Joe Rustum, PsyD(He/Him/His)

Specialties

Anxiety - Therapy for high-achieving professionals who look capable on the outside but feel overwhelmed, tense, overextended, or stuck in constant overthinking. We focus on reducing worry, improving emotional regulation, building confidence, and helping you respond to stress more effectively.

Career counseling - Support for professionals navigating career stress, leadership challenges, workplace conflict, burnout, major transitions, or uncertainty about next steps. We focus on clarifying goals, improving decision-making, strengthening boundaries, and helping you move toward more meaningful and sustainable work.

Perfectionism - Therapy for people who hold themselves to extremely high standards, struggle with self-criticism, procrastination, overthinking, or difficulty feeling satisfied. We work on reducing pressure, building self-trust, and helping you pursue excellence without constantly feeling driven by fear or inadequacy.

Burnout - Support for professionals who feel depleted, detached, cynical, unmotivated, or unable to recover from ongoing stress. We focus on identifying what is no longer sustainable, rebuilding energy, setting better limits, and creating a healthier way to work and live.

Relationship issues - Therapy for individuals and couples who want to better understand patterns in communication, conflict, trust, intimacy, and emotional connection. We focus on improving clarity, strengthening communication, setting healthier boundaries, and building relationships that feel more stable and satisfying.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) - Therapy for people struggling with intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, reassurance-seeking, checking, rumination, or difficulty tolerating uncertainty. We focus on reducing avoidance, building confidence facing feared thoughts and situations, and helping you regain flexibility and control in daily life.