Psychotherapy and consultation
I offer a highly focused, individualized, and relationally honest approach to psychotherapy and assessment.
Drawing on 20 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
We all face challenges in our lives we can’t address alone. People often contact me feeling stuck or detached from themselves, friends, and family, uninspired in their work, worried about persistent patterns, or concerned about issues of gender, sexuality, and intimacy. Sometimes people feel like they have lost track of their sense of purpose, desire, and connection, or have grown disengaged or afraid of the hostile worlds we move within. Others are concerned about a specific problem, symptom, or behavior they have been avoiding or doing their best to cope with.
If you would like to explore the possibility of working together, please email or call me to set up a 15-minute phone call about your concerns. If you are comfortable and we seem like a potential fit, we can then plan to meet a few times. Over this period, I’ll try to develop a better understanding of you and the challenges you’re facing. If I think I can help, and if those initial sessions feel useful to you, we can schedule regular psychotherapy.
My approach
With 20 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 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 patients and the questions and contexts 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. Many of us get used to keeping such dilemmas in the background. I work to help my patients 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 theory, developmental theory, critical theory, as well as other models when helpful.
Areas of focus
LGBTQ+ people
Straight and queer men
Artists, academics, and legal and medical professionals
Identity exploration and life transitions
Depression, anxiety, trauma
Concerns related to sex, sexuality, and gender
Relationships and family difficulties
Work and academic challenges
Self-destructive behavioral or relational patterns
Anger, emotional understanding and regulation
Ethical, moral, and religious concerns
Self esteem and decision making
Grief and loss
Seeing me for psychotherapy
I primarily work in-person in my office in SoHo in lower Manhattan. I am also able to meet virtually, though, and I am licensed in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Working independently from managed care networks allows me to offer clients greater privacy, flexibility, and individualized focus. My fee is $250. If you have an out-of-network benefit, I will provide a monthly statement (called a “superbill”) that you can submit to request reimbursement. I am often able to offer a sliding scale when necessary to help with accessibility. Please inquire if this could be helpful.
Please contact me to arrange a brief phone consultation and discuss availability for starting psychotherapy.