(he/him)
New to Grow
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience working with adolescents, adults, and families. A significant focus of my practice is supporting boys, young men, and parents. My work is grounded in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and CBT, with a practical, goal-oriented style that tends to resonate well with clients who are skeptical of therapy or unsure where to start. I also teach graduate social work at Fordham University, keeping my practice connected to current research and evidence-based frameworks.
Your first session is a chance for us to get to know each other and for me to understand what brought you here. You can expect a relaxed pace and no pressure to share more than you are comfortable with. Together we will begin to explore what has been going on, what you have already tried, and what you are hoping to move toward. By the end of the session my goal is for you to leave with a clearer sense of direction, feeling heard, and with at least one concrete idea of where we go from here. Above all, I want you to feel that this is a space where real change is possible.
My greatest strength is the rare combination of direct clinical experience, program leadership, and graduate-level education that allows me to see clients not just as presenting problems but as whole people within various complex systems, whether it be in their own families, schools, communities, and cultures. I am equally comfortable in a therapy room, a classroom, or a community coalition meeting, and that breadth informs how I approach every client relationship. I have a particular strength in engaging clients who are hard to reach, adolescent boys, skeptical men, and families who have been through multiple systems without feeling genuinely helped. I meet people where they are, follow their lead, and find a way in that feels authentic rather than clinical. What stands out most about my approach is the integration of Solution-Focused and CBT frameworks in a way that is genuinely tailored rather than cookie cutter so that means I draw from both toolkits fluidly based on what the client needs in the room that day. Clients leave sessions with something concrete every time, whether that is a strategy, a reframe, an assignment, or simply a clearer sense of direction. The results I look for are moments when I hear the magic words that someone has finally discovered that they are capable of far more than they originally thought. That is not an accident, it is the direct result of someone who finally sees their own strengths and is able to lead the life they want more on their terms than before our first meeting.
My clients are people who need an ally navigating ADHD, emotional and behavioral challenges that feel difficult to manage on their own. They may be struggling with anxiety, depression, family conflict, behavioral concerns, or simply feeling stuck in patterns that are not working. Often it is boys in families looking for practical strategies, or men seeking support and a collaborative partner who helps them build real skills and move toward the life they want. My aim is to follow my client's lead as the expert in their life to identify their strengths, clarify their goals, and take concrete steps forward.
ADHD
Child or Adolescent
Family Conflict
Anger Management
Anxiety
Couples Counseling
Christian
Man
White
Adults (18 to 64)
Children (6 to 12)
Elders (65 and above)
Teenagers (13 to 17)
Connecticut
Arlo
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
The way I use Solution-Focused Brief Therapy means we spend time building on what is already working. From our first session I will ask questions designed to help you identify your own strengths, past successes, and the small signs that things are already moving in the right direction. This looks like us setting goals at the start of treatment, noticing when things went right and what made that possible, and scaling progress in concrete terms you can actually feel. Between sessions you will leave with something specific to notice, try, or build on. For boys and young men especially, this feels similar to those little quests in a game that build up and strengthen you for your journey since it is action-oriented and you get to be in the driver's seat of your own progress rather than positioning me as the expert on their life.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
With my use of the CBT, we build a toolkit where we identify the thought patterns, emotional triggers, and behavioral cycles that are keeping you stuck, then work at interrupting and replacing them with strategies that actually fit your life. In session, this looks like identifying cognitive distortions that fuel anxiety or conflict, building structured coping strategies for emotional dysregulation, and developing between-session assignments that reinforce progress outside the therapy room. For those navigating ADHD, this is particularly valuable since this method helps create external systems and routines that compensate for executive functioning challenges rather than relying on willpower alone. Sessions are structured and goal-driven, so you always know where we are headed and how we are measuring progress, and through that, we know how we are actively shifting it.