Bioethicist Clinical Psychologist Advocate for High Achievers
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Get Your Purpose Back.
Therapy & consulting to help you break free from burnout without losing your ambition or your privacy.
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Others see success, but it feels like you’re drowning.
You’re:
Leading the board meeting
Reviewing cases between patient rounds
Plowing through emails during your kid’s soccer practice
Responding to crisis calls at 2 AM
From the outside, you’re killing it.
But maybe what used to fire you up now just… doesn’t.
Bureaucracy blocks the work that once mattered.
You’ve become a high-functioning ghost—showing up, but not quite alive.
There’s a knot in your chest that never quite goes away.
Let’s call it what it is:
A broken system.
The very systems that were supposed to support meaningful work often take everything—including the meaning that made it worth it.
You’ve invested too much to walk away. But staying? Feels unsustainable.
What if there’s another way?
What if you could reclaim your freedom, without losing your ambition?
Build a life that’s as fulfilling as it is successful.
Dr. Jenny Shields helps high-achieving professionals break free from burnout and build lives that honor both ambition and integrity.
For over a decade, she’s worked at the intersection of psychology, ethics, and systems leadership—with Fortune 500 teams, executives, physicians, attorneys, and other driven leaders navigating burnout, moral injury, and impossible choices.
A Practice Built for You
After years in institutional leadership, she built a private practice for the people the system overlooks: high performers who need real help, but can’t afford professional exposure.
This practice was built for those who refuse to trade their mental health for a line item on someone else’s spreadsheet.
You’ve spent a lifetime caring for others with rigor and respect.
Now it’s your turn.
Meet Dr. Jenny Shields
“Your burnout isn’t a personal failing. It’s the logical endpoint of a myth you were sold.”
Dr. Jenny Shields helps high-achieving professionals see their burnout for what it really is. Not personal failure, but a rational response to an irrational system.
As one of only three credentialed psychologist-bioethicists in the United States, Dr. Jenny Shields helps high-stakes professionals rebuild from the inside out—without trading ambition for peace of mind.
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How Dr. Jenny Shields Can Help
Dr. Jenny helps individuals and organizations break free from toxic narratives and rebuild lives and cultures that protect both performance and humanity.
Individual Therapy
Confidential support for professionals who’ve outperformed their nervous system
Off-the-record therapy for physicians, attorneys, executives, and leaders who need real help without career consequences.
Psychological Assessments
Get clarity, not just another checklist.
Comprehensive evaluations for ADHD, anxiety, trauma, and workplace accommodations—with options for complete privacy or rock-solid documentation.
Professional Consulting
Navigate impossible workplace
situations with confidence.
Real-time ethics support for professionals whose work has become ethically complex or personally unsustainable.
Speaking & Training
Challenge the myths that drive burnout.
Keynotes and workshops that expose the hidden costs of “hustle culture” and build organizations that protect both well-being and performance.
So many high-functioning professionals don’t feel like they have permission to fall apart or even slow down.
Dr. Shields creates a space where they can finally exhale. Her work is scientifically grounded, ethically sound, and still deeply human.