Adults

I work with a wide range of mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, substance abuse, trauma, and grief. Our work together might include demystifying difficult emotions, processing trauma, improving self-esteem, coping with change, strengthening relationships, or increasing motivation and sense of purpose.

My clients are diverse, and I am an ally to all. Female clients appreciate the safe, healing connection with a male therapist. Male clients value my comradery in exploring what it means to be both strong and vulnerable.

Many of my clients are talented, successful professionals. Prior to becoming a therapist, I spent two decades in various corporate roles, including investment banking, managing teams for large digital media companies, and as a startup founder and CEO. This experience has helped me intimately understand and appreciate the challenges that come up (in work and life) when pursuing ambitious goals.

Couples & Families

I’m passionate about helping couples, wherever they are in their relationship. Emphasis is often on alleviating conflict and improving intimacy. I help couples shift the focus away from fault and blame and towards understanding and empathizing with each other’s unique experience. From there, safety and trust builds, creative compromises arise, and intimacy grows. Other topics include sexual intimacy, cultivating more joy, emotionally supporting one another, co-parenting, as well as exploring strengths and alignment -- shared values and goals can feel unclear, can be forgotten, or can shift. Whether you’re seeking to develop greater intimacy, work through an isolated challenge, determine whether to stay together, or move towards peaceful separation, I’m here to support you.

Helping families is another area of work that I care deeply about. Within any family, certain members can find themselves in difficult roles, difficult dynamics may be unconsciously passed down from generation to generation, and significant ruptures can get pushed aside rather than understood and repaired. I help families heal difficult dynamics and find more peaceful and constructive ways to interact. Whether your family includes young children or adult children returning to longstanding difficulties, I find this work deeply rewarding for all involved.

Mindbody (Chronic Pain & Cancer)

In this aspect of my practice, I help people navigate the many layers of chronic illness, including medical trauma, coping with symptoms, lifestyle changes, as well as the potential impact of emotions or stress on the condition itself.

Chronic pain is often stress-induced. This is referred to as TMS (Tension myoneural syndrome) or PPD (Psychophysiologic Disorder) and can include fibromyalgia, migraine attacks, irritable bowel, etc. Working collaboratively with physicians, I help these clients address the emotional underpinnings of these conditions, typically resulting in significant improvement or elimination of the physical symptoms.

Cancer’s origin typically is multi-factorial, and most oncologists affirm (and research supports) the idea that stress contributes to cancer progression. My work in this area is grounded in an intimate understanding of the research as well as my own lengthy struggle with lymphoma over a decade ago. I help clients, whether in treatment or exploring survivorship, deepen into the emotional aspect of the illness, enhance immune function, and improve disease outcomes.