Therapy for Elite Athletes Who Learned to Survive Through Toughness
Concierge Psychotherapy for Elite Performers
Private, highly personalized therapy for people who are used to performing at an exceptional level
Success does not make you immune to trauma, relationship problems, self-doubt, loneliness, or patterns that keep repeating.
In fact, the more visible, accomplished, or relied upon you become, the harder it can be to find a space where you do not have to perform.
Concierge psychotherapy offers a private, flexible, high-touch therapeutic relationship for professional athletes, performers, executives, entrepreneurs, and other high-achieving individuals who want more than a traditional once-a-week therapy model.
This is therapy for the person behind the performance.
You may be highly capable—and still feel stuck
You may be someone other people depend on.
You know how to push through discomfort. You know how to stay focused when the stakes are high. You may have built a career, reputation, or life that looks successful from the outside.
But some problems do not respond to discipline.
You may find yourself:
Repeating the same relationship patterns
Struggling to trust people or let them get close
Carrying experiences from your past that you have never fully processed
Feeling responsible for everyone around you
Having difficulty knowing who is safe
Feeling lonely despite being surrounded by people
Becoming emotionally shut down, reactive, or avoidant under stress
Questioning who you are outside of your career or accomplishments
Struggling with transitions, injuries, losses, retirement, or changes in identity
Wanting deeper relationships without knowing how to create them
You do not need someone to teach you how to work harder.
You may need a place where you can stop performing long enough to understand what is actually happening underneath it.
Therapy that goes beyond performance
My work is not sports psychology, performance optimization, or mental skills coaching.
We can talk about performance when it matters—but you are more than what you produce.
Our work may focus on trauma, relationships, attachment, family dynamics, identity, boundaries, emotional regulation, grief, life transitions, vulnerability, and the patterns that developed long before your current success.
The goal is not simply to help you function better.
It is to help you build a life that feels better to live.
Why concierge psychotherapy?
Traditional therapy is often built around a rigid 50-minute weekly appointment.
That model works well for many people. It does not work equally well for everyone.
Elite performers often have unpredictable schedules, travel demands, intense periods of stress, and situations that do not conveniently occur during a scheduled appointment.
Concierge psychotherapy provides a more flexible and personalized level of care.
Depending on the arrangement, your care may include:
Longer or more flexible therapy sessions
Scheduling that accommodates travel, training, performances, or demanding work schedules
Increased access during particularly difficult periods
Intensive sessions when deeper work is appropriate
Virtual sessions when you are traveling
A therapeutic relationship designed around continuity, discretion, and individualized care
The structure is intentionally more personal than a traditional therapy practice while maintaining clear professional and therapeutic boundaries.
A place where you do not have to manage anyone else's reaction
When your career, finances, reputation, or relationships are complicated, deciding whom to trust can become complicated too.
You may be accustomed to wondering:
Who actually cares about me?
Who wants something from me?
What happens if I tell someone what is really going on?
Will they see me differently?
Therapy should be one of the few places where those questions do not have to dominate the room.
You can say the thing you have not said out loud.
You can be uncertain.
You can be angry, scared, ashamed, confused, exhausted, or completely unsure what comes next.
You do not have to protect me from your feelings.
And you do not have to impress me.
Hey, I’m Drew.
Hello!
I am Drew. I provide therapy for people who are exceptionally good at carrying a lot.
You may be successful, driven, accomplished, and very good at figuring things out.
You may also be exhausted from figuring everything out yourself.
I want to know the person behind the performance.
Elite performance creates its own emotional world.
Your body, talent, reputation, career, income, identity, and relationships may be intertwined in ways most people never have to navigate.
There may also be a long history behind the person everyone sees succeeding today.
I am particularly interested in working with athletes and performers who want to understand that history—not because something is wrong with them, but because they are ready to stop letting old experiences quietly run parts of their current lives.
You already know how to perform.
Therapy is where we get interested in who you are when you don't have to.
High achievers become very skilled at functioning.
You learn how to push through. Compartmentalize. Handle the crisis. Make the decision. Meet the deadline. Get on the plane. Show up for everyone else.
Those abilities may have helped you become incredibly successful.
They can also make it very easy to avoid yourself.
Therapy with me is a place where you do not need to impress anyone, manage anyone's reaction, or have the right answer.
We can talk about the things you don't normally say out loud.
The relationship you can't figure out.
The childhood experience you thought you were over.
The people who depend on you.
The pressure of being responsible for other people's livelihoods.
The difficulty knowing who actually wants you and who wants access to what you have built.
The part of you that is confident everywhere except in one particular relationship.
The fear that if you slow down, everything you've been keeping contained might finally catch up with you.
That's the work I'm interested in.
You don't need another person telling you to work harder.
I am not here to optimize your productivity.
And if you're an athlete or performer, I'm not trying to shave a tenth of a second off your time, fix your jump shot, or get you ready for opening night.
I'm interested in your life.
Relationships. Trauma. Attachment. Identity. Family. Boundaries. Grief. Anger. Vulnerability. The things you avoid. The things you repeatedly run toward even when they aren't good for you.
And the experiences that shaped all of it.
Sometimes the very qualities that helped you survive, achieve, or build something remarkable become the qualities that make intimacy, peace, or change difficult later.
We figure that out together.
How I work
The relationship between you and me matters.
My approach is highly relational, influenced strongly by Gestalt therapy. I pay attention not only to what you tell me, but to patterns—how you relate, what you avoid, when you pull away, what makes you angry, what is difficult to ask for, what you expect from other people, and what happens between us in the room.
I'm engaged in therapy.
I ask questions. I notice things. I laugh with my clients. I challenge them. I tell the truth.
I am not going to sit silently and nod at you for 50 minutes while you wonder what I'm thinking.
I also don't expect you to perform therapy correctly.
If something I say doesn't land, tell me.
If you're angry with me, tell me.
If I misunderstand you, I want to know.
For people who are accustomed to being careful about what they say and who they say it to, having a relationship where honesty doesn't threaten the connection can be powerful.
A small practice, intentionally.
I keep my practice small because I want to know my clients really well.
Not just the presenting problem.
I want to understand the people in your life, your history, the patterns we've been watching, what happened six months ago that suddenly matters again today, and what it means when you tell me, "I'm fine," in the particular way you do when you are very much not fine.
That level of relationship is intentional.
For some clients, especially those with demanding or unpredictable lives, I also offer a concierge model with greater flexibility and access than traditional once-a-week psychotherapy.
Privacy isn't a perk. It's foundational.
If you are prominent, recognizable, professionally visible, or responsible for a company or public-facing career, choosing whom to trust can carry unusual consequences.
I understand that.
What you tell me in therapy is clinical information—not gossip, content, publicity, or a business opportunity.
I do not sell or monetize my clients' stories or use their therapy experiences for publicity or marketing.
Your confidentiality is protected within the legal and ethical requirements of psychotherapy, and discretion is a fundamental part of how I practice.
You should be able to walk into therapy knowing that, in this relationship, you are not the product.
I've spent my career getting curious about people.
I've been in this field for most of my adult life, and my path has not been particularly conventional.
I've worked across very different environments and with people facing very different circumstances. What those experiences taught me is that human behavior almost always makes more sense when we understand what happened before it.
People develop strategies to survive their environments.
Then life changes—and sometimes those strategies don't.
Therapy helps us understand what protected you, what is limiting you now, and what you want to choose differently.
My clinical work incorporates approaches including Gestalt therapy, EMDR, and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy when appropriate.
But modalities are tools.
The real work is understanding you.