Individual therapy for the parts of your life that are hardest to talk about. I’m a licensed clinical social worker and an AASECT-certified sex and couples therapist based in New York City, and I work online with adults across New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Florida. Much of my individual practice is with gay and straight men working on sex, relationships, and the patterns that connect them.

Most people come in hoping to have a problem solved. What usually helps more is building the capacity the problem is asking for: getting through a difficult conversation without shutting down, wanting something and saying so, staying steady when someone you love is disappointed in you. I draw on emotionally focused, schema, psychodynamic, and acceptance-based approaches, and I tell you what I notice as we go.

What I help with: erectile difficulties, desire, and performance anxiety; porn, hookups, or sexual behavior that feels out of your control; relationship patterns that repeat from one partner to the next; a partner who won’t come to therapy; being gay, bi, or questioning, including within a marriage; Jewish identity and the loss of community after antisemitism; and the shame and self-criticism that follow people from one relationship into the next.

I hold an MSW from Yeshiva University, an MA in Trauma and Crisis Studies from Tel Aviv University, and certification in sex therapy through AASECT and the Modern Sex Therapy Institutes. I live in Brooklyn with my husband and our dog, Bernie.