Online video sessions across every time zone. American therapist with MA, Counseling from La Salle and MA, Sociology from UC Berkeley.
Working in Your Native Language
You moved abroad. You love it, or you're trying to. But something's off, and nobody around you quite gets it. Therapy works best when you don't have to translate yourself - when you can say exactly what you mean without losing something in the process. That's harder than it sounds when you're working with a therapist who doesn't share your language, your frame of reference, or your sense of what's normal.
How I Work
I focus on patterns, the ones you can't see from inside your own experience. You're too close to them; they feel like reality, not like a pattern. My job is to offer a different vantage point.
That doesn't mean interpretation from a distance. I'm present in the room with you, paying attention to what actually happens between us: what shifts, what tightens, what you circle back to without realizing it. When something moves, I name it. Most people find the stuck feeling starts to loosen once they can see what they've been doing without fully noticing it.
I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is about finding what's actually running the show, the pattern underneath the presenting problem. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about.
This is different from what therapy platforms offer. You're not matched with an available provider from a roster. You're working with one person, in an ongoing relationship, who is tracking you specifically, not your intake form, but what you actually say and do in the room over time. If you move countries, you keep your therapist. Most of my clients are somewhere between 3 months and several years in.
I'm American. You won't need to explain what your family is like back home, translate the cultural context, or justify what you miss. That matters more than it sounds.
Who This Fits
English-speakers living abroad who want to work with a therapist they don't have to explain themselves to. Relationship difficulties, something that's been building, something specific. You do not have to be ready. You do not have to know what to say. A few sentences is enough.
What Clients Say
“I came in thinking I knew what my issues were. I’d been over them a hundred times. But those were just the things I could already see. Aaron helped me notice what I couldn’t, and that’s where everything actually started to change.”
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“I didn’t think online therapy could really work. How do you feel a connection through a screen? But I’ve done in-person therapy before, and honestly, I’ve felt more understood by Aaron than by any therapist I’ve sat across from. He listens in a way that’s hard to describe until you experience it.”
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“A few years ago I suddenly developed prolonged panic attacks but couldn’t begin to understand what had caused them. Having been in therapy in the past, and being a counseling intern student, I felt I had exhausted my resources trying to figure out “What is wrong with me?” I can honestly say Aaron provides a form of counseling that is difficult to find anywhere else regarding efficacy. Not only has his approach been effective, but he also has provided me a safe space to explore aspects about myself I may not otherwise have felt able to. I cannot recommend him enough as he has helped me feel more myself than ever before.”
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“I’d been in and out of therapy for years. Different therapists, different approaches, none of it really stuck. Aaron helped me understand more in a few months than all of them combined. And he talked to me like a normal person, not like all this weird therapy-speak.”
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