Private 1:1 counsel for founders, executives, and families navigating success, identity, and the questions that do not yield to strategy. Sustained, confidential, and honest from the first conversation to the last.
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Names do not appear here. They will not. The discretion that allows this work to be useful would be undone the moment a client became a credential.
What I can tell you is the shape of the room.
This is the work. The specifics belong to the people who lived them.
My core training is in psychodynamic and depth-oriented practice, anchored by more than a decade of clinical and consultative work. My principal teacher is Jeffrey Longhofer, PhD, whose scholarship on the social and unconscious dimensions of inner life shapes how I approach every conversation.
I draw additionally on somatic experiencing, family systems theory, and trauma-informed practice. I am committed to ongoing supervision and to the ethics of continued learning.
You will not find quotes from clients on this page. That is intentional. The relationship I offer requires confidentiality so absolute that a name on a website would be a violation of the contract itself. The discretion you read here is the same discretion you will receive.
If you require vetting, I am glad to arrange a private reference upon mutual interest — through trusted intermediaries, on your terms, never on this site.
When one person has the courage to be truly honest, families shift. Organizations shift. Entire lineages shift. That is not a metaphor. That is how the world actually changes.
Most approaches will ask you to perform a better version of yourself. I will ask you something harder: to be honest. About the gap between your values and your choices. About the cost of what you are carrying. About what you have stopped letting yourself feel.
That kind of honesty takes courage. And a relationship where the other person will not flinch. This is that space. The truth is not something to manage here. It is the medicine.
When you can name what you are carrying, it loses its charge. That is the mechanism. Language gives the soul rest. My job is to help you find the words.
People are not simple. The most self-aware person you know is still navigating a map they did not choose to inherit. That is not a flaw. That is the condition.
Every person carries positions they have never fully named. About what is right and what is unforgivable. Where loyalty ends and self-preservation begins. What they owe others and what no one can ask of them. These run below the surface and shape everything.
Some differences can be navigated. Others cannot. One of the most important things a person can learn is to tell the difference. Sometimes the honest outcome is severance — a relationship that ends, a line finally drawn. That is not failure. That is often the most courageous thing a person can do.
Nuance is not weakness. Complexity is not confusion. Sometimes the most honest answer is: I do not know yet. And that is exactly where you and I begin.
Nothing about you happens in isolation. What you carry shapes every decision you make. I work with all of it.
Your identity. Your history. The parts shaped by culture, family, and survival. I work with all of it — not just the parts that are comfortable to bring into a room.
Trauma does not disappear because you have achieved things. Grief does not wait. Burnout is not a scheduling problem. These deserve real attention.
Money changes things. So does the pressure of building it, protecting it, and passing it on. I work with the full psychological and relational weight of financial life.
What your mind has not resolved, your body is still holding. Somatic work is not alternative. It is essential. It is often where the real shift happens.
The experience of navigating between worlds. Of being seen through a lens that was never built for you. This work takes all of that seriously.
Between partners. Between founders. Between family members. Conflict handled well becomes the foundation for something stronger.
Your marriage. Your family. The people you love most and struggle with most. These relationships are not separate from your success. They are the measure of it.
Power has a psychology. So does the loneliness that often lives at the top. I work with the person behind the title, not just the performance of it.
This is not a framework. It is a knowing. A relationship. A mutual investment. What I offer is not a program. It is access to a person who will show up for your life the way you deserve.
Before I do anything, I want to understand the full context of your life. Not just the surface presentation, but everything underneath it.
Every significant decision has a moral dimension. I help you get clear on what you actually stand for so the choices you make reflect the person you intend to be.
Privacy is not a feature I offer. It is the foundation everything else rests on. Nothing leaves this relationship without your explicit consent. Full stop.
When you choose this work, you gain access to everything I have. My network. My collaborators. My resources. This is not a transaction. It is a genuine partnership.
The work I do sits in a category that has been confused with adjacent professions. So a clear line is fair.
This is not psychotherapy. I do not diagnose, treat mental illness, or provide clinical care. If clinical work is what you need, I will tell you, and I will refer.
This is not performance coaching. I am not going to help you optimize your calendar, sharpen a presentation, or raise your team's engagement scores. There are excellent people for that work. I am not one of them.
This is not advisory or consulting. I am not a strategist, attorney, or financial planner. I do not opine on your deals, your hires, or your fund.
Private counsel — sustained, confidential, one-to-one — for the part of your life that does not yield to expertise. The questions about identity, integrity, conflict, and meaning that the people around you cannot answer because of the role you occupy in their lives.
It is a long-form, depth-oriented relationship. It works through honesty, language, and time.
The result is not insight. The result is a life that aligns with what you actually believe.
"The most honest thing I can tell you is that I will always tell you the truth. Not a comfortable version of it. The actual thing."
I am a first-generation Iranian American. My family migrated in the 1970s carrying very little except their values. What they passed down was not wealth. It was a bone-deep understanding of dignity and what it costs to live with integrity. That foundation is inseparable from everything I do.
I entered the field of mental health in 2015. Since then, I have worked across countless settings with people from every walk of life — different backgrounds, socioeconomic positions, every dimension of diversity you can name. What that taught me is something no training alone can: how to sit with the actual complexity of human beings, in whatever circumstance has brought them to the conversation. The need is rarely more strategy. It is someone who will tell them the truth — who will not protect them from the clarity they actually need.
This path was never built on money. It started in principle — in my own growth, my own healing, and a desire to give back what had been given to me. That energy is what shaped the work. Over time, it placed me in rooms with forward thinkers — founders, executives, and builders ushering in a new wave of ideas, innovations, and businesses. From inside those rooms, something became clear: there are people who need a different kind of relationship. Not the formal structure of Western therapy. Something more intimate. With more touch points. With genuine access.
Much of who I became professionally was shaped by my mentor, Jeffrey Longhofer, PhD. He understood that the inner life cannot be separated from the social world a person inhabits. His commitment to honest inquiry left a permanent mark on this work. Who I became as a person was shaped by everyone else along the way — my parents, my brother, my family, and the community around me.
What I offer is a relationship grounded in honesty from the first conversation to the last. I will tell you what I actually see. And I will invest in your growth the way you invest in this work. My network, my collaborators, my resources — all of it becomes available to you. The goal is not insight. The goal is a life that works.
Managing your life well means showing up for every part of it. The work is shaped to what you actually need.
An ongoing relationship that holds the full picture of your life. Someone who knows your history and is available when the moments that matter arrive. Not a weekly appointment. A genuine partnership.
For the leader whose inner life is not keeping pace with outer success. The work is not about performance — it is about the alignment between who you are and how you show up. Not productivity. Integrity.
For couples serious about their relationship. Intensive work moves faster, goes deeper, and shifts the foundation of how two people relate.
For conflicts too important to leave unresolved. Business partnerships. Family disputes. Co-parenting. Estate conversations. Depth and genuine neutrality so something productive can happen.
Families are the original system. The patterns that shape every other relationship were learned here. This work moves carefully, with the whole system in mind.
Not your portfolio. Not your company. You. Your health. The knowing that you gave each day to what actually matters. That is what this protects.
I am here for real accountability. Someone who knows your full picture holds you to the life you said you wanted. Month to month. If this work stops earning your investment, stop. I will be the first to say it.
For the person beginning serious, sustained inner work — and ready for a relationship grounded in honesty over time. A steady rhythm, with structure that protects the work.
For the person whose life requires more than scheduled appointments — where the work moves at the pace of what is actually arising, with room for what cannot wait until next month.
For the leader whose life genuinely requires immediate, ongoing access — and the network and resources behind one. The full weight of a person who knows your context, available when the moments that matter arrive.
Every engagement begins with a discovery phase — a series of complimentary conversations to mutually determine fit. I will answer as many questions as you bring. If this is not the right person for what you are carrying, I will tell you, and where I can, point you toward who is. Mediation work is scoped individually. Sliding scale available in select circumstances.
What you wrote has reached me, and it is held in complete confidence from this moment forward.
I will be in touch within 48 hours — with an equally honest response.
— Shayan
No pitch. No pressure. Tell me honestly where you are and what brought you here. I will be in touch within 48 hours with an equally honest response.
This is for the person beginning serious, sustained inner work — and ready for a relationship grounded in honesty over time. The structure is deliberate. The pace is deliberate. The work matters more than the volume.
Every engagement begins here. Before any commitment, we have a series of conversations — usually one or two — to determine whether this is genuinely the right fit. You bring whatever questions you have. I answer them as honestly as I can.
If I am not the right person for what you are carrying, I will tell you. Where I can, I will point you toward someone who is.
Two 60-minute sessions each month, scheduled Monday through Thursday during business hours. Email and voice memo between sessions when something arises that you want me to know about. I respond within 48 hours.
The rhythm is intentional: enough space between sessions for what we discuss to settle and surface in your life, structured enough to keep the work moving.
This is not for crises. This is not for rapid decisions. This is not where I am available between sessions for things that cannot wait. If your life requires that kind of access, Engaged or Full Access is the right fit.
A steady, confidential relationship with someone who will not flinch and will not perform. Month to month. If this work stops earning your investment, stop.
This is for the person whose life requires more than scheduled appointments — where the work moves at the pace of what is actually arising, with room for what cannot wait until next month.
We begin with a series of complimentary conversations to determine fit. For an engagement at this depth, expect one or two calls before either of us decides to proceed. You bring questions, concerns, the situation you are sitting in. I answer with whatever honesty serves the decision.
Four 60-minute sessions each month with priority scheduling, Monday through Thursday. Text and email between sessions, with a 24-hour response window. One additional 20-minute call each month for the moments where waiting until the next session is not the right move.
Evening sessions are available by prior arrangement when the work calls for it.
This is still bounded. It is not 24/7 access. It is not weekend availability. It is not the right tier when life is genuinely requiring immediate, ongoing presence — that is Full Access.
A relationship that can move with you. Continuity that lets the work compound. The honesty stays constant; the rhythm becomes alive to what is actually happening.
This is for the leader whose life genuinely requires immediate, ongoing access — and who may need the work to involve others. The full weight of a person who knows your context, available when the moments that matter arrive.
Engagements at this level begin with a more rigorous discovery phase — typically two to three conversations. The depth of access requires both of us to be certain. You will have time and space to ask anything. I will answer everything I can.
Eight sessions each month minimum, unlimited within reason as your life requires. Direct phone and text access with response within hours, Monday through Thursday. Full access to my collaborator and referral network — clinicians, attorneys, financial counselors, somatic practitioners — drawn on as your situation requires.
Life's complexities rarely resolve in isolation. This tier includes the ability to bring people who are involved in your life into the work — for consultation, for mediation, for situations that cannot resolve on their own. A spouse. A co-founder. A parent. A board member. A family member.
This happens only on your decision and always with your consent. It is scoped to the specific situation that requires it. Their participation is bounded by the contract you and I have, not by them.
This is one of the genuine unlocks of Full Access: the work does not stay confined to our sessions when life will not allow it to.
Even here, there are limits. No weekend contact. The phrase within reason is real — this is unusually present access by the standards of this work, but it is still a relationship between two people, not a service. Not a panic line. Not a 24-hour line.
The capacity to bring the work into the rooms it is actually needed. Ongoing access. The full scope of my time, my collaborators, and the practice that I have spent more than a decade building.