Finding Support: Therapy for High-Achievers

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re the person everyone leans on.

You’re the one who remembers the birthdays, handles the crisis at work calmly, shows up for everyone else’s hard days and somewhere along the way, you stopped asking who shows up for yours. From the outside, you look like you have it together. On the inside, you’re running on empty, wondering when “managing” became the same thing as “living.”

I started Dr. Solis Therapy & Consulting because I kept meeting people exactly like you — high-achieving, deeply capable, quietly exhausted — and because, for a long time, I was you too.

Who I Am

I’m Dr. Lizette Solis, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and International/Organizational Psychologist. But before any of the credentials, I was a leader burning the candle on both ends — building a career across Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and global mental health initiatives, including community-based work in South Africa and Germany focused on trauma, systemic inequity, and access to care, all while telling myself that rest was something I’d earn “later.”

Later kept moving. I know what it’s like to walk into a boardroom or a community meeting fully composed, then sit in your car afterward wondering how much longer you can keep running on empty. I know the specific exhaustion of leadership the pressure to have the answers, hold the team together, and never let anyone see you falter. That experience is woven into how I practice. It’s not theory to me. That global, systems-level lens shapes how I show up in the therapy room: I don’t just see an individual in front of me, I see the pressures, roles, and history they’re carrying and understand them deeply because I’ve carried them too.

I’m a published author, adjunct faculty at The Chicago School, and I’ve had the privilege of sharing this work through media outlets including NBC, Univision, CBS, and WGN. But the part of this work I care most about happens quietly, one conversation at a time — helping someone exhale for the first time in a long time.

I provide care in both English and Spanish, because healing shouldn’t require leaving your first language at the door.

What I Do

My practice sits at the intersection of two things I believe are deeply connected: individual healing and the systems we live and work inside.

As a therapist, I offer trauma-informed, evidence-based psychotherapy that’s conversational, compassionate, and gently challenging when it needs to be. I’m not interested in handing you generic coping tips. I’m interested in helping you understand why you operate the way you do, and what it might look like to finally put some of that weight down.

As a consultant, I also partner with organizations — businesses, schools, and community groups — to build healthier leadership, culture, and systems. Because I’ve sat on both sides of the table, I understand how workplace dynamics, family systems, and personal history all feed into the anxiety and burnout that bring people to therapy in the first place.

Where I Focus My Work

My therapy practice is built around the adults who carry the most and talk about it the least:

• High-achieving professionals and leaders navigating burnout, high-stress roles, and the exhaustion of constantly performing
• Women moving through life transitions — including fertility and reproductive journeys, pregnancy, early parenting, perimenopause/menopause and the identity shifts that come with all of it
• Adults healing from complex trauma, anxiety, OCD, and ADHD that often hides behind a “put-together” exterior
• Anyone in the middle of a major life or career transition, looking for clarity instead of just more pressure to figure it out alone

If any of that sounds familiar the survival-mode living, the sense that you’ve lost touch with who you were before all the responsibility, you are exactly who I built this practice for.

A Place to Finally Be Supported, Too

Therapy with me isn’t about fixing what’s “wrong” with you. It’s about creating a space where you don’t have to hold it together for once — where we can look honestly at the patterns, the pressure, and the parts of yourself you’ve set aside, and slowly build something more sustainable than survival. I had to learn that lesson myself, and I don’t take it lightly when I get to walk alongside someone else learning it too.

I’m in-network with BCBS, Aetna, and Cigna PPO plans, and I offer both in-person sessions in Chicago and virtual therapy throughout Illinois, so quality care can fit into the life you’re already navigating.

If you’re ready to stop carrying it all alone, I’d be honored to be part of that next chapter.

Schedule a free consultation →

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Dr. Solis Therapy & Consulting, PLLC | 700 N. Green St, Suite 100, Chicago, IL 60642 | 872.222.8860