David Klein, LCSW

ATTACHMENT-BASED THERAPY · ONLINE IN CALIFORNIA & NEW YORK

Attachment shapes how we love, lose, and treat ourselves along the way.

Whether you keep landing in the same relational patterns, you’re harder on yourself than you’d ever be on someone else, or you’re grieving a bond the world won’t recognize, I work with the attachment underneath. My approach draws on Emotionally Focused and Focusing-Oriented therapy.

Who I Work With

Relationship patterns & self-worth

The same hurts keep finding you — in how you love, how you fight, and how you treat yourself. We work with the attachment underneath, so old patterns stop running the show.

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Couples therapy

The same fight, a growing distance, a bond that feels harder to reach. Emotionally Focused couples therapy helps you step out of the cycle and find each other again.

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Repair with an adult child

The parent–child bond doesn't expire when a child grows up — and even a strained or distant relationship can be repaired. Whether the rupture was loud or the closeness just quietly faded, the bond is still reachable.

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Co-parenting

You're no longer partners — but you're still your child's coordinated team, across two households. The custody agreement sets the schedule; this is about building the working relationship it can't create.

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Life after a divorce

Separation and divorce dissolve a marriage — but not the attachment it was built on. The grief, the protest, the ache at odd hours is the part no one prepares you for, and the part I work with.

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Breakup Grief

A breakup is grief, not just disappointment — the loss of an attachment, even when leaving was the right call. On why you still reach for them, and how to let yourself feel it.

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Pet Loss

Losing a pet is a real loss — the grief of a daily, unconditional bond, made lonelier by a world that calls it "just a pet." Including the guilt no one prepares you for.

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Some of the hardest losses never get a funeral.

A marriage. A pet. A grown child who’s grown distant. A relationship the world expected you to be over by now. An ending can be finalized, amicable, even clearly the right call — and your body can still reach for someone who's no longer there. It shows up as grief that arrives out of order, trouble trusting what comes next, and a heaviness that doesn't match the timeline everyone expects of you.

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Practicing since 2006 · private practice since 2012

Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist

Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist

Extensively trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT, EFIT & EFFT)

Attachment-focused work through endings of every kind

Fully online — California & New York residents

Start with a conversation.

Reach out for a complimentary 15‑minute phone or Zoom consultation — to talk through where things stand and whether this is the right fit. No pressure.

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