I’ve spent a lot of my career sitting with people at very different points in life, from young kids still figuring out how to name what they’re feeling, to teenagers navigating relationships, figuring out who they are, and wondering what in the world they’re going to do after graduation, to older adults looking back on decades of life, relationships, loss, and change. Somewhere along the way, I stopped being very interested in what people are “supposed” to be and became much more interested in how they got here.

That’s a lot of what therapy is to me. Getting underneath the obvious answer. Understanding why certain things hit you so hard, why you keep finding yourself in the same patterns, or why something that once helped you get through life might be getting in your way now.

I’m pretty easy to talk to. I’m curious, I’ll ask questions, and I’ll tell you what I’m thinking. I have a sense of humor and use it. But there’s a clinical side to the work too. I use evidence-based approaches, and together we’ll set measurable goals so we know whether therapy is actually helping. I’ll support you, challenge you when you need it, and keep you accountable as we work toward them. And yes, sometimes there’s homework. You do have to try!

I’m also a gay man raising three adopted children with my partner. Creating a space where different people and different kinds of families feel comfortable being themselves matters to me.

You don’t have to come in knowing what you need to work on or how to explain it perfectly. We’ll start with whatever feels important that day and go from there.

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