Online therapy for men in San Jose and Silicon Valley is available through Life Telling Therapy, a California-licensed private practice offering virtual depth therapy for high-achieving men throughout San Jose, the South Bay, and all of California. Jon Holmes, LMFT, specializes in narrative therapy, executive identity, burnout recovery, trauma integration, and men's wound work. Free 15-minute consultations are currently available.
Silicon Valley builds men who optimize everything except the story they are living.
San Jose and Silicon Valley attract a particular kind of man: technically brilliant, driven by impact, accustomed to solving hard problems with the right framework. The software engineer at Apple or Google who has shipped products used by billions and quietly wonders why none of it feels like enough. The startup founder in Sunnyvale who has raised a Series B and still cannot sleep through the night. The VP of Engineering who has led teams through three product cycles and has never once been asked how he is doing. These are the men I work with.
Silicon Valley has a sophisticated wellness culture. Men here have coaches, therapists, meditation apps, and biohacking protocols. What they often do not have is a space where the story underneath the performance can be told without agenda or optimization. That is what this work is.
The identity cost of building in Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley has a specific wound pattern I encounter with regularity: the man who has fused his identity with his company, his product, or his technical output, and who arrives at a threshold where the external markers no longer answer the internal question. The post-IPO founder who achieved liquidity and found it hollow. The engineering leader who has been performing certainty for his team for so long that he no longer knows what he actually believes. The man who has built a life that looks exactly like success and feels like a stranger's life. This is the wound that brings most Silicon Valley men to this work.
100% Virtual. Available to Any California Resident.
All sessions are conducted via a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform. You join from your home office in Los Gatos, your apartment in downtown San Jose, or anywhere private. There is no commute on 101 or 280, no waiting room, and no gap in your calendar that colleagues can see. Sessions are 50 minutes and scheduled around the demands of a demanding life.
Who I work with in San Jose and Silicon Valley.
Tech engineers, product managers, and technical leaders at Apple, Google, Cisco, Intel, and the region's major technology companies navigating the gap between professional achievement and personal meaning. Startup founders and operators in San Jose, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, and Mountain View navigating the post-exit identity question or the weight of building at scale. Venture-backed executives and investors carrying the intersection of high performance and high personal cost. Physicians and healthcare executives at El Camino Health, Stanford Health Care, and the region's major medical systems. Men in midlife throughout the South Bay who have built remarkable careers in one of the world's most competitive environments and are quietly asking what the second half is for.
Life Telling Processing
Life Telling Processing (LTP) is a contemplative-archetypal approach to men's therapy developed over twenty years of clinical practice. Rather than managing symptoms, LTP follows the story underneath the struggle. The Silicon Valley engineer does not need another optimization framework. He needs someone to sit with him in the question he has not been able to answer with a framework. LTP is that kind of work: unhurried, serious, and oriented toward the story rather than the solution.
Does Jon Holmes work with San Jose and Silicon Valley clients?
Yes. Virtual therapy is available to any man who currently resides in California, including throughout the South Bay and Silicon Valley: San Jose, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Campbell, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, and all surrounding communities.
Jon Holmes, LMFT. California License MFC 45850. Virtual: throughout California. In-person: 7996 Old Winding Way, Suite 210, Fair Oaks, CA 95628. Phone: 916-534-8244.