Psychotherapy in San Francisco
For Adults and Couples
(+ telehealth within California)
870 Market St #1055, SF CA 94102
Who I Work With
I work with adults who are ready to look honestly at their lives — even when what they find is uncomfortable.
Many of my clients have been in therapy before, sometimes with therapists who were too quick to offer solutions, books, or diagnoses. I take a different approach. I start from a place of not knowing, because your experience is yours — and together we work to make sense of what may or may not be working for you at this time.
I have particular experience working with LGBTQIA+ clients, people navigating kink, open relationships and polyamory, and anyone for whom sex, desire, and intimacy are part of what they want to explore. I work with artists and musicians, and with people navigating addiction and recovery. But I truly am a generalist at heart. I meet people where they are.
My Approach
Therapy with me is exploratory and open. You come in, start with whatever is on your mind. There isn't really a wrong way to do it. My job is to think about what you're saying and to bring my questions.
I work psychoanalytically, which means I'm interested in the narratives running beneath the surface—the ones shaping how you relate to people, how you feel about yourself, and what you do without quite knowing why. The work isn't about diagnosing or fixing. It's about discovering something together, and finding new stories that fit your life better.
I also work relationally. That means at times we might pay attention to what's happening in the room, a live space where patterns show up and where we can experiment with different ways of relating.
Something that often surprises people: I won't pathologize you. I work with the assumption that everything you're doing—even the things that feel irrational or self-destructive—made sense at some point along the way. It served a purpose. Perhaps it still does. Either way, we start by understanding it, not judging it.
My Path Here
I came to this work through an unlikely path—giving astrology readings, where I first experienced what it meant to sit with someone and help them make meaning out of their life. That experience led me to clinical training, but the core impulse is the same: a commitment to looking compassionately at what's happening for an individual, and claiming a sense of agency and meaning with that knowledge.
I'm a gay man, and while I don't work exclusively with queer clients, I understand from the inside what it means to have your experience treated as something to be explained or fixed. That shapes how I show up—with deep respect for your autonomy, in your sexuality and in everything else.