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. I began training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in 2014 and have stayed with it ever since, through years of couples work, supervision, and consultation. It taught me how attachment ruptures actually move between two people.

But the center of my practice has always been individual, felt-sense work: helping one person find what’s happening inside them, often before it has words. Today that means Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) woven together with Focusing.

Focusing is the approach I’ve trained in most deeply, and Emotionally Focused work runs right alongside it. They share a premise: attachment shapes how we love, how we lose, and how we treat ourselves, and those needs don’t switch off when a relationship changes or ends.

Underneath the pattern, the conflict, or the surface-level “we’re done,” there’s very often an attachment system still searching for security. My work is to help you find it directly: in yourself, with a partner, with a grown 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 makes therapy easier to fit into full lives, including weeks that are in the middle of changing.