Individuals who work in leadership positions face particular challenges.
Some of the concerns executives, entrepreneurs, consultants and others in leadership positions express, in addition to the painful difficulty of marital/relational conflict, include the following:
- Burn out or coping with an unending work day
- Coping with time-pressures and productivity-expectations
- Career decisions and transitions
- Loss of motivation, dynamism, creativity
- Coping with not receiving a promotion, raise or partnership
- Working with difficult employees, clients or associates
- Coping with surgeries, diagnoses, menopause and other health issues
- Mourning, loss and bereavement
- Coping with family related issues during work hours
- Loneliness and isolation
- Frustrating politics in the workplace
- Racism, sexism and injustice in the workplace
- Conflict with management, partners or competition
- Understanding anger/rage reactions or anxiety
- Travel-based stress, exhaustion
- Sex and attraction in the workplace
- Substance use and sex addiction for stress relief and personal validation
- Experiencing Intimacy and authentic expression daily
- Issues with confidence