Bette Maisel, PsyD · Clinical Psychologist • Professor of Postmodern Family Therapy
Dr. Bette
Maisel
Psychotherapy for Leaders
& Professionals
Psychological depth for complicated professional lives.
The idea behind the practice
Problems don't exist in a vacuum.
The way I understand it, the way we respond to stress, relationships, work, and responsibility develops in context. Sometimes patterns that once made sense stop working. Sometimes the problem isn't simply within the person at all—it also lives in the expectations, relationships, roles, and systems around them.
I offer a place to get curious about those patterns without reducing you to them. Together, we can understand how a problem developed, what keeps it going, and what might allow something different to emerge.
For leaders and professionals, that can mean looking not only at what is happening internally, but also at the environments in which you are being asked to function—the pressures of leadership, organizational culture, family roles, identity, relationships, and the expectations you carry for yourself and from others.
What people arrive with
Reasons people start, in their own words.
Running on reserves, with the work still getting done
A mind that works differently than the system expects
Thinking that has quietly become the problem
The same pattern repeating with different people
Being the person everyone else depends on
Weighing a bigger role, or a change to the system you work in
Standing between two versions of your life
The approach
Understanding first.
Then change that holds.
I don't limit the work to reducing symptoms. I look closely at the patterns underlying how you think, relate, lead, perform, and respond to pressure—then I help translate that understanding into different choices, conversations, and ways of living.
About meWho I work with
Executives, founders, physicians, attorneys, academics, and other people used to being relied upon.
Read moreApproach
Evidence-based, trauma-informed, and unusually practical about ordinary weeks.
Read moreAlso available
I may also offer executive coaching and professional consultation separately, on request. They are distinct services from psychotherapy, with a different scope and structure. More on that.
A first conversation