Psychotherapy for Leaders

Being a great leader in today’s world is a fascinating process. Massive waves of creativity and change are rolling through our world. The therapists at Psyched in San Francisco come from the real world, with backgrounds in high-tech, business, social entrepreneurship, and other industries, and we understand intimately the challenges that leaders face today. More importantly, we work with leaders using proven strategies to raise your game—transforming anxiety, fear, and difficult relationships into opportunities for advancement and evolution.

We see leadership as an everyday practice—something like meditation—a power to both return to your center and to keep moving forward no matter what is going on. No one enjoys making mistakes or weathering emergencies, but great leaders learn from mistakes and keep taking educated risks to make things better. Our practice also helps with this—what does it really mean to learn from a mistake? How do we improve and grow in a “gotcha” culture?

We know that effective leaders enlist the energy and support of others to accomplish great things by employing vision, strategic thinking, and charisma, but great leaders also have the tools of heart, conscientiousness, and openness.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. —Warren Bennis

We agree with Warren Bennis—but the question then becomes how are they made? How do leaders learn to be influencers, winning hearts and minds and empowering others to thrive and be brilliant? It begins with inner work; understanding yourself and knowing what is really going on inside of you. As the latin proverb says, “It is absurd that a man [or woman] should rule others, who cannot rule himself.”

This mastery over the inner game of leadership is what we offer—strategic insight, coping with the dark emotions that come up in business (and in life) and learning to lead naturally, by example—by being an inspiring person to follow. We have helped leaders all over the Bay Area crush their goals and exceed everyone’s expectations—you can be next.