Therapy for High Achievers, Executives, and Couples in NYC
Discreet, private-pay therapy for high-functioning people who hold it all together — and are quietly worn out by it.
Request a Private ConsultationWho This Is For: Executives, Founders, and High-Functioning Professionals
This is therapy for people who are used to being the strong one. The founder who carries the company. The executive everyone reads for the mood of the room. The creative who can't tell where the work ends and their worth begins. The partner who manages everyone's feelings but their own.
You're high-functioning, capable, and outwardly successful. You may also be inwardly exhausted, anxious, or emotionally constricted. You don't need to fall apart to deserve attention. You just need somewhere to set the weight down.
Maybe you recognize yourself here:
- A high achiever or perfectionist for whom it never feels like enough
- An executive or entrepreneur running on vigilance and adrenaline
- A professional carrying high-functioning anxiety no one else can see
- A creative or performer caught between ambition and self-doubt
- A couple that's competent at everything except each other
What This Work Helps With
We don't rush to solutions. We slow things down enough to understand what's really happening underneath the competence. Together we make room for:
This is depth work. The goal isn't only relief. It's a life that feels like yours again.
Executive Therapy, Explained
Executive therapy is therapy built for the realities of high-stakes, high-visibility lives. It's private. It works around a demanding schedule. And it assumes you're intelligent and capable — so we can skip the small talk and get to what matters.
This is a premium, private-pay practice. I don't bill insurance, which keeps your records out of insurance systems and our work fully confidential. Out-of-network superbills are available if you choose to seek reimbursement.
What that buys you: discretion, depth, and a therapist who is genuinely yours.
Relationship & Couples Counseling
The same patterns that make you effective at work can quietly cost you at home. Control becomes distance. Competence becomes loneliness. The two of you manage everything except the thing between you.
In couples therapy, we slow the conversation down enough to hear what's underneath it — the longing, the fear, the old story each of you is still telling. Brooklyn-based and remote couples are both welcome.
Real change happens in relationship. So does real repair.
About Avi Steinhardt, LCSW
I'm Avi Steinhardt, a licensed clinical social worker in Brooklyn, NY. My work draws from depth psychology, Gestalt therapy, and psychodynamic theory — but what I actually offer is a relationship where real change can take place.
I work slowly and attentively. I'm interested in meaning, not just symptoms; in who you are, not only what's wrong. Too much therapy stops at managing distress. I think there's more on the other side of that — more aliveness, more honesty, more joy.
If that's the kind of work you're looking for, we'll likely do well together.
How to Begin
Starting is simple, and there's no pressure to commit before it feels right.
Reach out.
Tell me a little about what's bringing you here.
We talk.
A brief, private consultation to feel out the fit.
We begin.
If it's right, we schedule a first session and start the work.
In Their Words
My husband and I found Avi when we were in a dark place. Avi was thoughtful, patient with us — and funny!
Since working with Avi, I've grown into the person I want to be—more self-aware, confident, and in touch with my needs.
Avi Steinhardt was an amazing counselor for myself and my family. His kind understanding, and knowledge helped me.
When I speak with Avi, I feel more than heard. His patience has allowed that enlightenment to occur organically.
We came to Avi because we felt trapped in arguments that would end with neither of us feeling understood.