Therapy for high-achieving adults — because managing everything on your own only goes so far.
Two common starting points
Overwhelmed
You've been meaning to see a therapist for a while. Work, relationships, and the general weight of a demanding life have built up, and you've reached the point where talking to a spouse or friend isn't enough. You need someone unbiased who will help you make sense of it and move forward.
A specific issue at a breaking point
Something specific such as increasing anxiety or panic attacks have crossed a threshold. It may not be new, but it's become impossible to ignore. Often there's broader stress in the background that's made it harder to manage.
Client examples
Excelling at work, still searching for the right partner
She's in her late twenties, doing well by every external measure, and quietly exhausted by the effort it takes to maintain that. Work is demanding and she's good at it. But the relationship she wants feels out of reach, and an anxiety that never fully switches off makes it hard to figure out what she actually needs.
Successful enough to step back — but not sure when or who he'd be
He's at a point where stepping back is possible. By most measures, he's succeeded. But when he tries to picture his days without a title, without the pace, without the sense of being needed — the picture goes blank. Work is consuming him, but the alternative is hard to imagine.
Navigating a parent's death while life doesn't pause
She lost both parents within a few years of each other. Now she's managing an estate, complicated family dynamics with siblings, and legal decisions she's never had to make before — while holding down a demanding job and raising young kids that don't slow down for any of it. Grief is part of it, but so is the sheer logistics of something no one prepared her for.
Carrying the family financially — and feeling it at home
She earns significantly more than her husband and carries most of the financial weight for their family. The pride and the resentment coexist. The division of domestic labor has become a significant source of tension. In sessions, she's untangling what she wants versus what she's quietly accepted.
The company is thriving. Everything else is harder to look at.
His startup has taken off, and by most external measures things are going well. But the pace has been relentless, and he's starting to notice what it's cost him — in his relationships, his health, and the parts of his life he's put on hold. In sessions, he's slowing down long enough to ask harder questions about who he is outside of what he's built.
Anxiety: specialized clinical training
Dr. Gupta has spent over a decade treating anxiety disorders in high-achieving NYC professionals — in finance, startups, technology, media, medicine, and law. She applies that expertise across the full spectrum: from clients who meet diagnostic criteria to those with significant symptoms who don't. Common concerns include:
Health anxiety
Generalized anxiety
Panic attacks
OCD and obsessive thoughts
Insomnia
Public speaking
The training behind the work
Dr. Gupta has extensive clinical experience with anxiety disorders. She trained in the Cognitive Therapy Clinic at Weill Cornell / NY Presbyterian hospital, and taught courses in clinical psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University for six years. Her clinical work draws on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), emotion regulation, mindfulness-based therapies, and attachment-based therapies.