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Trauma therapy for high-functioning professionals in Palo Alto and Portola Valley

Trauma in High-Functioning Adults: How You Can Carry It Without Knowing It

When many people hear the word trauma, they imagine something catastrophic. Violence.Severe abuse.Overt crisis. And while those experiences are absolutely traumatic, trauma is not defined by how dramatic an event appears from the outside. Trauma is defined by how the nervous system encodes an experience. You can be successful, competent, and outwardly stable — and […]

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Burnout therapy for high-performing professionals in Palo Alto and Portola Valley

Burnout in High-Performing Professionals: What’s Actually Happening Underneath

In Silicon Valley, burnout is often minimized. It gets described as: • A demanding quarter• A scaling challenge• A staffing gap• A temporary dip in motivation But if you are a high-performing professional and something feels different lately — flatter, thinner, less resilient — you may already sense that this is not just a busy

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