Specialties
Men’s Issues
Men seeking therapy face unique cultural, relational, and identity challenges that are under-recognized and under-treated. I provide targeted, strengths-based therapy for men at every stage of life, from young adults navigating identity and purpose, to midlife men recalibrating relationships and careers, and to older men coping with loss and transition. Common concerns include anxiety, depression, anger, disconnection from relationships, work-life imbalance, shame, struggles with intimacy, and intergenerational patterns. My approach integrates attachment work, existential inquiry, and practical skill-building to restore agency and build emotional fluency.
We begin with a detailed assessment of things like interpersonal patterns, desires, and behavioral cycles that maintain distress. I collaborate with each client to set goals that matter to him. Treatment blends reflective exploration with concrete interventions so progress shows up both in internal insight and external life changes. I emphasize developing emotional vocabulary, appropriate boundaries, and relational competence so men can perform better at work, lead more present family lives, and experience deeper satisfaction.
I offer short-term focused work for problem solving and skill acquisition, and longer-term integrative therapy for deeper personality and relational shifts. I have experience managing performance anxiety, restoring sexual confidence, treating trauma-related symptoms, and navigating separation or divorce with integrity. I also support men confronting addiction, compulsive behaviors, and risk-taking that undermine long-term goals.
Sessions are confidential, nonjudgmental, and tailored to a direct, practical style many men prefer. I incorporate experiential techniques when helpful, including role work and somatic awareness, to move stuck patterns out of the intellect and into real-world practice. For men who prefer hybrid care, I offer a mix of in-person and virtual sessions. If you are a man who values clarity, accountability, and meaningful change, therapy can be a powerful next step. Contact me to discuss how therapy can reconnect you to purpose, relationships, and a sustainable sense of strength.
Professionals
I specialize in therapy for lawyers, physicians, nurses, pilots, executives, financial professionals, and clinicians. Serving in a high-pressure role like these requires maintenance of performance while also managing chronic stress, ethical complexity, burnout, and the interpersonal strain of leadership roles. Other common presenting concerns include performance anxiety, moral injury, decision fatigue, perfectionism, boundary erosion, conflict management, work-related trauma, and rebuilding trust after a professional setback.
Therapy for professionals begins with an assessment that identifies stressors tied to role demands, organizational culture, and interpersonal dynamics. I am particularly interested in how an individual’s personality, relationships, and professional path have historically intertwined. Treatment integrates skills for stress regulation, attachment-based strategies for relational repair, and existential inquiry for developing motivation and resiliency. For executives and leaders, I provide work focused on emotional intelligence, strategic communication, and performance under pressure. For clinicians and legal professionals, I address the specific ethical and boundary challenges of caretaking and advocacy roles.
Interventions are tailored to fit busy schedules and confidentiality needs. I offer focused coaching-style sessions for immediate problem solving as well as deeper psychodynamic work to shift long-standing patterns that reduce effectiveness and wellbeing. Clinical work includes managing secondary traumatic stress in caregivers, addressing substance use or other compulsions that can follow chronic work strain, and improving work-life integration through practical habit changes and values-based planning.
Telehealth and flexible scheduling make therapy accessible for traveling executives and shift workers. My work is strengths-based, non-pathologizing, and outcome-focused. If you are in a demanding profession and want to preserve career longevity while improving relationships and mental health, therapy can be both preventative and transformative. Reach out to explore a confidential plan that aligns with your role, responsibilities, and long-term goals.
Addiction
Addiction is a complex condition that is best understood through an integration of biological, psychological, and social viewpoints. Each individual has a unique relationship with their target substance or behavior based on the interaction of many personal and environmental factors. I help people who wish to explore and change these relationships, often with things like alcohol, opioids, amphetamines, cocaine, benzodiazepines, cannabis, gambling, gaming, or sexual behavior. Treatment is integrative, evidence-based, and individualized to reduce harm, restore stability, and rebuild a meaningful life. Core components include medical coordination, building and maintaining motivation, planning for risky situations, and addressing underlying psychological and social issues.
The therapeutic process begins with a thorough assessment of substance use history, triggers, social supports, and co-occurring conditions such as depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder. My private practice exists at the less intensive end of a spectrum of care, which is most suitable for individuals who have successfully completed higher levels or alternately did not meet admission criteria for them. I have experience working in all levels of care and am happy to facilitate transfers to best support your needs.
Family involvement and relational repair are central to sustainable recovery. I offer many different family- and couples-inclusive services to help restore trust, rebuild communication, and develop clear boundaries that support sobriety. Practical skills include craving management, emotional regulation, stress reduction practices, and building routines that support sobriety. When medication assisted treatment is indicated, I am happy to coordinate with prescribers to integrate pharmacotherapy into the overall treatment plan.
Relapse is treated as informative rather than punitive. Each setback becomes data for refining triggers, gaps in support, or unmet emotional needs. Long-term recovery work focuses on identity reconstruction, vocation, and meaning to replace the role that the objects of addiction once served. I provide both short-term focused care for stabilization and longer-term therapy for deeper personality and lifestyle change. If addiction is affecting your health, relationships, or career, confidential therapy can offer a structured path to safety, competence, and purpose.
Trauma
Trauma can arise from a single life-shattering event or from repeated exposure to stressful situations that overload the nervous system. I treat complex trauma, single-incident trauma, developmental attachment injuries, and work-related traumatic exposure. Symptoms commonly include hypervigilance, intrusive memories, avoidance, emotional numbing, sleep disturbance, chronic pain, and difficulties with trust and intimacy. Care is trauma-informed, paced to the individual, and attentive to safety and stabilization first.
I offer two general pathways for treatment. The first, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), is a structured and time-limited approach that helps identify and reformulate unhelpful beliefs about the self, others, and the world that maintain post-traumatic stress symptoms. CPT is among the gold standard of empirically validated treatments for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), having demonstrated a high level of safety and efficacy across demographic categories and traumatic presentations. The second, more integrative approach is based on psychodynamic and interpersonal process work. This approach invites exploration of relational patterns, emotional defenses, and the unconscious meanings that shape one’s experience of trauma. It’s especially well-suited for clients seeking insight, emotional depth, and a more flexible pace of healing. Both options addresses symptom reduction and relational repair. When trauma intersects with addiction, depression, or anxiety, I treat the full clinical picture so recovery in one domain supports progress in the others.
If you are seeking support for trauma, I offer a confidential, compassionate space to reclaim safety, rebuild trust, and craft a life guided by values rather than fear.