I am looking for a sport psychologist, ideally someone who has worked with elite or high-performance athletes where periodization, recovery, and psychological management of performance are key. The interview would be for the opening chapter of a book about wellness and burnout written for a university press with a corporate and general audience in mind. The discussion will focus on planned recovery as a performance input rather than a sign of weakness, exploring how athletes normalize rest in ways that corporate culture has not yet adopted.

As Clinical Director of Therapy24x7, I provide insight-oriented psychotherapy to high-achieving professionals in finance, law, and tech--paralleling elite athletes in managing performance under extreme pressure, including executive burnout and work anxiety. In sessions, clients mirror athletes' cycles: a tech executive hit exhaustion when coping habits failed, with tense body signals and emotional flatness signaling unmet recovery needs, as seen in our fertility burnout cases where indoor winters amplified internal depletion. We reframe planned recovery as structural input for the internal world, helping professionals normalize rest via psychodynamic exploration of unconscious achievement patterns--contrasting corporate views that dismiss it amid relational compulsions. For your book chapter, I'd share how this fosters resilience, like guiding a lawyer through repetition compulsions to integrate rest, boosting sustained performance without corporate stigma.