Hi, I’m David.

I’ve been a therapist since 2006. Early in my career, I worked in outpatient and inpatient settings — including inpatient child psychiatry, where my role centered on supporting children and the parents raising them, rather than providing therapy to the children directly. In 2012 I opened my own private practice, and in 2014, after training in Emotionally Focused Therapy, couples work became my primary focus. Since then, my attention has increasingly turned to the particular attachment ruptures that separation and divorce create and leave behind.

My clinical training is in Emotionally Focused Therapy and Focusing-Oriented Therapy. Both 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 is 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 eventually between co-parents.

The practice is 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.