Services
About My Clients
My clients are individuals, couples, and families facing relational breakdown, anxiety, depression, trauma, and the weight of parenting challenges. Many are high-functioning people who sense something deeper is driving their struggles. Couples come disconnected or stuck in conflict. Families come when a teenager or behavioral crisis has stretched everyone thin. What they share: a readiness to do real work, not just manage symptoms.
My Background and Approach
I'm a psychotherapist working with individuals, couples, and families navigating complex emotional, relational, and behavioral challenges — the kind that erode connection and peace over time. My approach draws on family systems thinking, attachment theory, and intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) to help people move beneath the surface and work through the emotional patterns keeping them stuck. For individuals, that means getting underneath anxiety, depression, or relational patterns to understand their roots. For families and couples, it means breaking cycles of conflict and disconnection. My style is warm, direct, and collaborative. I offer a free consultation — and if I'm not the right fit, I'll help you find someone who is.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe real, transformative healing is possible for everyone — and that it requires more than learning skills or being told what to do. Knowing what to do is rarely the problem. That's why my work is experiential: creating new, real-time moments in therapy where change doesn't just get talked about, it gets felt and practiced. It's through those small, repeated experiences that lasting change takes root. Life can be messy and complicated. I know firsthand how isolating it feels to be in the middle of it — which is why I bring a non-shaming, non-judgmental presence to every person, couple, and family I work with. I'm a father, a Berkeley local, and someone who has done his own hard work in therapy. I know what it takes to sit with difficult things and come out the other side. That experience informs how I show up — with patience, directness, and genuine respect for the courage it takes to ask for help.