Therapy for men · Pasadena & Northeast Los Angeles
Room to be more than one thing.
A place to explore relationships, parenthood, identity, and the questions that do not always have easy answers.
Connection.Expectations.Change.Identity.
07 / Therapy for men
A particular interest
What is it like to be a man, now?
There are many different ways of being a man, yet the expectations we carry can feel surprisingly narrow. Competence, independence, strength, and being able to manage things on our own may serve us well in some parts of life and leave us feeling isolated in others.
I have a particular interest in working with men who want to better understand themselves and their relationships—not because they fit a particular stereotype, but because their lives have become more complicated than the roles available to them.
What we might explore
When familiar ways of living stop working.
01 / RELATIONSHIPS
Closeness and distance.
Wanting intimacy while finding it hard to express needs, tolerate conflict, or remain present when someone else gets close. We can consider what happens in those moments and why familiar patterns keep returning.
02 / PARENTHOOD
Becoming a parent.
Parenthood can bring joy, love, ambivalence, pressure, and a sense of displacement all at once. It may change a partnership and stir memories of our own upbringing.
03 / IDENTITY
Success and dissatisfaction.
A person can be capable and outwardly successful while feeling unsure who they are outside work, caretaking, or what others expect of them.
04 / LOSS AND CHANGE
Grief, anger, and uncertainty.
Loss, separation, changes in work, or the passage of time can make once-reliable ways of understanding ourselves feel less certain.
How I work
Not a manual for being a man.
My approach is psychodynamic. That means we make room for the full complexity of your experience, including feelings that seem contradictory, relationships that remain difficult to understand, and patterns shaped by earlier experiences.
The work is collaborative and open-ended. I am interested in what matters to you rather than prescribing a single version of masculinity or a checklist of how you should feel.
I see clients in Pasadena and online throughout California. My office is accessible to people coming from Highland Park (90042), Eagle Rock, El Sereno, and surrounding Northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods.
Learn about my approach ↗︎A place to start.
If you are considering therapy, we can begin with a conversation about what brings you here and what you hope might change. I also work with adults and couples beyond this particular specialty.