(he/him)
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over eight years of clinical experience working with teens and adults. I specialize in OCD, anxiety, trauma, and addiction, and I use evidence-based approaches including ERP, EMDR, and Flash Technique. My style is direct, structured, and collaborative, with a focus on helping clients reduce distress, build practical coping skills, and create lasting change.
Our first session is focused on clarity, assessment, and direction. I will ask questions to understand your history, current symptoms, and what you want to change. Together, we will identify initial goals and discuss which treatment approach best fits your needs. You can expect a structured, collaborative conversation that gives you a clear sense of next steps.
My approach is direct, structured, and evidence-based. I work well with high anxiety, intrusive thoughts, compulsive patterns, and trauma-related symptoms without avoiding what is difficult. I balance validation with accountability, helping clients build practical skills while also addressing deeper patterns. Clients often appreciate that therapy with me feels focused, goal-oriented, and grounded.
I work best with teens and adults dealing with OCD, anxiety, trauma, addiction, and relationship issues who are looking for structured, evidence-based therapy. Many of my clients feel stuck in cycles of intrusive thoughts, avoidance, emotional overwhelm, or unhealthy coping patterns. They want practical tools, deeper insight, and meaningful real long-term change rather than support that stays vague or directionless.
Cash - $150 per session
Aetna
Aetna - Allied Benefits
Aetna - ASR Health Benefits
Aetna - Lucent Health
Aetna - Luminare
Aetna - Medicare
Aetna - Moda
Aetna - WebTPA
Aetna – HealthEZ
All Savers
Amerihealth Administrators
Amerihealth NJ Medicare Advantage
Anthem
Arlo
AvMed
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Blue Shield of California - Medicare
Carelon Behavioral Health (Commercial)
Centivo
Central California Alliance for Health (Medi-Cal)
Cigna
Cigna - HealthEZ
Evernorth
Gold Coast Health Plan (Medi-Cal)
Gold Coast Health Plan Total Care Advantage (HMO D-SNP)
Golden Rule
GTEB
Harvard Pilgrim/UnitedHealthcare
Health Plan of San Joaquin/Mountain Valley Health Plan – Medi-Cal
Humana - Medicare
Humana Dual (Medicare & Medicaid)
IHSS Healthy Workers
Independence Administrators
Independence Blue Cross
Independence Keystone 65 HMO
Independence Personal Choice 65 PPO
L.A. Care Covered
L.A. Care Covered Direct
L.A. Care Health Plan (Medi-Cal)
L.A. Care Medicare Plus (HMO D-SNP)
L.A. Care PASC-SEIU
Optum
OptumHealth Complex Medical Conditions
Oscar
Oxford
Partnership HealthPlan of California (Medi-Cal)
San Francisco Health Plan (Medi-Cal)
Santa Clara Family Health Plan - Medi-Cal
Scripps Health Plan
SFHP Care Plus (HMO D-SNP)
Sharp Health Plan
Surest (formerly Bind)
Sutter Health Plan
Tufts Health/Cigna
United Medical Resources
UnitedHealthcare Life Insurance
UnitedHealthcare Shared Services
UnitedHealthcare StudentResources
UnitedHealthcare/Optum
I use EMDR to help clients process traumatic experiences that continue to trigger anxiety, shame, or intrusive reactions. EMDR helps the brain reprocess distressing memories so they feel less immediate and overwhelming. I prioritize stabilization first, making sure clients have grounding skills and emotional readiness before moving into deeper trauma work.
In Trauma-Focused CBT, I help clients understand how trauma has shaped their thoughts, emotions, and behavior. We identify self-blaming or distorted beliefs that developed in response to trauma and work to replace them with more balanced, evidence-based perspectives. This approach combines structured skill-building with gradual processing so clients feel supported throughout the work.
ERP is a gold-standard treatment for OCD, and I use it to help clients reduce compulsions and respond differently to intrusive thoughts. Together, we gradually face feared triggers while resisting rituals, reassurance seeking, or avoidance. Over time, this helps retrain the brain to tolerate uncertainty and reduces anxiety’s control. The work is structured, collaborative, and paced to build confidence.
Grief therapy in my practice focuses on making space for loss without forcing closure or rushing the process. I help clients work through complicated grief, identity shifts, and unresolved emotions after death, separation, or major life transitions. The goal is to help clients carry the loss in a way that allows for continued meaning, connection, and growth.
I use mindfulness-based strategies to help clients regulate anxiety, reduce reactivity, and become more aware of thought patterns. This can include grounding skills, breathwork, and learning to notice intrusive or distressing thoughts without immediately reacting to them. Mindfulness can strengthen emotional regulation and support long-term resilience.
8 ratings with written reviews
August 4, 2026
Professional, direct, and kind. Great insights and helps me to stay hopeful about my path forward no matter what issues we are working through!
July 22, 2026
He will be direct, he will challenge your thinking, and dig deep. That’s what my experience has been with Elan and I absolutely appreciate his style and “let’s roll up the sleeves and get on dealing with this” strategy.
June 11, 2026
Elan was already giving us practices and solutions on the first visit. He was listening and trying to understand our marriage and he actually was able to understand it quite well with the information we provided on our first visit. He. was helpful and truly encourages improvements. Only reason for 4 stars was because even though he was trying to help us, we just didn’t feel he was truly the right fit long term. Thank you!