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Business NameBob Manthy, LPC
Primary CategoryMental Health Practitioner
Secondary CategoryCounselor
LocationBoulder, Colorado (telehealth, no physical office listed)
Websitebobmanthy.com
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Executive counseling for C-suite leaders, founders, engineers, and high achievers. Bob Manthy is a Licensed Professional Counselor and former Google software engineer with an M.S. in Computer Science and an MBA. He's also a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine operator and ultramarathon runner who understands what it takes to perform at the highest levels, and what happens when that's not enough. Telehealth counseling available for clients located in states where Bob Manthy is legally authorized to practice. Free initial consultation available at bobmanthy.com.
GBP Posts, 5 Weeks (one per week)
Post 1: The Capable Person's Trap
Publish: Tuesday There's a pattern I see in almost every executive I work with.
You've built a career on figuring things out. When problems appear, you solve them. That capability is real, it's earned, and it's made you successful. But somewhere along the way, it stopped being a skill and became an identity.
So when the hard thing isn't a project problem or a strategy problem, when it's an internal one, a relationship slowly going quiet, a creeping flatness about work you used to love, a sense that the next promotion won't fix whatever's wrong, the same move doesn't work. You try to analyze your way through it. You stay busy so you don't have to look too closely.
The capability that built your career becomes the thing keeping you from addressing the most important problems you have.
That's the trap. And recognizing it is usually the first thing that changes.
If this lands for you, I'm a Boulder-based LPC and former Google engineer who works specifically with high-achieving professionals navigating exactly this. Free consultation at bobmanthy.com/schedule.
Post 2: Achievement Identity
Publish: Wednesday Here's a question I ask a lot in early sessions: if you couldn't work for a year, who would you be?
Most high achievers pause for a long time before answering. Some laugh uncomfortably. Some realize they don't have a clean answer. That discomfort is worth paying attention to.
When your identity is built almost entirely around what you produce, your title, your output, your role, you're in a structurally fragile position. Not because ambition is a problem. It isn't. But because life has a way of interrupting: a health event, a company imploding, a career plateau, a relationship falling apart. And when the thing that's been defining you gets disrupted, the question of who you are without it becomes urgent in ways you weren't prepared for.
The work I do with executives and founders isn't about dismantling ambition. It's about building a self that's durable enough to carry it, so you can keep performing without it costing you everything else.
If you're curious what that kind of work looks like, I offer free initial consultations. bobmanthy.com/schedule
Post 3: The Leadership Silence
Publish: Tuesday The higher you go, the fewer people will tell you what's actually going on.
That's not cynicism. It's organizational physics. People filter up. They tell you what they think you need to hear, what they think you want to hear, or what keeps them safe. Over time, most leaders end up with a version of reality that's been quietly curated by everyone around them.
What's harder to see is the internal version of the same thing. The silences you've developed toward your own warning signals. The way high performers learn to route around discomfort rather than sit with it long enough to understand it.
I work with executives and leaders on both of these: the interpersonal dynamics that come with authority, and the internal ones that high-functioning people are often remarkably good at avoiding.
Sometimes the most useful thing I can offer isn't a framework. It's just a space where the filters come off.
Free consultation: bobmanthy.com/schedule
Post 4: The Capable Couple
Publish: Thursday Two high-achieving people in a relationship face a specific kind of difficulty that doesn't get talked about much.
You're both capable. You're both used to solving problems efficiently. You've both built careers on handling hard things with composure. Which means when something goes wrong between you, you each bring those same patterns into the room, and they don't always help.
You negotiate when you should be vulnerable. You optimize when you should slow down. You stay in your head when the other person needs you in the room. The skills that make you exceptional at work become liabilities in the moments that require something different.
Couples work with both partners being high achievers is its own discipline. It's not just couples therapy with a fancier vocabulary. It's understanding what that specific dynamic produces and what it actually takes to move through it.
I work with couples in this space, in addition to individual work with executives and founders. If you're curious whether this fits what you're navigating, I offer a free initial consultation.
bobmanthy.com/schedule
Post 5: The Endurance Mentality
Publish: Wednesday I've run ultramarathons. I know what it feels like to keep moving when everything in you is telling you to stop.
That capacity, to push through, to override discomfort, to keep functioning no matter what, is genuinely valuable. In racing, in military service, in high-stakes careers, it's what lets you do things other people won't. I'm not going to tell you it's a problem.
But I will tell you what I've seen in the executives and leaders I work with: that same endurance mentality, applied to the rest of life, can become a way of deferring things that matter. Relationships. Health signals. Internal warning systems that have been patiently waiting for your attention for years.
You can't run through everything. And sometimes the most sophisticated move isn't pushing harder. It's knowing when to stop and actually look at what's there.
I'm a Boulder-based LPC and former Google engineer who works with executives and high achievers navigating exactly this. Free initial consultation at bobmanthy.com/schedule.
Q&A, 5 Pairs for GBP Q&A Section
Q: Do you offer telehealth sessions?
Yes. Telehealth counseling is available for clients located in states where Bob Manthy is legally authorized to practice. Sessions are conducted by secure video. Visit bobmanthy.com to check availability and schedule a free initial consultation.
Q: What kind of clients do you typically work with?
Bob works primarily with C-suite executives, founders, engineers, and high-achieving professionals who are navigating the internal dimensions of high performance: identity, leadership stress, relationship strain, burnout, and major life transitions. Many of his clients are accomplished people who've never been in counseling before. They come because something in their personal or professional life isn't responding to the usual approaches.
Q: What's your background? How does it apply to working with executives?
Bob Manthy is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a background that's unusual in the mental health field. He's a former Google software engineer with an M.S. in Computer Science and an MBA, a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine operator, and an ultramarathon runner. He's not just familiar with high-performance environments, he's worked inside them at a serious level. That matters when you're working with clients who need to feel understood before they'll engage.
Q: Do you work with couples?
Yes. Bob works with couples, particularly those where both partners are high-achieving professionals. The dynamics that emerge in high-achieving couples are distinct, patterns around competition, emotional availability, and problem-solving that go well beyond generic relationship challenges. Individual sessions are also available.
Q: How do I get started?
The first step is a free initial consultation at bobmanthy.com/schedule. That conversation is straightforward, no pressure, no commitment. Bob is looking to understand what you're navigating, and you're looking to see whether this feels like the right fit. Most people find it more useful than they expected.