EIRENE GROUP
Critical Stress Management Coaching
Data shows that 26% of C-suite executives experience burnout, chronic stress, and depression, compared to 18% of the general workforce. A 2024 Harvard Business Review study found that nearly 50% of CEOs experience loneliness and isolation, and 61% believe it affects their performance. Burnout, stress, and depression rates are even higher among doctors, lawyers, and business owners.
But statistics don’t capture your lived experience or your immediate needs.
You may be working harder than ever yet producing less. You may find it difficult to think clearly, plan strategically, or access the confidence and judgment that once came naturally. You may oscillate between a sense of dread and a deep desire for your team to thrive, wondering whether anything you do will ever feel like enough. You may feel the urge to withdraw, avoid decisions, or hide, not because you lack competence, but because your system is under sustained strain.
When pressure becomes prolonged or compounded by events such as divorce, loss, injury, grief, or high-stakes responsibility, the body and brain can shift into protective modes that limit our once–taken–for–granted capacity. This can show up as decision paralysis, emotional detachment, overcontrol, or deferring expertise, even when you are the expert. Work disengagement in these moments is often not a choice, but a biological response to critical stress.
You may already be in therapy, and that work is essential. Our role is different and complementary.
Our critical stress management coaching focuses specifically on work capacity. We work with you in your work context to help your nervous system move toward calm and to reframe how you manage daily and critical work demands, so you can function effectively without adversely impacting your company’s stability and growth.
Using a neuroscience-informed coaching approach, developed by Dr. Shalini Jebasingh, we use our proprietary ©SCRIBE framework to help leaders strengthen emotional regulation, internal drive, and work capacity. We offer only virtual coaching for easy accessibility. Each coaching session is approached with confidentiality, respect, and practical focus, so you can function well today and steadily return to thriving tomorrow.
In a Nutshell
If you are facing critical stress that is affecting your work capacity, we are here to help you manage your work and regain your work capacity. We understand both the emotional toll and the non-negotiable demands of leadership and management, and we approach our coaching with deep respect for our clients’ well-being and responsibilities.
We offer confidential vitual coaching, using our proprietary ©SCRIBE Model to help you navigate your work while you are coping with critical stress or trauma. Using our model, we will help you to understand your experience, effectively manage daily and critical work issues, and regain work capacity.
Our goal is this: (1) help you so that your work is not disproportionately affected, and (2) you continue to lead and grow your company in its vision and purpose till you regain work capacity.
What to Expect When You Reach Out
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You begin with a confidential 90-minute conversational leadership and executive work capacity audit, not a commitment and not a diagnosis.
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I will listen, clarify as needed, and understand through a systematic process what is affecting your capacity and decision-making.
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Together, we explore whether coaching is the right support for your situation.
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If we proceed, coaching moves at your pace, focused on restoring clarity, steadiness, and work capacity.
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All conversations are private, respectful, and mindful of your leadership responsibilities.
What to expect in a Coaching session?
Working through critical stress in truth will strengthen your leadership effectiveness, ensure healthy team building, and support organizational growth. We offer you a safe space to be yourself as we work on reframing to regain your work capacity.
We understand the emotional toil and the non-negotiable work demands of leadership, client services, and business management. We recognize the ripple effect of your decisions inside and outside your company, and the weight you carry in decision-making. We care about your company. We care about you. We will work with you, fully committed to your success and your company’s growth.
Each session is for 60 minutes. In the first session, we will work to understand your experiences and the challenges you are facing with them. If needed, we will suggest somatic practices you can easily begin using to manage stress responses.
In the following sessions, we will work with you using our proprietary © SCRIBE Model, created by Dr. Shalini Jebasingh. We use this model to work through different organizational frames to help mitigate hypervigilance, overwhelm, or shutdown responses. We share tools for mind-body integration that promote healing and, if needed, help you build a short-term support team by identifying people you trust. Click to learn more about our proprietary SCRIBE Model.
Coaching Fees
All coaching engagements begin with a confidential initial consultation.
Conversational Leadership and Executive Work Capacity Audit (90 minutes): $750
This session provides space to understand your situation, through a systematic process, audit work function and work-related challenges, and assess whether coaching is the right support for your needs.
Ongoing Coaching Sessions (60 minutes): $500 per session
Coaching sessions focus on restoring work capacity, strengthening clarity and emotional regulation, and supporting effective leadership under pressure.
Urgent Coaching Session (60 minutes): $750
Available for time-sensitive situations requiring immediate support. Urgent sessions are scheduled within 24–48 hours, subject to availability, and are designed to help manage critical work-related stress and decision-making.
Is It Stress, Burnout, or Trauma?
A dangerous word in C-suite circles and among healthcare providers, lawyers, and business owners is trauma. For many, it stands next to failure. But trauma is not failure. In fact, leaders who acknowledge, process, and grow from their trauma are uniquely skilled at leading their companies and teams at a steadier and higher level.
Emotionally painful experiences run on a continuum. If irritation and annoyance are on the far left of this scale, on the far right are traumatic events, critical illness, long-term traumatic relationships in childhood or adulthood, loss of someone we love, etc. Where we fall on this scale depends, among other things, on the intensity of the experience and our biological capacity to handle it.
When you read the chart below, the more severe the changes you experience, the more likely it is that you are coping with an injured nervous system or trauma.
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Before, you easily processed information, made decisions, and executed implementation.
Now, you experience decision paralysis, oscillating between an inability to make decisions and micromanaging minor processes to regain a sense of control.
You might continue to perform, but with emotional detachment, perhaps to stay in control.
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Before, you were self-confident in decision-making and strategy execution.
Now, you defer to and appease others you perceive as experts rather than yourself, and you try to avoid conflict or confrontation.
You might find yourself leaning towards perfectionism and overwork, maybe to gain some sense of control when you feel unable to trust your own decisions.
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Before, you were calm, confident, and relaxed at work amidst daily pressures.
Now, you feel threatened or in danger and react disproportionately to work challenges.
You may get irritable and angry, emotionally volatile, maybe at a perceived sense of unfairness or injustice towards you.
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Before, you were adept at vision casting and in getting your teams to work with drive and purpose.
Now, you avoid meetings as conversations leave you tired, drained, or overwhelmed.
You may be avoiding people, actively disengaging, and trying to isolate yourself, perhaps to overcome feelings of dread.
Three additional, often overlooked signs include:
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Difficulty thinking or planning, often due to prefrontal cortex shutdown under sustained stress
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Constant alertness to real or perceived threats, frequently leading to insomnia or disrupted sleep
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Chronic migraines, persistent fatigue despite rest, and digestive issue
Trauma, Leadership, and Restoring Capacity
If you are carrying trauma in your body, whether from childhood experiences, intimate partner experiences, or long-term work pressures, you are not alone. You are not less-than.
Leaders who have worked through trauma are often among the most effective and respected leaders. They lead with greater empathy and openness, leaving a lasting leadership legacy.
If you are looking for a coach to help you reframe work priorities, execute urgent needs, ease cognitive overload while maintaining operations, and continue moving toward annual goals, we are here to support you.
We are deeply committed to your psychological and emotional safety. We will work alongside you to help you manage and navigate work demands with care and stability—while you pursue nervous system healing, restored capacity, and long-term well-being.
Ten Ways Working Through Trauma Strengthens Leadership Capacity
Leaders who process trauma and go through the demanding path of integration often develop uncommon strengths that shape both their leadership presence and organizational culture:
1. Strategic Awareness Over Hypervigilance
Heightened alertness is transformed into clear strategic awareness, enabling you to identify organizational risks early, recognize patterns more quickly, and spot opportunities for growth.
2. Embodied Empathy
Empathy becomes a lived leadership quality, enabling you to lead with compassion and respond thoughtfully to the life and work challenges of others.
3. Earned Resilience
You develop a grounded confidence that your identity is not tied to outcomes, allowing you to lead with calm presence, steady judgment, and wise risk-taking in times of uncertainty or crisis.
4. Integrated Intelligence
Reflecting on your life's history to connect the dots by bringing together dissociated parts (emotions, body sensations, memories) fractured by trauma, strengthens emotional, contextual, and situational intelligence, aligning mind and body to assess people and environments truthfully and with care.
5. Commitment to Justice and Fairness
A natural orientation toward equity emerges, guiding you to protect vulnerable team members and ensure fairness in decisions, systems, and priorities.
6. Authentic Leadership
Pretenses, power games, and manipulation fall away. Leadership becomes direct, honest, and trustworthy, rooted in integrity rather than performance.
7. Purpose-Driven Decision-Making
A clarified sense of purpose enables you to guide teams toward values-aligned decisions while maintaining focus on mission, goals, and long-term direction.
8. Psychological Safety at Work
You nurture environments where people feel safe to speak openly, present difficult data, ask questions, and learn from mistakes without fear.
9. Freedom Over Coercion
Leadership is exercised without control or intimidation, cultivating cultures of belonging, responsibility, and intrinsic motivation.
10. Human-Centered Culture
You help create workplaces where employees are seen, heard, and supported as whole human beings—strengthening trust, engagement, and collective performance.