Meet Thais Sky | MA, LMFT

We had the good fortune of connecting with Thais Sky and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Thais, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
When I graduated college, I came into the job market during a time of economic recession and I think that, plus my inability to imagine myself being happy climbing the corporate ladder, left me feeling jaded and confused. While it was scary to feel that way at a time where I enviously watched my friends secure jobs in finance and law, I think it also kept me open to other possibilities outside the traditional career path.

It was while working at my first job at a small family owned company that I started taking yoga classes and fell in love with the practice. It wasn’t long that I decided to pursue it as a job, and that decision took me down the path of holistic wellness, spiritual exploration, life coaching and ultimately back to grad school to become a psychotherapist.

It’s now been 15 years since that fateful day that I stepped on a yoga mat and I am so proud of that younger me for bravely going off the beaten path. While entrepreneurship has been fraught with challenges, it has also offered opportunities and experiences that I would never trade up.

Alright, so for those in our community who might not be familiar with your business, can you tell us more?
I started my business when I was 21 years old. I was living with my parents after college and while I was proud of having a job during a particularly challenging time for the job market, frankly, I was embarrassed. Embarrassed about the job and the income. Embarrassed to be back home after basing so much of my identity around going away for school. Embarrassed that, despite having graduated a year early, I was at a complete loss about what I wanted to do with my life.

In my search for purpose, I decided to try a yoga class, and that experience opened a door. It introduced me to the world of health, wellness, and spirituality in a way that both intrigued me and infused my life with community and momentum. It took a few more years of working uninspiring jobs before I decided to pursue my entrepreneurial vision full-time, and wow, what a terrifying leap that was.

Three years into being a full-time life coach, I went back to graduate school to become a psychotherapist. Now, I run a boutique private practice where I work with individuals, couples, and groups, as well as supervise and mentor other practitioners.

In reflecting on all that has transpired to bring me here, I recognize a few meaningful lessons. One is the importance of allowing ourselves to pivot, to change our minds and evolve as we do. Another is how deeply entrepreneurship stirs our unconscious life: our fears of failure, our longing for recognition, our uncertainty about worth. In many ways, this isn’t a flaw of business ownership—it’s the crucible that shapes us.

Because the truth is, building a business is less about mastering strategy and more about building the emotional stamina to tolerate uncertainty, disappointment, envy, and desire. It asks us to keep showing up even when the results don’t match our efforts, to hold our values in the face of unethical (but effective) practices, and to befriend the parts of ourselves that feel like impostors.

If we’re willing, entrepreneurship becomes a mirror… one that reflects both our defenses and our potential. It reveals where we still hide behind perfectionism, where we confuse productivity with worth, and where we long to be seen but fear the exposure that comes with it.

And every time we confront those inner anxieties and stay with them long enough to learn something true about ourselves, we don’t just grow our work, we grow our capacity to live with more integrity, humility, and depth.

My entrepreneurship journey has become a kind of analysis: a process of being shaped, undone and remade. It’s been a living conversation with the deepest parts of who I am. And I am forever in debt for what it has given me as a result.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I am deeply appreciative of my husband for the visible and invisible ways he holds our life together. His steady presence, humor, and belief in me make the depth of my work possible.

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