Meet Dr. Stahl – Your Partner in Excellence

With over 25 years of clinical experience and post-doctoral training in leadership, Dr. Stahl helps executives, entrepreneurs, and creatives unlock their potential, overcome obstacles, and live and work with clarity, purpose, and extraordinary impact. She has guided hundreds of top executives, innovative creatives, and brilliant minds through personal, professional, and creative challenges with exceptional results.

Executives, leaders, founders, entrepreneurs, CEOs, high-potential managers, and other professionals in high-stakes roles.

Partners and families of executives and creatives.

Creatives, innovators, artists, writers, entertainment industry professionals, designers, and other visionary professionals.

Clientele

Services

Targeted Psychotherapy for Executives, Entrepreneurs, and Creatives

Dr. Stahl helps executives, entrepreneurs, and creatives develop the emotional agility, clarity of purpose, and high-level performance that their work demands. Whether you’re leading a team, building a company, launching a project, or navigating creative blocks, her guidance fosters both personal growth and professional impact. Or just trying to find meaning in life and work.

Couples & Family Support for High-Pressure Lifestyles

High-achieving professionals face unique relationship challenges. Dr. Stahl helps clients balance ambition with intimacy, improve communication, manage conflict, and build stronger, more effective relationships at home and at work.

Life with a driven professional can be exciting, but it may also place strain on relationships and family life. Dr. Stahl works with partners and families of high-achieving professionals to ensure healthy role balance, strengthen connection, and create more fulfilling relationships. She also supports couples in developing effective parenting strategies and helps families create a resilient, nurturing foundation where children can truly thrive.

Areas of Focus

• Personal and professional development

• Relationship dynamics

• Interpersonal effectiveness

• Resilience under pressure

• Managing self-doubt, burnout, self-sabotage, and perfectionism

• Leadership and executive coaching

• Creativity and performance

• Life and career transitions

• Work-life balance

• Overcoming internal blocks or external pressures

• Managing power imbalances

• Interacting with challenging personalities

• Maintaining emotional stability in dysfunctional environments

Approach

Dr. Stahl’s approach is grounded in both science and real-world insight—blending evidence-based psychology with practical leadership development. Whether you’re wrestling with self-doubt, leading a growing team, or seeking to reclaim your creative voice, she offers tools and perspectives that go beyond surface-level strategies, helping you lead, create, and live with greater self-awareness and impact.

At the core of Dr. Stahl’s work is a belief in growth through disciplined self-awareness, insight and connection. She helps clients explore the patterns that shape their lives and relationships, and supports them in building healthier, more authentic ways of being. Sessions are collaborative, non-judgmental, and personalized to meet your goals. Whether you're looking to deepen your understanding of yourself or improve how you relate to others, she will partner with you in finding your personal path to meaningful change.

A Word from Dr. Stahl

Meaningful change comes about when clients are ready to explore their thoughts, feelings, and patterns with openness and curiosity. My approach works best for those willing to engage honestly with themselves and reflect deeply on their experiences. If this resonates with you, I invite you to reach out for a brief consultation to explore your goals and see if we might be a good fit.

Joan D.

I reached out to Dr. Stahl during one of the most painful moments of my life. My marriage felt like it was falling apart, and I was preparing for divorce. In our very first session, she helped me see the situation in a completely different way. With clarity and compassion, she explored the dynamics underlying my husband’s sudden shift, including the potential role of substance use. She helped me communicate with him in a way that was honest, grounded, and constructive.

Following her guidance, even though it differed completely from the advice of my own father (who is also a therapist), was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Through those conversations with my husband, we reconnected with the deep love we still had for each other. Today, our marriage is healthier and our relationship is much closer than ever before. Dr. Stahl literally saved my marriage and I’m profoundly grateful to her.

Daniel M.

I’ve been composing music since I was 14. Music has always been at the center of my life. I moved to Los Angeles to build a recording company, full of passion and ambition. But after some difficult business decisions, everything fell apart. Within three years, my savings were gone, and my confidence disappeared with it.

For two years I couldn’t write. I felt blocked, discouraged, and ashamed—my hands would literally shake when I picked up my guitar. That’s when I began working with Dr. Stahl. She helped me work through the grief and self-doubt that had taken over. She helped recognize not only what had led to my financial losses but also what had been holding back my creative potential.

Our work didn’t just help me recover, it helped me grow into a much more grounded and self-assured person. By the time we finished, I was writing again, performing again, and had regained both my artistic confidence and my financial footing.

Working with Dr. Stahl helped me reclaim my creativity and my trust in myself.

Client Experiences

Burnout in Executives and High-Performing Professionals

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Parenting in High-Performing Families

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Articles

A reflection on burnout as a psychological signal rather than a failure.

Why do some children of high-achieving professionals struggle with motivation?