Loralee Schultz (she/ her) Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) Therapy for High-Achieving Adults Who Are Exhausted by Their Own Competence
You are great at what you do. But for many executives and professionals in British Columbia, there is a quiet, heavy cost to always being the "capable" one. If your success feels like failure from the inside—or if you are exhausted from performing for a world that wasn't built for you—you aren't falling apart; you are simply reaching the limit of your current survival strategies.
I work virtually with high-achievers navigating burnout, perfectionism, high-functioning anxiety, and the particular disorientation of late-diagnosed ADHD or complex trauma.
Beyond Executive Coaching While coaching addresses performance and strategy, therapy addresses the internal architecture underneath it. Using the Identity Archaeology framework, we map the nervous system patterns and identity structures that shape how you lead, relate, and make decisions. This integrative approach,drawing on EMDR, IFS-informed work, and somatic awareness—reaches the layers that strategy and skill-building were never designed to touch.
A Different Kind of Conversation Sessions are structured, confidential, and conducted via secure video across British Colombia,Ontario,Alberta and all other provinces and teritories. There are no worksheets or "homework" modules. This is a dedicated space where you don’t have to arrive with your thoughts organized or "present well." We work at a pace that is slower than you expect, but significantly more substantial than you anticipate.
FROM THE INSIDE, NOT THE TEXTBOOK
What brings most people to this page is not a crisis. It is the quiet arithmetic of a life that looks right from the outside and costs more than it should to maintain. Most are senior leaders, founders, or professionals who are the person other people rely on, and who have no equivalent for themselves.
Loralee Schultz MACP, RP (Qualifying), is a virtual psychotherapist offering relational therapy for executives, senior leaders, and high-achieving professionals across British Columbia, Ontario, and beyond. She specializes in burnout, high-functioning anxiety, perfectionism, and late-diagnosed ADHD, drawing on an EMDR structured approach, IFS-informed work, and somatic awareness, practicing under clinical supervision.
High-achieving people are good at calibrating to external instruments. What tends to go uncalibrated for years are the internal ones: what actually feels meaningful, what the overwork is protecting against, whether you are moving toward something or away from something else entirely. The scaffolding you built to get here is real. So is the question of what it is actually holding up.
There is also something specific about this kind of work that most people in your position don't say out loud: there is nobody in your professional life you can have this conversation with. Not your leadership team. Not your peers. Possibly not the people closest to you either. That isolation is part of what makes the gap between how you appear and how you feel so expensive to maintain.
I know this from more than books. I've navigated ADHD, complex trauma, and the specific experience of holding things together professionally while something underneath quietly asked for a different kind of attention. The particular work of performing capable in rooms where vulnerability would cost you something is one I understand from the inside, not as an observer. I tell you this not to put my story ahead of yours, but because when you describe that gap, I know exactly what I'm listening to.
The way I work is relational first. Not because it sounds good, but because the research is unambiguous: the therapeutic relationship is the mechanism. I draw on an EMDR structured approach, IFS-informed work, emotion-focused therapy, and somatic awareness, applied after we have built enough trust that the nervous system is willing to engage.
Not everything underneath the performance is a problem. Some of it is load-bearing. The work is in telling the difference.
Most people who reach out say they wish they had done it sooner. The gap between how you appear and how you feel tends to get more expensive over time, not less. Sessions are confidential, conducted virtually, and structured as conversations. Not assessments, not intake processes. If something in this landed, reaching out is the next smallest step. We'll spend the first session figuring out what you're carrying and whether this is the right fit. There is no obligation beyond that.
Loralee Schultz, MACP, RP (Qualifying). Virtual therapy for executives and high-achieving adults across British Columbia, Ontario, and beyond, working within a supervised practice model. Registration publicly verifiable on the CRPO register.
Credentials:
- Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP)
- Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)
- EMDR trained (structured approach), EMDR Canada member (2026)
- IFS-informed
- Person-centred EFT
- Somatic awareness integration
- 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming care