Online Therapy · CA & FL

The tech industry
takes everything.
You deserve space
to take something back.

You solve hard problems for a living. But the hardest ones — who you are when you're not performing, what burnout has cost you, whether this is still what you want — those need a different kind of work.

Private pay — no insurance records
100% online · CA & FL
Therapy for Tech Industry Professionals — Dr. Anissa York, PsyD

You've optimized everything except how you're actually doing.

The tech industry rewards output, speed, and continuous improvement — and punishes the appearance of struggle. You've learned to perform resilience even when you're running on fumes. The metrics look good. You don't.

Therapy is the one place where there's no performance review. No sprint planning. No KPI attached to your progress. Just the actual work of figuring out what's happening and what you want to do about it.

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"I've been promoted twice and I still feel like I'm one mistake away from being found out."

"I haven't taken a real day off in two years. I don't even know what I'd do with one."

"The layoff hit me harder than I thought it would. My whole identity was tied up in that company."

"I'm anxious all the time but I can't tell if it's the job or just who I am now."

"I'm technically senior but I feel junior in every room I'm in."

"AI is changing everything and I don't know if I'm irrelevant or overreacting."

The specific pressures of tech — addressed directly.

These are the patterns I most commonly work through with engineers, PMs, founders, designers, and tech executives.

The Performance Trap

Burnout & Chronic Exhaustion

When the job becomes your whole identity and the work never actually stops, burnout accumulates quietly until it becomes impossible to ignore. We address the roots — not just the symptoms — and build something more sustainable.

Always Present, Never Enough

Imposter Syndrome

The constant sense that you don't actually deserve your role, your salary, or your title — and that someone will eventually notice. Particularly acute in environments where everyone around you seems to know something you don't.

The Invisible Loss

Layoffs, Transitions & Career Grief

Being laid off — even with a severance package — is a significant loss. So is leaving a company you built your identity around. The grief, disorientation, and anxiety that follow deserve real attention, not just a LinkedIn update.

The Future of Work

AI Anxiety & Existential Career Stress

The fear of obsolescence, uncertainty about where your career goes, and the disorienting pace of change in the field. We work through what these shifts actually mean for you — separate from the noise.

Outside the Office

Relationships & Life Beyond Work

When work expands to fill every hour and your relationships, health, and hobbies have quietly disappeared. Building a life that exists independently of your professional output.

The Founder Tax

Startup Stress & Founder Wellbeing

Founders carry unique psychological weight — the responsibility to employees, investors, and a vision. The isolation at the top. The identity fusion with the company. The fear that the company's struggles are a personal failure.

Therapy that respects how you think.

I work in a direct, analytical, no-filler style. I won't ask you to sit with feelings for the sake of it. I won't give you generic coping tools you could find on a wellness app. I take your intelligence seriously and work with it rather than around it.

I'm also aware that privacy matters differently in tech. Private pay means no insurance records, no diagnostic trail in your employer's health database, and no paper connecting your mental health care to your career.

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Direct & EfficientNo filler. Sessions move quickly and stay focused on what's actually driving the problem.

Evidence-BasedApproaches grounded in research — not intuition-based or loosely defined.

Completely PrivatePrivate pay only. No insurance records, no employer databases, no trail.

Understands the CultureFamiliar with engineering culture, startup environments, big tech pressure, and the specific psychology of high-performance technical work.

What changes when you do this work.

Not overnight. But genuinely, concretely — in ways that show up in your work, your relationships, and your relationship with yourself.

01

Performance anxiety that no longer runs the show

02

A stable sense of self that doesn't depend on your job title

03

Boundaries that actually hold — without guilt or collapse

04

Relationships that aren't running on the scraps of your energy

05

Clarity about what you actually want from your career

06

A nervous system that can genuinely rest — not just crash

07

Processed grief from layoffs, failures, and paths not taken

08

A life that feels like yours — not just your output

Dr. Anissa York

I work well with people who think analytically and feel deeply — even if that combination has caused problems.

Many tech professionals come to therapy skeptical. That's fine. I work in a way that respects analytical intelligence and doesn't require you to perform emotional openness before you're ready for it. We build from what's real.

I'm also direct. I'll tell you what I'm observing, offer hypotheses, and work with you to test them — not unlike debugging, except the system is you.

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The work is hard. You don't have to do it alone.

Your free consultation is a confidential, no-pressure conversation. No performance required.

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Questions? connect@dranissayork.com  ·  619-333-3963