How can psychologists in Atlanta help clients manage perfectionist tendencies in their professional lives?
A report that should have taken an afternoon is on its eleventh revision at eleven at night, and it is no better than it was three…
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A report that should have taken an afternoon is on its eleventh revision at eleven at night, and it is no better than it was three…
A business folds, a long investment collapses, a job ends and the savings drain faster than expected, and what arrives is rarely just a budgeting problem.…
A capable engineer starts a new role and spends the first month convinced everyone in the room understands something she is missing. A person who has…
A student calculates, again, what grade the next exam needs to be in order to keep an average from slipping, and the number itself starts to…
Much of the conversation around chronic pain and disability focuses on the body, on diagnoses, treatments, and physical limits. What gets discussed far less is the…
The body often starts before the mind catches up. Hours before a presentation, the stomach tightens, the night’s sleep thins out, and by the time a…
Envy is one of the few emotions almost no one will admit to, which is part of what makes it so corrosive. A friend shares good…
A person has had two job offers sitting in their inbox for nine days. They have made three spreadsheets. They have asked everyone they know, and…
The retirement was earned, the parenthood was wanted, the sobriety was fought for. And yet the person who arrives in a psychologist’s office is unsettled in…
A person finishes a presentation that went fine, walks back to their desk, and a voice in their head is already running commentary: that pause was…
Someone gets along fine with coworkers, holds a steady conversation at a party, and would never describe themselves as shy. Yet the moment a casual acquaintance…
A manager is asked a direct question in a meeting and her mind goes white, the answer she knew a second ago now somewhere out of…
Three months out from a cross-country move or a career switch, a low, persistent dread sets in: the spreadsheets are half-built, the research tabs keep multiplying,…
The voice often does not sound like cruelty from the inside. It sounds like standards. “Don’t get complacent.” “You should be further along by now.” “If…
A holiday dinner is three weeks away, and a grown adult who manages a department all year long notices the dread starting already. The same role…
Many people who criticize themselves harshly are not trying to feel bad. They are trying to get better. Somewhere along the way they absorbed the idea…
The Sunday-evening dread is one of the more telling signals. A person who once felt at least neutral about Monday now feels their chest tighten as…
A person caring for an aging parent, a chronically ill spouse, or a child with significant needs often arrives in therapy apologizing before they begin. They…
One of the harder things to explain to someone who has not lived it is how love and fear can occupy the same relationship at the…
Graduate study and high-stakes certification carry a kind of stress that does not map neatly onto regular school. The material is harder, but that is the…
For weeks the calendar has been clearing itself: fewer obligations, no one waiting on a ride, a role other people no longer need filled. On paper…
When a trauma threatens to deliver more feeling than a person can process, the mind sometimes trips a kind of circuit breaker and shuts the feeling…
After a serious trauma, some people report not panic or grief but a strange vacancy, as if they were watching their own life on a delay…
A person walks into a gathering already certain they will say the wrong thing, and that certainty changes how they carry themselves: shoulders tight, voice flattened,…
A graduate student stops showing up to the final stretch of a degree they spent years pursuing. A founder lets a promising deal go quiet by…