Psychotherapy and consultation
I offer a highly trained, individualized, and relationally honest approach to psychotherapy and assessment.
Drawing on 19 years of experience, I work with creative and analytic people who want to understand themselves and their relationships with greater flexibility and purpose and build openness to learning, connection, and change.
Choosing to start psychotherapy
Some people seek psychotherapy with a specific problem, symptom, or behavioral concern they have been avoiding or coping with as well as possible over time. Others contact me feeling more generally stuck or detached from themselves and others. Even with a lot of personal and professional success, people can sometimes lose track of their sense of purpose, desire, and connection. It is common for the goals and focus of psychotherapy to evolve and deepen as we start to think together.
The first step is to reach out to share what you can about your initial concerns. If we seem like a potential fit for psychotherapy, we can then plan to meet three or four times. Over this period, I’ll try to develop a better understanding of you and the challenges you’re facing and if I think I can help. If so, and if those initial sessions feel useful to you, we can schedule regular psychotherapy.
My approach
With 19 years of experience as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, educator, and researcher, I offer psychotherapy that is highly individualized, responsive, and relationally engaged. I work with adults and older adolescents struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, academic and professional pressures, complex relationships, and questions of identity, sexuality, and gender. I work with people of all genders but have particular expertise in practice with both queer and straight men. I work with reflective, curious, and creative people—including students, professionals, and LGBTQ+ individuals—who are seeking therapy that goes beyond symptom relief to deeper self-understanding and growth.
I am committed to working at your pace and will approach your concerns and goals with careful thought. I place a premium on respect for my clients and the worlds they navigate. My approach is supportive and engaged, but also serious, focused, and candid.
I am trained to listen for the detailed patterns in emotion, thinking, and behavior that signal unconscious dilemmas, conflicts, areas of inattention, and dynamics of hope, fear, ambition, depression, vulnerability, aggression, alienation, and recognition. People with a lot of success and achievement in their lives often get used to keeping such dilemmas in the background. I’ll share what I am hearing, and ask you to do the same—and often we’ll begin to find ourselves centering on a question or series of questions that you may not have realized you were already beginning to ask. Through this process, I work to help my clients find more flexibility in knowing and relating to themselves and others, build openness to change and thoughtful risk, and make decisions with more agency, purpose, and accountability. My practice draws on psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory as well as other models such as cognitive-behavioral therapy when helpful.
Alongside my private practice, I teach and write extensively on moral and ethical theory and clinical practice. There is more information on my published work available here. I am especially interested in how our responses to everyday moral challenges contribute to our sense of agency, purpose, hope, and connection, as well as intimacy with others.
Areas of focus
Depression, stuckness, and hopelessness
Anxiety, fearfulness
Relationships and family dynamics
Trauma
Self-confidence
Self-destructive behavioral or relational patterns
Anger
Sex, sexuality, and gender concerns
LGBTQ+ issues
Queer and straight men
Professionals, students, academics, and medical providers
Artists and creative professionals
Academic concerns
Ethical, moral, and religious concerns
Seeing me for psychotherapy
I am able to see people who live or work primarily in either New York or Pennsylvania, online or in-person.
Working privately with clients (and independent from managed care networks) allows me to offer clients greater privacy and a deeper, individualized focus. The session fee is $185. If you have an out-of-network benefit, I will provide a monthly statement that you can submit to request reimbursement.
Please feel welcome to contact me to arrange a brief phone consultation and discuss availability for starting psychotherapy.