Depth & Relational Psychotherapy
for Individuals & Couples
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
-Carl Jung
Offerings
Individual Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy can be helpful when you’re facing a specific challenge or feeling uncertain about the direction of your life. You may notice repeating emotional or relationship patterns, feel stuck, or sense that something needs to change. Common concerns include anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, work stress, grief, and addiction. My approach is grounded in a relational, depth-oriented psychotherapy, which looks beyond symptom relief to understand the underlying patterns shaping your experience. Together, we work to bring greater awareness to what has been operating automatically, so you can respond to your life with more clarity and choice.Therapy is a collaborative process focused on insight, self-understanding, and meaningful change—supporting your capacity to grow, adapt, and live with greater intention. To transform.
Couples Psychotherapy
My approach to couples therapy honors the complexity of your union by exploring the deeper, often unconscious patterns that shape your dynamic. Rather than focusing on surface-level arguments, we examine the underlying currents, personal beliefs, and histories that fuel connection and conflict, viewing these challenges as invitations to individual and relational growth. This deep investigative work for couples is grounded in a structural framework that also provides access to practical, actionable tools for communication and conflict management. By blending insight with tangible skills, and clarified goals, we will work to understand your connection, discern how to move forward, and when appropriate, effort to rebuild by using existing and newly built-out strengths and insights, cultivate shared meaning, and create a more resilient foundation for a conscious partnership.
About Me
I am a licensed Psychotherapist (LMFT) with an office off Piedmont Ave. in Oakland, California. I have been in clinical practice for over two decades.
My therapy orientation is an integration of depth, interpersonal/relational, existential/humanistic, and, when called for, harm-reduction oriented psychotherapy.
Along with providing individual and couples counseling and therapy, I have served in the non-profit community behavioral health sector as an Executive and Co-Executive Director, Program Director, and as a Clinical Supervisor for license candidates and substance use counselors. I have provided consultation services for organizations and individual providers.
I studied and dual-majored in Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and hold a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from San Francisco State University. I received my MFT license in 2010.
My clinical training is continuous, and I’ve most recently been involved in the advanced seminars at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.
Raised in the Midwest and educated in the East, I have called the Bay Area home for over 25 years. I am a proud father of two boys transitioning from adolescence to adulthood.
Specializations
Life Transitions & Individuation
We view periods of upheaval not merely as stressful disruptions, but as necessary rites of passage—opportunities to shed outgrown identities and step into a more authentic version of yourself. Therapy can be as space that promotes emergence.
Recovery, Harm Reduction &
Substance Use
I have over two decades of experience working with problem substance use and addiction from a more inclusive perspective. Meeting you where you are without judgment, we balance practical strategies for safety with a deep curiosity about the underlying function of your substance use, working toward shared goals.
Existential & Identity
By courageously facing life’s fundamental questions of meaning, isolation, and mortality, we can transform feelings of emptiness or anxiety into a deeper, more conscious engagement with your sense of purpose.
Men’s Work
I provide a space to look behind cultural masks, helping you access a fuller range of emotion and to cultivate relationships grounded in honesty and vulnerability, rather than outdated expectations.
Get In Touch
Ready to explore how I can support you and your goals?
Contact me to schedule a free and confidential consultation.
FAQs
Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or reach out anytime.
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Getting started is simple. Reach out through my contact form to schedule a free consultation call. Let’s see if we are a fit.
Alternatively, you can schedule a first full session.
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Individual - $225
Couples - $260
Individual sessions are 50 minutes.Couples sessions are 60 minutes.
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Yes.
While there are some drawbacks to not meeting in person, I recognize that not everyone is able to commit to in person sessions. I can offer a hybrid model, in-person, or Telehealth. -
Consistency is an important ingredient for positive change. To this end, the time slot we agree upon is reserved only for you.
You are responsible for paying the agreed-upon fee for any session(s) you do not to cancel with at least 48 hours' notice. A cancellation notice should be left in my voicemail or email.
I will remain open to attempting to reschedule and try to accommodate needed session adjustments as my schedule allows. However, this may not always be possible.
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Currently, I am an out-of-network provider.
Many insurance plans now include out-of-network benefits, and I can provide a superbill each month for reimbursement. Please verify your coverage with your insurance company.