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Therapy & Coaching for High-Achieving Women in Portland & the Bay Area
UNCOVER A MORE SUSTAINABLE APPROACH TO YOUR WORK AND LIFE.
Feeling stuck, anxious, or burned out at work or home? You’re not alone. Therapy and coaching for high-achieving women can help you reclaim clarity, confidence, and calm.
I specialize in midlife transitions, stress, and career realignment, offering values-based support for women in Portland and the Bay Area.I understand how everything builds up—and how hard it can be when no one seems to get it. That’s why I offer a space to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with what really matters.
My Expertise
High-achieving women often push through stress and burnout without support. Therapy and coaching can help you interrupt that cycle, restore your energy, and create space for well-being. I specialize in helping professionals in Portland and the Bay Area build sustainable success.
Anxiety and overwhelm are common in midlife, especially when you’re navigating career, caregiving, and identity shifts. Together, we’ll develop tools to help you manage anxiety and feel more grounded in your purpose.
When you feel stuck, depressed, or like you’ve lost your spark, it’s hard to know what’s next. My approach supports women in reclaiming their voice, healing from burnout, and reigniting their sense of direction in life and work.
Hi, I'm Dr. Leah Weiss!
I specialize in therapy and coaching for high-achieving women in Portland, the Bay Area, and beyond. I help professionals reconnect with meaning in their lives and careers, heal from burnout, and navigate major life transitions with clarity and courage.
I'm passionate about helping people find purpose in their work and everyday lives. I have taught at Stanford Business School and am founding faculty for Stanford's Compassion Cultivation Program, conceived by the Dalai Lama. I also co-founded Skylyte, a venture-backed startup focused on team health and well-being.
As a clinician, I work closely with my clients to help them align with their values and purpose. Whether working with CEOs, college presidents, or other C-suite executives, I assist leaders in navigating their responsibilities and creating cultures that are more human, both for themselves and their teams.
From my experiences at Stanford and Skylyte, and also from supporting leaders for 20 years, I understand what it’s like for leaders to manage significant responsibilities that impact both their personal well-being and their organizations. It is a lot to hold the expectations and responsibilities of a team. I help people navigate these responsibilities, break through cycles of burnout, and foster resilience in themselves and their teams. My goal is to support leaders in holding leadership without the burden of leadership.
I've worked with over a hundred organizations internationally, helping leaders craft more purposeful and compassionate cultures, and guiding leadership teams and executives in their day-to-day work and life. I have also trained hundreds of physicians, therapists, and coaches in the areas of burnout, purpose, and compassion. Having faced burnout myself, I know its challenges firsthand. I've had to align my work with the kind of life I want to live, not just my professional goals. I’ve learned what it takes to create a life that reflects my true intentions and values. For me, this journey is about understanding what it truly means to "have it all"—in a way that feels authentic and fulfilling for each of us.
My book, *How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind*, has been a labor of love, reaching readers in 10 languages and featured by outlets like BBC, The New York Times, and Harvard Business Review.
Outside of work, you might find me carpooling my three kids around Portland, playing fetch with my golden retriever, knitting, trying new local restaurants, figuring out how to garden, or exploring new ways to create meaning and find humor in everyday life.
- Leah Weiss, PhD, MSW
Teaches Compassionate Leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she created the perennially waitlisted course “Leading with Mindfulness and Compassion.”
A principal teacher and a founding faculty member of Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Program
Co-founded Skylyte in 2019, a company that specializes in using the latest neuroscience and behavior change to empower high-performing leaders and managers to prevent burnout for themselves and their teams.
The Little Book of Bhavana: The Thai secrets of everyday resilience (Quercus)
How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind (HarperWave)
Leah has taught and spoken in over 75 organizations across sectors, including Genentech, Goldman Sachs, NASA, the European Commission, FEMA, Google, Kaiser Permanente, BP, and Intuit.
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