When Is Too Tough Not Enough?

Men are often extraordinarily good at managing. At problem solving. At showing up for everyone who needs them. At keeping it together when keeping it together is what's required.

What's harder is knowing what you actually feel. Asking for help before you're in crisis. Letting someone else carry something for once. Believing that what's happening inside you is worth paying attention to.

It is.

Many men come to therapy not because they've broken down but because they're tired of the distance between who they are in the world and who they are inside. The performance of strength that leaves no room for anything else. The competence that became armor so gradually they didn't notice when it stopped being a choice.

Some men come because their relationships are suffering. Their marriages, their parenting, their friendships. Not because they don't care — often because they care deeply and have no idea how to close the gap.

Some come because they've been performing wellness for so long they've forgotten what it actually feels like.

Therapy with me is direct, practical, and honest. I won't pathologize your strength. I'll help you figure out what it's costing you — and what it would mean to put some of it down.

​You don't have to be in crisis to deserve support. You just have to be ready to stop managing alone.

My Approach

I work primarily from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy — structured, evidence-based, and focused on the connection between how you think, what you feel, and what you do. I'm one of fewer than 750 therapists worldwide to hold A-CBT Diplomate status through the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. Sessions are practical and collaborative. I'm not interested in making you a lifelong client.
My office is in Sawtelle, West Los Angeles 90025. Free consultation available — reach out through the contact page or call (310) 439-9144.