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Therapy for Professionals: Balancing High Achievement and Mental Health
If you’re a high-achieving professional, you likely pride yourself on delivering results, anticipating problems, and setting a high bar for yourself and your team. Those strengths can also become stress traps—fueling perfectionism, overwork, and a constant sense that “it’s never enough.” Over time, the combination of unrelenting standards, round-the-clock availability, and fear of failure increases risk for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and burnout (Hewitt & Flett, 1991;

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