Transforming the way executives lead from the inside out
At Tapia Psychological Consulting Services, we bring clinical psychology and executive coaching expertise to help you break through limiting patterns. Our approach integrates real world leadership experience with evidence-based practices for lasting transformation.
Meet Dr. Jones Tapia
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia is a clinical psychologist and executive coach who helps executives lead from a place of wholeness. Blending clinical insight with real-world leadership experience, she guides leaders to navigate the emotional and mental demands of high-impact roles with authenticity and confidence.
Dr. Jones Tapia's coaching approach is grounded in both science and experience: integrating emotional intelligence, healing-focused awareness and strategic planning to help executives thrive personally and professionally.
Since 2008, Dr. Jones Tapia has been helping executives and professionals transform their leadership from the inside out. Her journey began in clinical practice, where she developed deep expertise in understanding human behavior and the psychology of change, skills she now applies to helping leaders at the highest levels of their organizations.
It doesn't have to be this hard.
You've achieved success by almost every external measure. But the weight of leadership is taking its toll. The isolation, the constant pressure, the feeling that something essential is missing.
What if there was a way to lead that didn't require sacrificing your wellbeing? A path to sustainable excellence that begins with your own transformation?
Transform your organization
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The Clinical-Executive Difference
Hybrid Coaching Community
Leading Whole
A Coaching Community for Executives
Leading Whole is a coaching community for executives. The community kicks off with a day-long in-person workshop that will equip leaders with the tools for immediate impact. To maximize growth and sustain impact, leaders will then participate in 5 monthly virtual coaching community sessions.
Using Martin Seligman's PERMA model, Leading Whole is designed to assist leaders with optimizing how they show up and sustaining their optimal presence by:
Individual Coaching Sessions
Becoming Whole
A Personalized Journey with the Psychology of Purposeful Leadership
Becoming Whole is a personalized coaching experience designed to assist high-potential, high-performing executives to excel in challenging work environments. The journey consists of virtual coaching sessions scheduled at a cadence that meets the needs of the client.
Using a blend of clinical theories of wellbeing, Becoming Whole is designed to assist leaders with optimizing how they show up and sustaining their optimal presence by:
The Clinical-Executive Difference
Why Work with a Clinical Psychologist?
Most executive coaches focus on performance optimization. Dr. Jones Tapia brings something different: the depth of clinical psychology combined with real-world experience transforming one of America's most challenging systems.
Root Cause Focus
Address the underlying patterns that drive leadership challenges—not just the symptoms that show up in the boardroom.
Trauma-Informed Expertise
Understand how individual and organizational trauma impacts decision-making, relationships, and performance.
Systems Transformation
Experience leading large-scale cultural change in high-stress environments—translating to any organizational context.
Evidence-Based Methods
Interventions grounded in clinical research and psychological science, not just business trends.
Ethical Partnership
The highest standards of professional ethics and confidentiality, critical for executives navigating sensitive challenges.
Whole-Person Approach
Integration of personal wellbeing and professional effectiveness—because sustainable leadership requires both.
As the former Warden of the Cook County Jail in Chicago - one of the nation’s largest single site jails - Dr. Jones Tapia has proven that even the most challenging systems can be transformed through leadership that centers wellness.
What Leaders Experience
The Transformation
Many executives reach the top only to discover that success has come at a cost—burnout, isolation, and a nagging sense that their leadership could be more meaningful.
Dr. Jones Tapia helps leaders recognize that these struggles aren't personal failings but predictable outcomes of systems that weren't designed with human wholeness in mind. Through coaching, she provides the tools and support to rewrite these patterns.
The result is leadership that feels sustainable, authentic, and deeply connected to purpose.
From
Chronic exhaustion and burnout
The relentless pace has left you depleted, running on fumes while trying to maintain high performance. Your body and mind are signaling that something needs to change.
Isolation at the top
The higher you climb, the fewer people truly understand your challenges. You carry the weight of decisions alone, with no safe space to be vulnerable.
Reactive decision-making under pressure
When crises hit, you find yourself in survival mode rather than strategic thinking. Old patterns take over when you need clarity the most.
Success that feels hollow
You've achieved what you set out to accomplish, yet something essential feels missing. External markers of success don't match your internal experience.
Patterns that keep repeating
Despite your best efforts, the same dynamics play out in different contexts. You sense there's something deeper driving these cycles.
To
Sustainable energy and resilience
You've discovered rhythms of work and rest that fuel rather than deplete you. Your capacity for challenge has grown because you're no longer running on empty.
Authentic connection and support
You've built relationships where vulnerability is strength, not weakness. A network of trusted advisors and peers supports your continued growth.
Grounded, strategic leadership
When pressure rises, you access a centered place from which to respond. Your decisions reflect clarity and wisdom rather than reactivity.
Purpose-driven achievement
Success now feels aligned with your deepest values and vision. What you accomplish matters not just to the organization but to who you're becoming.
New patterns that serve growth
You've replaced limiting patterns with ones that support your leadership and life. These new ways of being feel natural and sustainable.
Ready to lead from a place of wholeness?
The first step is a conversation. Let's explore how we might work together.
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Let's Begin Your Journey
Taking the first step toward transformation begins with a conversation. Share a bit about yourself and what you're seeking, and I'll be in touch to explore how we might work together.
Reach Out If You Are:
- ✓An executive seeking deeper self-awareness and sustainable leadership practices
- ✓A leader navigating organizational change or high-stakes transitions
- ✓Ready to address the personal patterns that impact your professional effectiveness