Areas of Expertise
Men's Mental Health & Fatherhood
Fatherhood changes more than your role—it changes your identity. Whether you're preparing to become a father, adjusting to parenthood, balancing work and family, or feeling overwhelmed by the demands of providing for those you love, therapy can help you navigate these challenges with greater confidence and purpose.
I specialize in men's mental health and paternal well-being, helping men strengthen their relationships, become more intentional fathers, and reconnect with the values that matter most. My work integrates psychodynamic psychotherapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), helping clients understand longstanding emotional patterns while developing the psychological flexibility to live in accordance with their values. Through my leadership of Montefiore's federally funded HERO Dads program, I have spent more than a decade working with fathers from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Relationships & Couples Therapy
Healthy relationships don't happen by accident. They require trust, emotional safety, effective communication, and the ability to repair conflict when it inevitably occurs.
I work with couples experiencing communication difficulties, recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, parenting stress, life transitions, and questions about commitment. My approach draws from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and psychodynamic psychotherapy to help couples move beyond repetitive patterns, deepen emotional connection, and build more secure, resilient relationships.
Parenting & Family Relationships
Parenting is one of life's greatest joys and one of its greatest challenges. Every stage of a child's development brings new questions, stresses, and opportunities for growth.
I work with parents who want to strengthen their relationship with their children, navigate behavioral challenges, co-parent more effectively, or better understand how their own experiences influence their parenting. Together, we explore practical strategies while also examining the deeper emotional patterns that shape family relationships, helping parents raise children with confidence, warmth, and consistency.
Trauma, Life Transitions & Emotional Well-Being
Many emotional struggles, including anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and substance use, are rooted in painful experiences or longstanding patterns that developed as ways of coping.
My approach combines psychodynamic psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and mindfulness-based strategies to help clients process difficult experiences, increase emotional awareness, and build a life guided by purpose rather than fear or avoidance. Whether you're coping with trauma, substance use, addiction, major life transitions, or feeling stuck, therapy can help you move toward greater resilience, meaning, and emotional freedom.
My Integrative Approach
Insight. Acceptance. Meaningful Change.
I believe lasting change comes from both understanding yourself and taking meaningful action. My approach is grounded in psychodynamic psychotherapy, which helps us explore how your past experiences, relationships, and unconscious patterns continue to shape your thoughts, emotions, and relationships today. Together, we develop greater insight into these patterns—not simply to understand them, but to create new ways of relating to yourself and others.
I also integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), helping clients become less controlled by difficult thoughts and emotions and more connected to the values that give life meaning. Rather than trying to eliminate emotional pain, ACT teaches us how to respond to life's challenges with greater psychological flexibility, self-compassion, and purpose.
For many of the men and fathers I work with, therapy becomes a place where they can put down the pressure to always have the answers. We explore identity, relationships, work, fatherhood, and the expectations placed upon them while building the emotional awareness and resilience needed to lead with confidence, authenticity, and connection.
When working with couples, I draw primarily from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and psychodynamic principles. I help partners move beyond repetitive cycles of conflict, strengthen emotional safety, improve communication, and rebuild trust so they can face life's challenges as a team.
Above all, I strive to create a therapeutic relationship that is warm, collaborative, and genuine. I believe people grow when they feel understood, challenged, and accepted. Therapy should be a place where you can be yourself, make sense of your experiences, and develop the tools to build a life that reflects who you want to be.
