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5 Work-Life Balance Solutions for Silicon Valley

clients, relationshipsBy Eric FitzMedrud Ph.D.April 15, 2015 Leave a comment

Though the lament of the challenge of work-life balance is heard throughout the United States at this time, I feel that Silicon Valley has a particularly intense case of this affliction. Where start-ups are rampant and two or three year old companies are bought for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, the number of…

Successful, Intelligent, High-performing, . . . and in Therapy

clientsBy Eric FitzMedrud Ph.D.March 10, 2015 Leave a comment

The bay area has concentrated some of the most talented, intelligent, and high-performing people in the world. Often when people call me for therapy they are in that high-performing group. They often hesitate in the initial consult because they believe in many of the myths about high-performing people and about therapy. About high-performing people they…