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You are outwardly
successful.
And privately
exhausted.

High-achieving professionals come here when they are performing at the highest level — and quietly burning out behind it. This work is evidence-based, honest, and built for people who expect more than platitudes.

1:1 Coaching Group programs Psychotherapy — Fall 2026
Shien Victoria Zutshi
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Anxious & Ambitious
A 90-day confidence reframe for the high achiever — transform high-functioning anxiety into calm, confident momentum
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Where to start

Choose your path

Four ways in. All grounded in the same framework.

1:1 Coaching

For burnout, transition, and identity

Personal, evidence-based sessions for high-achievers navigating the gap between external success and internal wellbeing. Direct, honest, and built around you.

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Group Coaching

The Reset Room

An 8-week live group coaching programme for high-achieving women. Evidence-based tools you use between sessions. Two cohorts — choose what fits your life.

⏱ Wednesdays 6pm ⏱ Sundays 9am
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The Book

Anxious & Ambitious

A 90-day confidence reframe for the high achiever. Rewire anxious thought loops, regulate your nervous system, and build repeatable confidence — without sacrificing your ambition.

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Fall 2026
Psychotherapy & Group Counselling

Clinical depth. Coming this fall.

Individual psychotherapy and a small regulated group for women navigating chronic stress, identity, and the private cost of high performance. Limited availability.

👥 Max 6 per group cohort 📅 Accepting interest now
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What people are saying

Real shifts. Real people.

“I’d been going back and forth on a job change for months. We broke down how I make decisions, where I get stuck, why I stall. I made the decision within three weeks. For once, I didn’t second-guess myself into the ground.”

Professional services, Toronto

“My burnout wasn’t dramatic. I was just tired all the time and had stopped enjoying basically everything. I plan differently now. I don’t hit that same wall anymore.”

Senior leader, financial sector

“The book put words to something I’d been carrying for years — that specific combination of ambition and anxiety that doesn’t make sense to most people around you. I recover faster now.”

IB educator, international school
Shien Victoria Zutshi
The founder

Shien Victoria Zutshi

Shien has spent years interviewing CEOs, founders, and global leaders — studying what high performers actually do to sustain success without losing themselves. That research, combined with graduate training in counselling and nearly two decades in international education, became the foundation of Equilibrium by Design.

Of Kashmiri and Punjabi heritage, she has lived across five countries, speaks five languages, co-founded an NGO in Scandinavia, and sat on the Advisory Council of a World Bank Group initiative. She built EBD because she kept meeting the same person in different rooms: high-achieving, privately exhausted, and unsure why success never felt like enough.

Author, Anxious & Ambitious  ·  Graduate training in Counselling Psychotherapy  ·  Advisory Council, World Bank Group  ·  18 years IB education
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For organizations & schools

EBD delivers wellbeing and performance programmes for law firms, professional services firms, IB schools, and public institutions worldwide.

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Free resource — Equilibrium by Design
The Nervous System
Reset Toolkit

A practical guide for high achievers who need something that actually works inside a full life.

The 5-minute regulation protocol for high-stakes situations
How to identify fight, flight, or freeze — and the exit for each
Grounded in Polyvagal Theory and ACT
A one-page self-audit you’ll actually use
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