Brian (he/him) holds a master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from NYU and began his career as a therapist focusing on affirming care around gender and sexuality. Brian is a gay man with extensive lived experience in life and career transitions. Before becoming a therapist, he served as a lobbyist advocating for sexual and reproductive health for adolescents and young people in countries receiving U.S. foreign aid and later worked in management consulting and publishing. He is skilled in supporting individual and couple clients through phases of change in life, career, and relationships. Brian enjoys working with clients in all stages of life- those who are struggling with concerns including depression, trauma recovery, anxiety, relationship challenges. addiction, and career concerns.
In sessions, Brian collaborates with clients to take a step back from the day-to-day of their lives to understand how to develop lives they enjoy. Brian sees all clients as whole persons – with family, social lives, professional responsibilities and goals, sexual desires, physical needs, spiritual perspectives, and multiple intersecting identities. Brian aims to hear from all these parts of his clients – in their beautiful messiness, in a nonjudgmental space for his clients to grow, thrive, and find meaning in their experiences. He uses a psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approach to join clients in integrating unconscious needs and motivations into their conscious awareness, ultimately increasing self-compassion, and improving emotional regulation and behavioral decision-making.
Brian has specialized training and expertise in working with: gender, sexuality, LGBTQIA+ identifying people, poly/non-monogamy, kink, trauma, fetish sexualities, sexual compulsion, sexual inhibitions, solosexuality, sex work, addiction and substance use, parents and caregivers of LGBTQIA+ individuals, spirituality, online dating/hook-up apps, relationship lifecycle, depression, anxiety, self-esteem, body dysmorphia, aging, assertiveness, political activism, professional development and satisfaction, W/white accountability and antiracist culture, and self-actualization. Brian ran at The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center’s first psychotherapy group focused specifically on attachment styles and presented to other clinicians on best practices for working with clients who practice kink sexualities. He has also trained in community and justice-involved mental health care, having worked with agencies such as the Upper Manhattan Mental Health Center and the Center for Court Innovation.
