Eileen Tong

Therapist, LMSW

Locations: New York (Virtual)

Insurance: Aetna, Allied Benefit Systems – Aetna, Cigna (Everworth), Wellfleet Student Plan, United Healthcare, Oxford, Oscar, Optum, Self-Pay (Out of Pocket)

Languages: English

Out-of-network rate: $150 per session (sliding scale pricing on a case-by-case basis)

To book a free 15 minute consultation, contact us here.

Eileen is a therapist who specializes in working with professionals navigating career anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, workplace stress, life transitions, financial anxiety, and cultural and family expectations. She has a particular interest in supporting high-achieving professionals from immigrant and minority backgrounds who may appear successful on the outside while feeling anxious, exhausted, or uncertain about what they actually want for themselves.

For many of Eileen's clients, career stress is about more than work. Achievement can become deeply connected to family expectations, cultural identity, financial security, and self-worth. You may feel pressure to keep achieving even when you're running on empty, guilty when you take a break, or conflicted about whether the career you've worked so hard for is actually the life you want. You may find yourself saying yes to opportunities you don't want, struggling to set boundaries at work, or feeling like your success is still not enough to justify your family's sacrifices.

Before becoming a therapist, Eileen spent more than a decade as a minority professional in senior technology roles across top-tier corporate and high-growth startup environments. She understands firsthand the realities of demanding careers, including performance anxiety, complex workplace dynamics, burnout, career uncertainty, and the pressure to maintain success after achievement.

With a background in finance, Eileen also works with financial anxiety and money-related stress. She understands how money can become intertwined with safety, identity, achievement, and family responsibility. This may look like feeling financially responsible for family members, struggling to spend money even when you're financially secure, or worrying that no amount of savings will ever feel like enough.

Eileen's therapeutic style is calm, practical, collaborative, and goal-oriented. She integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to help clients recognize patterns that keep them stuck, clarify their own values, and translate insight into realistic change.

Her goal is to help you build a healthier relationship with achievement, navigate career and life transitions with greater confidence, create clearer boundaries around work and family, and develop a definition of success that feels genuinely your own.