A Network of Executive-Level Psychologists
Built for High-Stakes Leadership
Our nationwide network of executive psychologists brings together deep psychological insight, strategic intelligence, and real-world leadership experience.
Redefining Executive Well-being
Leadership at this level demands more than resilience.
Our psychologists understand the realities because we’ve led through them, studied them deeply, and partnered closely with thousands of executives.
Our Network
Our psychologists are a rare breed—intellectually curious, high-energy, and action-oriented. They bring elite-level expertise to high-stakes environments and thrive on solving the complex challenges leaders face under pressure.
We equip leaders with tools that work under fire, delivering results that matter and impact that lasts. When the pressure is on, our team doesn’t just rise to the occasion—they redefine it.
Founder
Kristen Tolbert, Ed.D., LPC
Kristen is the Founder of The ACP Group, where she brings sharp psychological insight to leadership and performance. A corporate psychotherapist and coach, she helps leaders and teams tackle challenges, boost resilience, and thrive under pressure—turning human dynamics into business success.
Kristen has worked with clients across several industries and has spent the past fifteen years engaged in the research, development, and delivery of executive mental health, leadership development, and workplace wellness programs. She spent five years working in-house with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, providing executive coaching and leadership development, and has consulted numerous teams and leaders across various industries, including global professional services firms including MBB strategy consultancies and Big Four accounting firms, Big Law, Big Tech, Banking, healthcare organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures.
Equipped with advanced insights, she integrates modern psychoanalytic principles into her work with organizations and leaders, offering a unique perspective on navigating complex workplace needs.
Her engaging communication style fosters meaningful connections, while her innate ability to read people and situations enables her to tailor solutions with precision. Kristen's approach achieves the perfect balance between reflection and actionable change. That's why her clients dub her their "secret weapon" and repeatedly rely on her expertise.
Kristen has completed the one-year program for modern psychoanalytic training at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. She holds a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership and a Master's in Counseling Psychology from Nova Southeastern University in Miami.
Founder’s Statement: Why I Built This
"I founded this work because I’ve seen leaders silently drowning in complexity, isolated by their own positions. Traditional executive coaching and wellness weren’t just insufficient—they overlooked the reality of executive life: frustration, anger, uncertainty, loneliness, and doubt.
Leaders need someone who can genuinely hear them—who can handle their toughest emotions without flinching or anxiously rushing to fix.
Most executive support systems miss the mark. They either avoid the emotional undercurrent of leadership altogether or try to smooth it over with cheerleading and surface fixes. But leadership isn’t smooth. It’s complex, messy, and often deeply personal.
Leaders don’t need more surface-level advice. They need to track the deeper patterns—support that can handle their sharpest emotions, absorb intensity, hear the signal beneath the noise, and create space for realignment.
This work wasn’t built just to solve problems. It was built to transform how leaders think and feel, empowering them to reclaim their voice and lead with extraordinary clarity, even in the hardest moments.
We’re building something different. Something that meets leaders where they really are—and gives them a space sharp enough, strong enough, and intelligent enough to hold it."
— Kristen Tolbert
The People Behind the Psychology
We don’t just support leaders. We’ve studied them, worked beside them, and helped recalibrate them from the inside out.
At The ACP Group, our executive psychologists aren’t just credentialed experts—they’re strategic partners and analysts who know executive psychology and performance.
Every member of our network brings advanced training, deep organizational insight, and years of experience guiding leaders through the kind of complexity most people only theorize about.
We’ve worked with founders in crisis, managing directors in global firms, and rising executives navigating massive inflection points. Our backgrounds cover psychoanalysis, cognition, executive coaching, and high-stakes leadership development.
And we’ve earned a reputation for seeing what others miss. Not because we talk the talk, but because we understand the psychological architecture of the executive mind. From tough decisions and team dynamics to high-stakes inflection points.
This is insight psychology built for real people leading under real pressure.
Psychology Partners for Executive Minds
We maintain a rigorous and selective process bringing in only psychologists with a proven track record of working with high-level minds.
Our providers are handpicked for their ability to navigate the emotional complexity, psychological demands, and strategic pressure that come with executive life.
We don’t just look for credentials—we look for people who can hold the room, read between the lines, and deliver insight that lands, sticks, and drives change where it matters most.
What Executive Leaders Deserve
Executive Psychology—Built From the Inside Out
Whole-Person Treatment
Leadership doesn’t protect people from being human. Our clients bring everything to the table and we treat all of it. Because the same mind making high-stakes decisions is the one carrying the emotional and psychological load of life.
Tailored Insight for Executive Minds
No worksheets. No checklists. No one-size-fits-all approach.
We deliver precision-driven psychological insight tailored to each leader’s role, internal architecture, and decision-making demands.
Expertise That Holds Up Under Pressure
Our psychologists bring depth, business acumen, and real-world leadership experience. We work with executive function, emotional complexity, and high-performance strategy.
Empathy Without Fluff
We understand pressure.
Our support is honest, attuned, and built to help leaders grow in ways that are both human and high-impact.
Collaboration Without Condescension
Our clients are some of the most capable people in the world. We treat them that way.
Our role is to bring sharp insight and skilled partnership.
Engaged, Present, Undistracted
We don’t dial it in. Our psychologists are fully present, deeply attuned, and committed to long-term, high-trust partnership.
Authentic Connection, Real Respect
We build trust by listening sharply, responding without judgment, and staying sharp enough to challenge what’s no longer working.
Modern, Evidence-Based Practice
Our methods are grounded in science and sharpened by experience—psychoanalysis, neuroscience, performance psychology, and decades of real executive work.
Respect for Corporate Complexity
We don’t rush to call a workplace “toxic” or advise leaving at the first sign of discomfort.
We help leaders discern, navigate, and respond—equipped with the insight to act on their own terms, and the clarity to know when it’s time.
What We Stand For
We exist because executive leaders carry pressure no one sees.
They deserve partners who see the whole picture and know how to help them lead through it.
Built for the pressure no one sees.
Designed for leaders who carry it anyway.
The future belongs to those who master human dynamics.
Our executive psychologists have guided thousands of leaders in high-stakes roles, combining clinical expertise, business intelligence, and practical leadership experience. Trusted by leaders from McKinsey, Deloitte, EY, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, The White House, Cooley, DLA Piper, NBA and NFL, Google, Netflix, Harvard, MIT, Yale, and more, we're experts at navigating complexity and pressure from the inside out.
