therapy for tech people
product managers | engineers | program managers | user researchers | designers
Working on the product development side of tech can be incredibly challenging. Often you’re asked to hit unrealistic or unreasonable deadlines by higher ups who don’t fully grasp what they’re asking for. Other times you’re tasked with a project that you either don’t believe in or don’t think should take priority, but have little recourse. Given the powerful combination of creativity and logic you possess as a professional problem-solver, it’s no wonder that these conditions can be disheartening at best, and soul crushing at worst.
burnout • anxiety • chronic stress • overwhelm • depression • work relationship challenges
Reach out for a 15-minute consultation call.
for “little m” managers
You know the drill. As a product or program manager, you’re often a manager in name only, which means you have the unique, challenging, and oftentimes incredibly rewarding task of leading a diverse mix of people across disciplines without actually having managerial control over anything. In the best of times you probably thrive under a little pressure, love a good challenge—maybe you’re even a little competitive, and have a ton of intrinsic motivation to get shit done.
The exact things that make you great as a product or program manger, though, can make things really hard for you when you become too overburdened by unrealistic expectations, looming deadlines, micromanaging bosses, and a lack of respect from partner functions. If you thrive in a world of making things happen despite all the odds, then there’s a good chance you will struggle if it feels like you have been systematically stripped of your agency.
no matter your role, therapy can help
Therapy is a unique process that can help us get curious about what’s happening beneath the surface, both at work and in our personal lives. Your experience at any given moment is the culmination of multiple variables, including systemic forces cultural norms, situational pressures, your internal world (and all that has happened in your life to inform it), as well as the internal worlds of all of those around you. In therapy, we have the chance to start noticing and naming what’s going on at all of those different layers as well as dive deeper into how your internal world both impacts and is impacted by your experience of those layers.
Along with a deeper awareness of what’s happening, you will expand your resilience to tough situations by learning to attune to and work with your nervous system. You’ll also learn to reconnect to your own bodily wisdom (in other words, trust your gut) so that you can feel confident when it’s time to make a change or walk away. Because no one should be stuck in burnout or misery.
