Live a life you love
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Uncover a more sustainable approach to your work and life.
Living with anxiety, depression, confusion, and burnout is difficult. Feeling constantly stressed, overwhelmed, sad, or stuck is draining and impacts relationships, work performance, and home life. Everything builds and no one seems to understand, I get it.
Therapy allows you to unpack life’s challenges in a safe space with proven techniques that bring on real change, healing, and growth. I have a client-focused perspective working with adult women to foster healing conversations and clinical recommendations. My approach and belief is that therapy should bring you towards living a life you love.
My Expertise
The relentless pursuit of perfection and the constant need to prove oneself can lead to physical and emotional exhaustion. High-achieving women often prioritize work and other commitments over self-care, neglecting their own needs and well-being.
The fear of failure, the pressure to meet high expectations, and the constant need to outperform others can contribute to heightened anxiety and stress levels. This is exacerbated by the societal pressure on women to be both successful and nurturing.
The constant striving for perfection can lead to feelings of inadequacy when goals are not met. Additionally, the pressure to balance career, relationships, and personal life can create a sense of isolation and loneliness, contributing to depressive symptoms.
Hi, I'm Dr. Leah Weiss!
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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