clinically grounded · evidence-based · direct · short-term
Success opens doors.
But it's a demanding place to live.
Dr. Elle works at the intersection of achievement, identity, self-worth, and high performance — helping high-achieving individuals, couples, and audiences understand the hidden psychological cost of success.
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It is about building a freer relationship with success, so performance can become more sustainable, creative, and humane.
High performers are often rewarded, sometimes spectacularly, for the very patterns that eventually wear them down: over-functioning, self-pressure, emotional containment, relentless responsibility, and the ability to keep going long after most people would stop.
My work helps people understand what achievement has been doing for them psychologically — and what it has started to cost.
This is not about lowering standards, losing ambition, or becoming less excellent.
This is not about lowering standards, losing ambition, or becoming less excellent.
The cost of staying exceptional is often hidden.
The cost of staying exceptional is often hidden.
this work is for
executives & leaders
For people whose decisions, visibility, and responsibility carry real consequences — and whose pressure can feel relentless.
Artists & entertainers
For people whose work, image, relevance, and reception can become difficult to separate from the self.
Couples
For high-achieving couples who run demanding careers and a life together — and want to be partners in it, not just co-managers of it.
Columbia University former staff psychologist and postdoctoral fellow | Spelman College | Former faculty, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa | DePaul University | Licensed in Georgia & New York
I’m a licensed clinical psychologist based in Midtown Atlanta, working with high performers in Georgia and, by telehealth, across New York. I also speak and consult with audiences navigating the hidden psychological cost of achievement.
My work sits at the intersection of achievement, identity, pressure, and self-worth. I help high-performing people understand how success, failure, visibility, responsibility, and the inner critic shape how they lead, create, recover, and relate.
This is work for people who do not need to be told to work harder. They need a freer relationship with the life their excellence has built.
Background & Training:
Inner Compass Institute
Founder:
ABOUT dr. elle
Columbia University former staff psychologist and postdoctoral fellow | Spelman College | Former faculty, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa | DePaul University | Licensed in Georgia & New York
I’m a licensed clinical psychologist based in Midtown Atlanta, working with high performers in Georgia and, by telehealth, across New York. I also speak and consult with audiences navigating the hidden psychological cost of achievement.
My work sits at the intersection of achievement, identity, pressure, and self-worth. I help high-performing people understand how success, failure, visibility, responsibility, and the inner critic shape how they lead, create, recover, and relate.
This is work for people who do not need to be told to work harder.
They need a freer relationship with the life their excellence has built.
Background & Training:
Inner Compass Institute
Founder:
ABOUT dr. elle
A brief, private call to see whether this is the right fit.
Private-pay, discreet, and outside the insurance process.