You have to manage every room you walk into. This is the space where you don’t have to.
Confidential, clinically grounded coaching for executives who need a space to speak freely. Based in Washington, DC. Working with leaders everywhere.
Apply to work together01 / The problem
Your whole life, you’ve handled pressure. Most of the time you’ve thrived on it.
Then something shifted — a new role, an acquisition, a mandate that raised the stakes — and for the first time, the old way of managing it stopped working. Maybe it’s your sleep. Maybe it’s a shorter fuse at home. Maybe it was a panic attack you haven’t told anyone about.
Whatever is it, it doesn’t mean you’re failing. It means your scope is starting to outpace your support.
02 / What this work is — and isn’t
This is not motivational coaching. It’s not a productivity system. It’s not a leadership framework layered on top of the same old patterns.
This is rigorous, relational, psychologically grounded work for leaders who are already capable — and want to lead with more clarity, steadiness, and wisdom when the pressure is highest. We work on the internal machinery that runs external leadership: the way you carry pressure, how you navigate conflict, what happens in your body before a board meeting.
What got you here has a ceiling. We work on what’s above it.
03 / Why a therapist-first coach
Most executive coaches are business-first — former operators who picked up some psychology along the way. I’m the inverse. I’m a therapist first, with almost two decades of clinical work at the deepest end of human pressure: the special operations community, first responders, and leaders serving in four presidential administrations.
Which means the most stressful boardroom in your world is not the most stressful room I’ve sat in.
And I understand business. I still run the professional services firm I founded and built past seven figures. I can hold your panic attack and your P&L in the same conversation — because they're usually related.
04 / From a client
“I am confident that I have become a better CEO for having worked with Eric.”
“After regular coaching sessions with him, I’ve been able to show up not only with them as less reactive and more engaged, but also with my senior team as a better version of myself, caring about their professional and personal lives but with less unhealthy dependence on their reactions to tough business calls.”
— 4× private equity-backed company President / CEO
05 / The engagement, at a glance
Sometimes you’re the buyer; sometimes your company is. Both work.
06 / Who this is for
This is for you if
You’re a senior leader in — or just past — a transition that raised the stakes. You’re already capable, and you’re ready to work beneath the surface: on how you carry pressure, not just what you do with it.
It isn’t if
You’re looking for tactical coaching from someone who has built the kind of company you’re building. If you’ve just closed your first round and need an advisor to tell you what to do next operationally — that’s real and valuable work, but I’m probably not your person.
07 / A short note from me
Between my clinical caseload and my role as CEO of The McClerren Group, I can only work with a limited number of leaders at any given time and still be able to give each engagement the depth it deserves. If what you've read here sounds like we might be a fit, the next step is a short application.
I read every one myself.
— Eric
Speak freely. Think clearly.
The application takes about ten minutes.
Apply to work together