About Me
I started my undergraduate education with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After graduation, I worked as a salesman for ten years but always felt that I wanted to do more to really help people. While working, I went back to school, earning a Juris Doctor degree from Western State University, College of Law in 2001. My experience in Family Law and Criminal Defense led me to change careers again as I realized that I wanted to help on a deeper level. I discovered my true calling as I earned my Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Los Angeles in 2016.
Since 2015, I have worked with a wide variety of clients from many different walks of life. I started working at the Center for Individual and Family Counseling in North Hollywood, CA. While there, I worked with clients experiencing anxiety and depression, trying to adjust or change careers, or dealing with family challenges such as dating, child rearing or divorce. As an additional part of my training, I spent several years working in residential drug rehabilitation. I was focused not only on helping clients manage addiction, but also helping understand how trauma, mental health and childhood and family dynamics intertwined. I learned to meet each client’s challenges with understanding and insight, to help them visualize the change that they wanted and to explore ways to implement those changes. In my private practice, I weave this training together to offer care, compassion and insight to my clients, working to explore how their life experiences have led to where they are and ways to achieve their goals.
My work with single fathers has made me passionate about helping men take care of their children and themselves, learning to be better men and to parent or co-parent in the healthiest manner possible.
Among the various treatment modalities, I will use Psychodynamic psychotherapy, CBT, and Family Systems therapy to explore ways to restructure your thinking, your self-view and relationships. I will help you explore how your mind may be misinterpreting your life experiences in order to find surprising revelations, develop strategies and build adaptive coping skills.
In a calm and emotionally safe environment, you may allow yourself to explore thoughts and feelings that you have avoided or feared. Knowing that safety includes confidentiality, you may face these emotionally charged experiences with courage, whether involving addiction, homelessness, trauma, relationships, depression or anxiety.