’s role, asking for support can be seen as a sign of weakness or not having everything put together perfectly. If others see this, then the high achiever may fear what others may think, their judgments, rumors, and what the fallout may be. Individual therapy is confidential and can be a place to let down your guard.
How Individual Therapy Supports Stress Management and Emotional Resilience
An individual therapist near you can help you find calm and peace within your body. This will help with execution and functioning in the workplace and your daily life. As you learn to manage stress and regulate the body and nervous system, your personal life will also improve. Not only that, but your emotional resilience and ability to tolerate discomfort will increase. Thus, your quality of life will begin to shift in a more positive direction.
Therapy as a Performance Optimization Tool
Yes, there are mental health benefits related to individual therapy. However, therapy can also help increase your performance and execution. By calming the body and regulating the nervous system, you can increase focus, clarity, and present moment attention. This can help you stay on task in order to resolve challenges in business as they arise.
Individual therapy for high performers will look different for every person. Our first few sessions will be tailored toward getting to know one another and building professional rapport. Then we will start targeting stress and begin to regulate the body through somatic experiencing therapy interventions. This will help you dial in on areas of tension in your body and deactivate the stress while increasing awareness. Over time, a therapist will help you target different areas of stress, emotion, insecurity, fear, and worry that show up in life. There’s no set time that therapy needs to last. Every person is unique with their own story and healing journey.
Choosing the Right Therapist for High-Functioning Professionals
It’s important that you find and interview a few different therapists to ensure you’re a good fit to work together. Most therapists near you provide free 15-minute consultation calls.
Currently, I am accepting new clients for both in-person therapy as well as online therapy sessions. I have found that in-person sessions work best for those who live near Union Grove, Bristol, Mount Pleasant, and Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. Virtual therapy sessions work best for those who live throughout the state of Wisconsin.
If you are tired of the pressure and stress and would like to move forward with starting individual therapy, you can give me a call at 720. 295. 6703. Or you can submit a form by following this link here. I look forward to hearing from you.
