Sara Lee · Licensed Psychotherapist

For the human behind the title.

Tired of not feeling present
in your own life?

Emotional infrastructure for executives winning at work but running on empty everywhere else.

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The silent cost of high performance

The cost of performing
in your own life.

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"Life is just spinning too fast. I don't have time to stop and reflect over what I truly want and need."

Senior Leader, before starting the work

What is actually happening

You are not broken.
But you may be living a story
that no longer fits.

A script written by survival, not by who you actually are. Formed early. Rewarded consistently. It got you here.

For decades leadership rewarded performance, certainty and control. And for a long time, that worked. But at some point the cost of that becomes impossible to ignore.

Many leaders who arrive here have already done years of coaching, leadership work, even therapy. They understand themselves intellectually. And still find themselves back in the same place.

Because insight alone does not change the patterns your nervous system learned long ago.

This isn't a performance problem. It's an access problem. Access to yourself. To what you actually feel. To what you actually need. To the life you've already built.

"The moment that changes everything is when a client looks at a pattern they have carried for decades and says: this is not mine. This is my father's world. This is my mother's anxiety. Not me."
Sara Lee

The work

The New C-Suite™
Not self-development.
This is your return.

Three months of private bespoke work. 1:1 sessions combined with in-depth self-discovery modules in a dedicated app, so the transformation continues between sessions, not just during them. I'll meet you as whatever you need — therapist, coach, thinking partner, friend, mirror. The work shapes itself entirely around you.

Phase 01

Beyond Performance

We begin looking clearly at the patterns, pressures, and identities you have been carrying, and where they actually came from. Through assessment and deep reflection, unconscious operating patterns become visible. What has been running automatically starts to loosen.

Phase 02

Returning to Yourself

You begin separating who you are from who you had to become. Old responsibilities, survival strategies, and inherited beliefs start losing their grip. You reconnect with your own emotions, needs, and boundaries. Self-trust returns. The change becomes practical, relational, and real.

Phase 03

Embodied Authority

You begin to lead and live from a place that no longer requires performance or protection. Presence becomes natural. Decisions become clearer. Relationships become more honest. Leadership becomes an extension of who you are, not something you have to manage. Life becomes real.

Duration

3 months

Sessions

8 Private × 60 to 90 min

Support

Assessment · In-app modules · Weekly check-in

Format

Fully remote · Private

Approach

Bespoke · In-depth

Availability

Limited spaces · By application

Investment

€4,500 · Payment plans available

What becomes possible

From performing strength
to leading with calm,
connection and coherence.

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The foundations

Schema therapy, emotionally focused and attachment-based approaches, depth psychology and Lifespan Integration. Trauma-informed and grounded in neuroscience — recognising how the nervous system adapts under chronic pressure and how it can learn to respond differently.

Two decades working at the intersection of psychology, leadership and human transformation. The same truth keeps emerging across every culture, profession and life circumstance: we all share the same core emotional needs. For connection. Safety. Authenticity. Meaning. Belonging.

Sara Lee, Licensed Psychotherapist

The person behind the work

Sara Lee

Licensed Psychotherapist

I was never the executive
in the room.
I was the person they trusted
when the door was closed.

I spent years in People & Culture and leadership development inside global organisations — supporting executives, coaching leaders, designing leadership programmes, and sitting close enough to the system to see what people quietly sacrifice in order to succeed.

Before that, I founded my own executive coaching and leadership training company, working with leaders globally from 2006 to 2010.

I cared too deeply for what the corporate world could contain. So eventually, I left.

And then I burnt out. I lost access to myself completely — still showing up, still performing, still holding everything together for everyone else. Even as a psychotherapist who understood every pattern I was living. It took six weeks of rehabilitation for exhaustion and pain before I could begin to find my way back.

I continued my own work. Moved beyond the self-doubt and survival patterns that had shaped my life for years.

And arrived somewhere quieter. More honest. More fully myself.

I left my practice in Stockholm and moved to the countryside in Spain.

That journey is now part of my work.

I am not teaching what I have read. I am living what I teach.

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What clients say

"Working with Sara helped me navigate a deeply challenging period with greater clarity and self-understanding. Her calm presence, psychological insight, and structured approach created meaningful and lasting change. What distinguishes her is the combination of deep expertise and genuine human care."

Director Product Management · Technology Solutions & Delivery

"This programme has meant a lot to me. I have gained a really good understanding of why I have chosen different paths in the past and I have been able to let go of some of the ways that have not been for my best."

Senior Leader · Fashion & Design Industry

"Before working with Sara, I was stuck in a constant state of stress activation linked to unresolved trauma. Through our work, I was able to process deeper emotional patterns that traditional talk therapy hadn't reached. I now feel calmer, more grounded, and finally like myself again. Sara combines warmth, precision, and deep emotional intelligence. The work was transformative."

Director · Accounting & Legal Services

Self-assessment

Which costume are you
wearing to work and in life?

Not ready to book yet? Start here.

Most high performers have been playing a role for so long it started to feel like a personality. This assessment helps you see which costume you have been wearing — and what it has been costing you.

30 statements 5–7 minutes No right or wrong answers
Discover your pattern →

This is for you if

  • You lie awake knowing something needs to change but you are not sure what
  • You are successful at work and running on empty everywhere else
  • You have done the intellectual work and still find yourself back in the same place
  • The people you love can feel your absence even when you are present
  • You want to live fully, not just perform
  • You want to feel deeply, not just function

This isn't for you if

  • You are looking for performance optimisation or strategy
  • You want quick fixes or tactical frameworks
  • You are not willing to look honestly at what is underneath
  • You are in a place that needs more immediate clinical or crisis support — and if that's you, I'm happy to help you find the right person.

Where to begin

If you recognise
yourself here.

Book a private conversation. No pitch. Just an honest conversation about where you are.

Book a private conversation Message me on WhatsApp Or write to me directly at sara@self-in-sight.com
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