Ambition shouldn’t come at the expense of your well-being.

Sustainable Ambition is a virtual psychotherapy process group for high-achieving women who want to explore their relationship with achievement, perfectionism, pressure, and self-worth—alongside others who understand what it’s like to always be striving for more.

Open to residents of California and New York.

You’re ambitious for a reason. But constantly pushing yourself shouldn’t be the only way you know how to succeed.

Your ambition may have helped you build a life you’re proud of. But when achievement becomes tied to worth, identity, or feeling “enough,” it can be difficult to know where healthy drive ends and pressure begins. Sustainable Ambition is a space to explore that tension with women who understand it.

Sustainable Ambition may be a fit if…

You put enormous pressure on yourself to perform, achieve, or get things “right.”

You struggle to rest without guilt or feel uneasy when you’re not being productive.

Your sense of self-worth can become tied to what you accomplish.

You reach one goal only to move the goalpost again, leaving “enough” always slightly out of reach.

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Hi, I'm Erica.

I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and founder of Elevé Therapy & Co, a psychotherapy practice specializing in high-achieving adults.

Through my work with ambitious, high-performing clients, I’ve seen how achievement can be both deeply meaningful and deeply complicated—especially when success becomes intertwined with identity, self-worth, perfectionism, or the belief that slowing down means falling behind.

I created Sustainable Ambition as a space for women to examine these patterns together—not to become less ambitious, but to build a relationship with achievement that leaves more room for flexibility, connection, and a sense of worth that isn’t dependent on what comes next.

what we'll explore

What’s underneath the drive to achieve?

When achievement became tied to worth, safety, identity, or belonging
The hidden rules that keep you striving, overfunctioning, or feeling like “enough” is always out of reach
What achievement gives you—and what it may cost or protect you from
The discomfort that can emerge around rest, uncertainty, vulnerability, and letting go of control
Who you are beyond what you accomplish
How to pursue ambition from your values rather than fear, pressure, or the need to prove yourself

Sustainable Ambition goes beyond simply managing stress or learning to slow down. Through the group process, we’ll explore the beliefs, needs, and patterns that shape your relationship with ambition—including what achievement gives you, what it costs you, and what it may protect you from.

This isn’t a class. The group itself is part of the work.

Unlike a course or skills-based group, a psychotherapy process group is shaped by the conversations, relationships, and experiences that develop between members.

As the group explores ambition, achievement, perfectionism, and self-worth, there is also space to notice what happens in real time: comparison, vulnerability, the desire to be seen or understood, discomfort taking up space, pressure to perform—even in therapy—and the ways we relate to ourselves and others.

The goal isn’t to teach you how to become less ambitious. It’s to create space to understand what drives your ambition, how it has shaped you, and how you want to relate to it moving forward.