"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
— James Baldwin

You're here because something needs to change.

You may not be able to name it precisely yet. But something isn't working, and you're ready to do something about it.

Maybe you've been thinking about this for a while. Sitting with a decision that won't resolve itself, a transition that feels necessary but uncertain, or a question about what comes next that you haven't been able to answer alone. Whatever brought you to this page, something in your life doesn't look the way you expected it to.

Not because you haven't worked hard enough or made the right moves. You have. And yet there's a persistent sense that something is off. A disconnection between the life you've built and how it actually feels to live it.

The relationships that matter most are harder than they should be. The pressure to keep performing, producing, holding it together, has become its own kind of weight. And the cycles that keep repeating, in your relationships, in your own head, are exhausting in a way that's hard to admit to most people in your life.

You don't need someone to tell you what you already know. You need someone who can help you understand why, and what to actually do about it.

You are in the right place.

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Depth, Discretion, and Real Change

My approach is built on a single premise: Insight without action is just observation.

Good therapy requires more than a good listener. It requires clinical expertise, hard-won wisdom, and the courage to challenge what isn't working, even when that's uncomfortable.

I am a direct and active participant in this work. I will tell you what I observe, name the patterns I see in real time, and offer a perspective that is grounded in both rigorous clinical training and genuine firsthand understanding of the world you inhabit. You will leave each session with a clearer picture of what is actually driving your experience and something specific to work with before we meet again. This is not a practice where you do all the talking and I do all the nodding.

Your time and your privacy are treated with the same care as the work itself. Discretion is not a feature of this practice. It is the foundation of it.

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Services

Individual Therapy

For people who are exceptionally capable in most areas of their life and privately struggling in others. Executives, lawyers, founders, and high achievers who are used to solving hard problems and have met one they can't think their way out of alone.
This work goes beneath the presenting problem to understand what is actually driving it, and builds the internal capacity to handle what comes next. Sessions are direct, substantive, and oriented toward real change rather than indefinite processing.

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Couples Therapy

For couples at a genuine inflection point. Betrayal. A slow erosion of intimacy that has become impossible to ignore. High conflict that has become the default register of the relationship. The question of whether to stay or go, approached with clarity rather than reactivity. For couples earlier in their relationship, premarital work that builds a genuinely solid foundation rather than just covering the obvious topics. Most couples have been having the same argument for years. This work gets underneath it.

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Family Therapy

Families develop patterns that are nearly impossible to see clearly from inside them. This work helps every member of the family understand the system they are part of, take honest responsibility for their role in it, and build something more functional in its place. Including divorce, blended family transitions, and the family member who has been cast as the problem when the truth is more complicated.

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Group Therapy

A psychodynamic process group for people who are ready to do serious work in the company of others doing the same. Raw, honest, and deeply relational. The group becomes a live laboratory for understanding how you actually show up in relationships, not how you think you do. For the right person, the growth that happens here is exponential in a way that individual work alone cannot replicate.

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Infidelity & Betrayal Trauma

The discovery of an affair dismantles more than a relationship. It dismantles the version of reality you were living in. This work follows a specialized, phased approach: stabilizing the crisis, structured disclosure, genuine accountability, and repair. Betrayal trauma is among the most complex areas of couples work, and it requires a therapist with the clinical expertise and experience to guide both partners through it with honesty, skill and precision.

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What to Expect in Our Work

If you have tried therapy before and found it passive, you will find this work different.

I am a vocal and active presence in the room. I share observations, challenge patterns as they emerge, and offer perspective grounded in clinical training and firsthand understanding of the world you navigate. Sessions move with intention because I respect your time and I know you are looking for more than a place to vent.

We look at the past to understand how you were shaped, not to ruminate in it. How you relate to me in the room is often a precise blueprint for how you relate to everyone else, and that becomes some of our most useful material.

You will leave each session with a clearer understanding of what is actually driving your experience and something concrete to apply before we meet again. This is accountable, substantive work. It is also completely confidential.

This practice serves executives, founders, lawyers, and high-achieving professionals and couples in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, and across California via telehealth.

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About Me

I came to this work the long way.

Two decades in high-stakes professional life. Goldman Sachs. Royal Bank of Scotland. General Counsel and Head of Product at several companies that reached unicorn status. Co-founder of FinDox with a successful exit. And running alongside all of that, the slower and more demanding work of understanding myself honestly enough to actually change.

I know what it looks like to have a resume that reads as evidence of a life going well while something quieter and more important goes unattended. I know the defenses that carry you through the hardest chapters are often the same ones standing between you and genuine connection, and between you and the life you actually want.

That is not something I learned from a textbook. It is something I lived. And it is what allows me to sit with someone in the full complexity of who they are, see what is actually happening beneath the surface, and help them find their way toward something more honest.

I am a deep believer in what becomes possible when we finally get out of our own way. The clarity that arrives. The connections that deepen. The ability to finally hear yourself think. More joy. Less noise. The kind of confidence that comes from actually knowing yourself.

Most clients leave their first session feeling something they didn't expect. Hopeful. Understood. Curious about what comes next.

That's where the work begins.

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