Therapy for Women Attorneys

Therapy for
Exhausted
Attorneys

You've Earned Everything on the List.
The List Never Gets Shorter.

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Allison Puryear, LCSW, feminist therapist for women attorneys, wearing a yellow blazer and smiling with arms crossed

Sound familiar?

You're the one who knows which kid needs what for the school thing tomorrow. You're the one who noticed the babysitter needed to be rescheduled and handled it, without mentioning it to anyone. You felt guilty leaving for a girls weekend while your husband takes golf trips without a second thought. You've had the division of labor conversation. More than once. Things shifted for about two weeks. You aren't sure who fell back into old patterns first — you overfunctioning, him letting you handle things.

You're not angry at him exactly. You're angry that you're not angry enough to actually change anything. You're angry you don't ask for what you need.

And you're tired in a way that a vacation doesn't fix.

And then there's what you carry from work.

Your clients bring you their worst moments — their secrets, their fear, their most impossible situations. You hold all of it professionally and without complaint, because that's the job. But there's nowhere to put it. You can't talk about cases. You can't vent to friends who wouldn't understand anyway. So it comes home with you quietly, layered on top of everything else that's already there.

That specific weight has a name. And it's worth talking about.

The real problem

This Is Not a Time Management Problem.

You've already tried optimizing. You've delegated, scheduled, and powered through. And you're still exhausted.

That's because the problem isn't your calendar. It's that the attorney who negotiates without flinching disappears the moment she walks through her front door.

You know this. You've probably known it for a while. You're just not sure what to do with it yet.

That's what therapy is for.

Allison Puryear, LCSW, seated in her therapy office in Asheville NC with exposed brick wall and colorful art

What therapy with me looks like

We Skip Straight
to the Work.

I work specifically with attorneys — women who are accomplished and running on empty.

You won't spend our sessions explaining what the mental load actually means or why the double standard is exhausting. I already know.

And the work isn't just developing insight. You already have plenty of that. You can probably articulate exactly what's wrong and why. What you haven't had is someone who will sit with you in the gap between knowing and actually changing something — and won't let you use your own intelligence as a hiding place.

I'm not going to tell you to practice gratitude or take bubble baths. I love working with smart, interesting women. I'll treat you with the directness that actually moves the needle and give you a room where you don't have to manage how you come across — and I won't pretend the system you're navigating isn't genuinely rigged against you, because it is.

Who I work with

You Might Be
a Good Fit

This work is specific. It's not for everyone. It might be exactly for you.

  • You're an attorney who has built an impressive life and is exhausted by the weight of maintaining it
  • You identify as feminist — meaning you know the double standard exists, and you're tired of living like it doesn't apply to you
  • You've been in therapy before and left feeling like you understood yourself better but not much actually changed
  • You're not looking for someone who will go easy on you
  • You're ready to close the gap between who you are at work and who you allow yourself to be everywhere else

Ready to Talk?

You don't hesitate when your kids need something. You support whatever he wants next. Somewhere along the way, your own wellbeing became the one thing that keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list.

This is you putting yourself on it.

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