Services
About My Clients
Many of my clients are executives, founders, attorneys, physicians and business owners, and the work stays on the person rather than the position. Individual therapy can start with a specific concern or a broader sense that something needs attention. Couples come to strengthen a good relationship, to understand growing distance, or in crisis after infidelity or betrayal. I also work with co-parents, including court-ordered co-parenting counseling, in person or online.
My Background and Approach
My approach is active, direct and trauma-informed. I listen closely, ask questions that go further, offer observations, and help you look at your life from perspectives you may not have considered. I want each session to have substance and direction, and for you to leave with something useful: a skill, a tool, a resource, or a different way of approaching a problem. Before becoming a therapist, I worked in structured finance and investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland, held senior legal and product roles at technology companies, and co-founded a fintech company through its acquisition. We don't need to spend half the session translating your professional world. I hold a JD from the University of Michigan and an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine, and I have doctoral training in clinical sexology. Advanced training includes Relational Life Therapy, Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Accelerated Resolution Therapy and mediation.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Few people come to therapy with a single, self-contained problem. Work affects marriage, money shapes freedom and responsibility, and childhood experiences can surface in parenting, so I treat these as connected. Insight is useful, although understanding where a pattern came from doesn't necessarily change it. When your intellectual understanding is well ahead of your ability to respond differently, we slow down and pay closer attention to what you feel. Accountability is part of the work, including a willingness to examine our own choices without reducing complicated situations to fault or blame. In couples work, both partners need room to be understood, including the partner whose behavior is under scrutiny. There's room for humor, which helps with hard subjects. My practice is private pay and I don't submit insurance claims, which allows for greater privacy. I can provide a superbill for out-of-network reimbursement, and I offer extended sessions and couples intensives.