Therapy for executives · Palm Beach Gardens, FL · Virtual FL & CT
For the Executive Who's Never Allowed to Fall Apart
You built your career on being the one who handles it. The board panics, you don't. The team unravels under deadline, you're still the calmest person in the room. People have learned they can hand you their crises and walk away lighter. You've never once gotten to do that.
That capability is real. It's also the thing that's quietly running you into the ground.
These credentials represent advanced training in integrative coaching, counseling, and Somatic Experiencing — the specific frameworks that inform how this work is done.
Hi! I'm Jennifer Goggin, LPC, LMHC, SEP. You can call me Jen. I'm a licensed psychotherapist and certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. I work with high-achieving executives, founders, physicians, and attorneys who are performing at the highest level and privately stressed. In-person in Palm Beach Gardens and telehealth throughout Florida and Connecticut.
This isn't a leadership-coaching problem
The Pattern Beneath the Performance
You've probably already tried that. An executive coach, a 360 review, a book on boundaries someone recommended at an offsite. None of it touched the thing that actually wakes you up at 3 a.m. with your heart going, replaying a Slack message you sent four hours ago.
That's because the pattern isn't a skills gap. It's a nervous system that learned a long time ago — often well before your first job — that being indispensable was the safest way to stay valuable, stay liked, stay in control of outcomes you couldn't otherwise control. That nervous system came with you into the role. It shaped the role around itself.
What it tends to look like
You recognize yourself in more of these than you'd say out loud:
You're the one who does the right thing even when leadership doesn't, and you carry the resentment of that quietly.
You give advice you'd never take yourself.
People describe you as "the glue" or "the one who keeps this place together," and it doesn't feel like a compliment anymore.
You're excellent in a crisis and strangely unable to rest once it's over.
A colleague's tone in a meeting can derail your whole afternoon, and you know the reaction is bigger than the moment. You just can't stop it.
Old workplace dynamics, a domineering boss, a colleague who reminds you of someone — can trigger a response that has nothing to do with the actual stakes of the moment.
None of this shows up as dysfunction from the outside. That's the problem. You're too good at this for anyone to notice you're not okay.
The Approach
Why somatic work, specifically
Talking about the pattern intellectually rarely changes it, because the pattern doesn't live in your thinking. It lives in your body's baseline state of alert.
Somatic Experiencing works directly with your nervous system's stress response, rather than asking you to think your way out of a reaction that was never a thinking problem to begin with. The goal isn't fewer insights. You have plenty. The goal is a nervous system that can come down off alert without a crisis forcing it to.
No one has to know
You didn't get where you are by being careless with information, and you're not going to start with your own.
Sessions are confidential the same way any licensed clinical care is. Nothing about your treatment goes to your employer, your board, or anyone else — not your diagnosis, not your attendance, not the fact that you're in the room at all. Virtual sessions mean you're not walking into a waiting room where a client or colleague might see you.
You get to decide who knows. That's the whole point.
How this actually works
Our consult: I explain how somatic work differs from talk therapy you may have tried before and answer any questions you have.
Paperwork: Intake forms sent ahead of your first session, nothing to stress over.
Sessions run 55 minutes, virtual (some limited in-person in Palm Beach). Most executives start weekly and space out as things stabilize.
Somatic work targets the nervous system directly — how stress lives in your body, not just your thoughts about it. Clients typically notice a shift in how they're carrying tension within a few sessions, though the deeper pattern work takes longer.
Scheduling: I see clients during the day Monday through Friday.
Payment: Self-pay; superbill provided for out-of-network reimbursement.
IS THIS YOU?
Who this work is for
Founders, partners, physicians, attorneys, and senior leaders who are good at their jobs and tired in a way that promotions and PTO don't fix.
People who've built a life that looks, from any reasonable outside vantage point, like it's working. And who know privately that something underneath it isn't.
In-person sessions are available in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Virtual sessions are available throughout Florida and Connecticut.
FAQS
Frequently Asked Questions About Therapy for Executives
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Therapy for executives addresses the specific pressures of high-responsibility roles — chronic overfunctioning, difficulty switching off, decision fatigue, and the way stress accumulates in the body when there's no room to fall apart. It's clinical treatment, not coaching, though many executives come in expecting the latter.
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The clinical tools are the same. What's different is the context: executives often present with high-functioning anxiety that doesn't look like textbook anxiety, and they need a clinician who understands the specific demands of leadership — visibility, liability, the expectation of always having it together.
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Somatic Experiencing is a body-based approach to treating stress and trauma. Rather than only talking through what's happening, it works with how stress and hypervigilance are held physically — which matters for executives, because the nervous system often stays activated long after the workday ends.
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Yes. Burnout in high-performers usually isn't just overwork — it's a nervous system that's been in a sustained stress response for so long it can't find its way back to baseline. Treatment focuses on restoring that capacity, not just reducing hours.
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Yes. Virtual sessions are available throughout Florida, with limited in-person availability in Palm Beach Gardens.
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Yes. Virtual sessions are available throughout Connecticut.
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Yes. Treatment is protected the same as any licensed clinical care — nothing is disclosed to an employer, board, or colleague. Virtual sessions also remove the risk of being seen in a waiting room.
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Coaching improves performance and skill. Therapy addresses what's underneath the performance — why rest doesn't feel safe, why anxiety persists regardless of results. If coaching has made you better at your job but hasn't touched how you feel while doing it, that's usually a sign therapy is the better fit.
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It rarely looks like anxiety. It looks like overpreparation, difficulty delegating, irritability that seems disproportionate to the trigger, and exhaustion that doesn't resolve with time off — because the system driving it is still switched on.
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Sessions are self-pay, with a superbill provided for out-of-network reimbursement. Many PPO plans reimburse a portion of out-of-network mental health care. You need to check with your provider.
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Most clients notice a shift in how they're carrying day-to-day tension within the first several sessions. The deeper pattern — the one driving the overfunctioning in the first place — takes longer, and timelines vary by person.
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Sessions are available during the day, Monday through Friday.
The part no one sees coming
You've spent years being the most competent person in the room. You're not looking for someone to tell you you're doing it wrong. You already know the cost. You've known for a while.
What changes in this work isn't your effectiveness. You'll still be the one people hand their crises to. What changes is what it costs you — and whether, for the first time in a long time, there's actually somewhere that cost gets to land.
That's what the consult is for. No commitment required. Just a conversation.
Jennifer Goggin, LPC, LMHC, SEP, is a licensed psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida who works with high-achieving executives, founders, attorneys, and physicians who are performing at the highest level and privately not okay. With over 20 years of clinical experience and the SEP credential since 2007, she specializes in the nervous system patterns that competence tends to hide: chronic hypervigilance, the inability to come down off alert, and the emotional cost of being the person everyone else hands their crises to. Her work is trauma-informed, body-based, and built for people who already have the insight and need something that actually moves the pattern. Jennifer sees clients in person in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and virtually throughout Florida and Connecticut.