Doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, business owners, corporate managers and other professionals face a unique set of difficulties in their work. In those roles, you face tremendous pressure to deliver services or products, perform nearly flawlessly under tight deadlines, manage business crises, face high levels of risk to yourself, your customers or your company, and make decisions that affect many other people.

• Difficulty balancing personal life and work responsibilities.
• Difficulty satisfying relationship or family needs and responsibilities.
• Feeling alienated or isolated from friends and loved ones.
• Feeling fearful that you can’t live up to everyone’s expectations of you.
• Feeling like you’ve lost your sense of purpose, or lost a sense of fulfillment in your work.

These are all common difficulties faced by professionals, and while you may deeply enjoy the challenges and responsibilities in your work, you may feel distress from these issues as well.