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When a relationship is struggling, it usually isn’t because you’ve chosen the wrong person. It’s because you’ve gotten caught in a cycle — one partner reaches, the other withdraws, and neither feels safe enough to stop. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps you see that cycle clearly and find your way back to each other. This isn’t communication coaching. It’s deeper than that.

Sexual concerns rarely exist in isolation. They touch on body image, relational trust, early learning, shame, and desire — all at once. As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, I work with individuals and couples navigating low desire, arousal difficulties, performance anxiety, pain during sex, mismatched libidos, and the broader question of what a satisfying sexual life actually looks like for you.

Sometimes the work is about a specific problem — anxiety, depression, a life transition that’s knocked you sideways. Sometimes it’s about something harder to name: a sense that you’re going through the motions, or that the way you’ve been living isn’t really working anymore. Individual therapy gives you a space to slow down, look honestly at what’s happening, and begin to change the patterns that keep you stuck.

If your sexual behavior has started to feel out of control — if you keep doing something you’ve promised yourself you’d stop — you don’t need more willpower. You need to understand what’s driving it. I work with individuals navigating compulsive sexual behavior with a psychodynamic, non-shaming approach that gets underneath the cycle rather than just managing it.

Most men who come to therapy aren’t falling apart — they’re stuck. Smart, self-aware, and quietly frustrated that insight alone hasn’t been enough to change things. Whether it’s sexual avoidance, emotional withdrawal, a complicated relationship with porn, or a sense that something is off but hard to name — therapy for men here is direct, depth-oriented, and built for people who are done with surface-level advice.

When the same painful dynamics keep showing up in your relationships — intense closeness followed by explosive conflict, fear of abandonment, difficulty trusting — the issue is usually deeper than behavior. I work with individuals navigating borderline and narcissistic personality patterns with nuance, compassion, and clinical depth, using Mentalization-Based Treatment to help you understand yourself and others with more clarity. I also support partners and family members trying to make sense of these dynamics.

If you’re looking for therapy that goes beyond symptom management — that helps you understand why you do what you do, not just how to stop — psychodynamic psychotherapy might be the right fit. This is depth-oriented work: exploring unconscious patterns, examining the defenses you’ve built, and making room for the emotional experiences you’ve learned to avoid. It’s not quick-fix therapy. It’s the kind that changes things at the root.

Buddhist psychology isn’t a technique I bolt onto therapy — it’s a lens that shapes how I understand suffering, attachment, and change. Concepts like impermanence, interdependence, and compassion aren’t just ideas here; they’re woven into the work. If you’re drawn to a contemplative approach to therapy — one that takes your inner life seriously without turning it into a self-improvement project — this may resonate.

My approach is grounded in psychodynamic and attachment-based thinking, informed by Buddhist psychology and contemplative practice, and shaped by years of specialized training in sex therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy. What that means in practice: I’m less interested in giving you tools and techniques than in helping you understand what’s actually going on — the relational patterns, the old stories, the ways you’ve learned to protect yourself that may no longer serve you. You can read more about my clinical perspective on the About page.

In person — I see clients at my office in Pittsburgh’s East End, conveniently located near Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, and Point Breeze.

Online — I offer my full range of services through secure, HIPAA-compliant video sessions for residents of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Rhode Island. Learn more about online therapy.

Fees — I work on a private-pay basis, which allows me to offer the kind of flexible, depth-oriented care that insurance-based practice often constrains. Many clients use out-of-network benefits to offset the cost.