My Story

I wanted to be a therapist long before anyone in my life thought that was a serious ambition. So I went to law school instead.

For nearly two decades, I navigated the high-stakes arenas of law and finance. My career began as a structured finance lawyer and transitioned to investment banking, taking on senior leadership roles at institutions like Goldman Sachs and The Royal Bank of Scotland, and finally as a co-founder and executive in the tech sector at companies like FinDox, Figure, and RoofStock. By most measures, it was an extraordinary run. The work was complex and demanding and I was good at it. What made me good at it was the same thing that had always set me apart: an acute attunement to people, the ability to read a room, understand motivations, and sense what wasn't being said long before anyone said it.

I also lived what many of my clients quietly carry alongside their success: that persistent sense that something is still missing, even when life looks perfect on paper. When I had the freedom to do anything, I chose this. What happens in this room is the most meaningful work I know of, and my clients feel that from the first session.

The people I work with leave with more than insight. They learn to ask for what they need, to grieve what deserves to be grieved, to stop running the same patterns in their relationships and their own heads. They become better partners, better parents, and more honest versions of themselves. That is the work. And I find it endlessly worth doing.

My Approach

I am deeply relational in how I understand people. I want to know you in the full context of your life: your relationship to yourself, to the people you love, to your work, to meaning and purpose. Those threads are connected in ways that aren't always visible from the inside, and finding them is often where the most important work happens. My clients describe me as warm, direct, and genuinely engaged. What they appreciate most is that I am a real person in the room with them, drawing on a life that has included high-stakes career decisions, raising a family, and navigating the kind of complexity that doesn't resolve itself neatly. That shared reality creates the conditions for honest work, the kind that actually changes how you show up in every part of your life.

I step into this work fully. I share what I observe, name patterns as they emerge, and offer perspective grounded in both rigorous clinical training and firsthand understanding of the pressures you navigate. Every session is oriented toward something tangible: a shift in understanding, a new way of seeing something that has felt immovable, something concrete to carry forward before we meet again.

Before private practice I trained at Exodus Recovery, a residential crisis facility working with clients in acute psychiatric and addiction crises. That is where I learned how quickly things can unravel, and how much becomes possible when the right support is in place. It gave me a clinical foundation that no amount of private practice experience alone could replicate.

My approach is psychodynamic and depth-focused, which means we look beneath the presenting problem to understand what is actually driving it. I am also a trained mediator, which shapes how I work with couples and families navigating high-conflict dynamics. The work is direct, substantive, and held in complete confidence.

Outside the Office

I am a parent to two teenagers, which keeps me genuinely humble and more current on modern adolescence than I ever expected to be. They also remain firmly unconvinced that I am as funny as I think I am.

I have navigated divorce, co-parenting, and the particular complexity of building a blended family. What I know from that experience is that how you do it matters as much as what you decide. Preserving respect, protecting the people involved, and refusing to let the hardest moments define the relationship going forward requires a kind of wisdom that only comes from being in it. That is what I bring to clients navigating the same terrain.

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

-Viktor Frankl
This practice serves executives, founders, lawyers, and high-achieving professionals and couples in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, and across California via telehealth. If you are ready to do serious work with someone who understands your world, I would like to hear from you.