SPECIALTIES

INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY

Individual therapy offers a focused environment to explore the psychological, emotional, and behavioral factors that shape your current challenges. Our work may involve examining thought patterns, increasing awareness of emotional processes, and identifying relational themes that impact daily functioning. The goal is to enhance insight, develop adaptive strategies, and promote greater alignment between your values and the way you live.

ADDICTION RECOVERY

Treatment for addiction emphasizes understanding the function of substance use while strengthening healthier alternatives for managing stress and distress. Recovery work involves building motivation for change, improving self-regulation, and anticipating high-risk situations to reduce vulnerability to relapse. Care also attends to the broader aspects of stability—such as relationships, routines, and co-occurring conditions—that support long-term recovery.

MEN’S THERAPY

Men’s therapy provides space to examine how cultural expectations, family influences, and personal beliefs shape identity and emotional expression. Our work often involves addressing barriers to vulnerability, exploring sources of relational strain, and developing a more flexible understanding of masculinity. This process supports improved communication, deeper connection, and greater psychological resilience.

LGBTQIA + THERAPY

Affirmative therapy recognizes the unique stressors created by stigma, discrimination, and marginalization. Sessions are oriented toward reducing the impact of minority stress, strengthening self-acceptance, and creating a greater sense of authenticity in identity expression. The process also highlights resilience, community, and empowerment as essential components of psychological wellbeing.

COUPLE’S THERAPY

Couples therapy focuses on identifying and reshaping relational patterns that interfere with connection and trust. The process involves strengthening communication, fostering emotional attunement, and addressing ruptures that may contribute to conflict or distance. Attention is also given to attachment needs and the ways in which past experiences may influence present dynamics, with the goal of creating a more secure and collaborative partnership.

DIAGNOSTIC CLARIFICATION

Diagnostic clarification provides a systematic way of making sense of symptoms, history, and functional concerns. The process includes exploring the onset and progression of difficulties, differentiating between overlapping conditions, and identifying the factors that maintain current struggles. The outcome is a clearer understanding of your psychological profile, which serves as a foundation for targeted and effective treatment planning.

THERAPY METHODS

My therapeutic work is grounded in a humanistic orientation, which emphasizes the inherent worth, dignity, and potential of each individual. I believe healing occurs most fully in the context of an authentic and compassionate relationship—one that provides both safety and challenge, empathy and accountability. Therapy is not simply a place to manage symptoms, but a space to explore meaning, cultivate resilience, and align life more closely with one’s values and aspirations.

At the same time, I recognize that compassion alone is not sufficient. Effective care requires clinical precision. I incorporate diagnostic frameworks not as rigid labels, but as tools that help us make sense of patterns, identify strengths, and clarify the challenges that shape your lived experience. When used thoughtfully, diagnostics help tell the story of your struggles and growth, situating them within a broader narrative of who you are and where you are headed.

To guide our work, I integrate evidence-based practices supported by decades of research. Depending on your needs, our work may include:

  • Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT):

    a structured and highly effective treatment for trauma that helps examine and transform unhelpful beliefs connected to painful experiences.

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT):

    practical, well-established approach that strengthens awareness of thought patterns, reshapes unhelpful behaviors, and builds healthier coping strategies.

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT):

    a skills-based method focused on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and improving relationships.

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT):

    supporting psychological flexibility by helping you stay present, accept difficult emotions, and live more fully in line with your values.

  • Psychodynamic approaches: deepening awareness of unconscious processes, relational patterns, and past experiences that continue to shape your current life.

  • Existential therapy:

    exploring questions of meaning, purpose, freedom, and responsibility, particularly during times of transition or uncertainty.

  • Interpersonal Therapy (IPT):

    a time-limited, evidence-based model that focuses on improving relationships and addressing the impact of social connections on mood and functioning.

  • Motivational Interviewing (MI):

    a collaborative, strengths-based approach designed to enhance motivation and resolve ambivalence around change.

  • Mindfulness-Based interventions (e.g., MBSR, MBCT):

    cultivating nonjudgmental awareness of thoughts and feelings to reduce stress, prevent relapse, and promote emotional balance.

  • Strengths-Based and Positive Psychology approaches:

    emphasizing resilience, meaning, and the development of personal strengths in addition to addressing problems.

  • Family Systems and Relational approaches:

    examining how family dynamics, attachment, and relational contexts influence current patterns of behavior and wellbeing.

  • Minority Stress Theory:

    recognizing the unique impact of stigma, discrimination, and marginalization on mental health, particularly for LGBTQ+ individuals, racial and ethnic minorities, and other marginalized groups; integrating affirming, identity-sensitive strategies that promote resilience and belonging.

This integrative approach allows me to bring together the humanistic commitment to authentic connection with the scientific rigor of evidence-based practice. Therapy with me is both warm and intentional: a collaborative process where insight, research-driven strategies, and compassion come together to support healing, self-understanding, and growth.

 FAQs

  • Our first meeting is focused on getting to know you. We’ll talk about what brings you to therapy, what’s been difficult, and what you’d like to achieve. You don’t need to prepare anything—just bring yourself and an openness to share at your own pace. Together we’ll create a plan tailored to your needs.

  • Individual sessions are typically 50 minutes. Most clients begin with weekly appointments, and we may adjust frequency as therapy progresses.

  • Yes. I offer secure video sessions via simple practice, in-office appointments in Fort Lauderdale or Delray, Florida, or a combination, depending on your preference and needs.

  • My session fee for individual and couple’s therapy is $300 dollars a session. The initial clinical evaluation feel is $450 dollars for an hour and a half assessment. Payment is collected at the time of service.

  • I am an out-of-network provider. Many clients use their out-of-network benefits and submit superbills for reimbursement. I’m happy to provide invoices you can send to your insurance company.

  • Sessions canceled with less than 24 hours’ notice may be billed in full. This helps ensure consistent care and protects reserved time.

  • Yes. Everything you share remains confidential, with a few legal exceptions (such as safety concerns or court orders). We’ll review this in detail at our first meeting.

  • I use HIPAA-compliant telehealth platforms and encrypted records systems. Email and text are used sparingly and never for sensitive information.

  • You may reach me by [secure portal/email/phone]. I respond within 48 hours, but please note I am not available 24/7. For emergencies, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.

  • If a higher level of care (like intensive outpatient or inpatient treatment) becomes appropriate, I will guide you through referrals and support the transition.

  • Yes, I offer evening and weekend appointments depending on availability.

  • We’ll discuss this together. Often, therapy winds down as you meet your goals and feel more confident managing challenges. Some clients choose to check in periodically for “booster” sessions.

  • Absolutely. Many clients return for support at new stages of life, or when new goals arise.