Hi, I’m David.

Hi, I'm David.

I've been a therapist since 2006. Early in my career I worked in outpatient and inpatient settings, including work with children and their families — among them inpatient child psychiatry, where my role was supporting children and the parents raising them rather than treating the children directly. In 2012 I opened my own private practice.

In 2014 I trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy, and its attachment framework changed how I understood all of my work — not just with couples, but with anyone carrying the aftermath of a bond that's come undone. That's what drew my attention, over the years since, to the particular attachment ruptures that separation and divorce create and leave behind.

I'm a certified Focusing-Oriented therapist — it's the approach I've trained in most deeply and the one my individual work is built on — and my training also includes Emotionally Focused Therapy and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy. They start from the same premise: attachment needs don't switch off just because a relationship has legally or practically ended. Underneath the detachment — the distance, the conflict, the surface-level "we're done" — there's very often an attachment system still searching for security, still trying to find its footing. My work is to help you locate that directly: in yourself, in your relationship with your child, or between co-parents.

I'm also a gay man, and it informs how I hold this work. The end of a relationship is already a loss our culture struggles to make room for — and when the relationship didn't fit the standard script, that recognition tends to shrink further still. The particular shape a relationship took, the assumptions people bring to it, the quiet sense that its ending doesn't count quite the way a marriage is "supposed" to — I know those facets from the inside, and I can sit with them without needing them spelled out.

I practice fully online, with sessions for residents of California and New York. I've worked this way since 2017, which tends to make it more workable for people whose schedules, housing, and weeks with their kids are all in the middle of changing.