About Paul

After a career in finance, including stints in investment banking and mortgage securitization, I decided that I needed a career that was more about people and less about spreadsheets. To that end, I completed training to become a therapist, which has been my chosen profession for a number of years now. I consider myself lucky to do work that is personally fulfilling and intellectually engaging, and I love having a job I actually enjoy thinking about on the weekends.

Fundamental academic training was a Master of Social Work degree, which I have since complemented with an ever-increasing number of professional training seminars and other courses on a variety of psychotherapeutic topics. I consider my development as a therapist to be ongoing and indefinite; it is one of my favorite aspects of this work.

Over the course of my counseling career thus far, I have had the privilege of providing psychotherapy to a wide variety of clients:

  • Veterans struggling with PTSD,

  • Adults, both married and single, trying to strengthen their relationships with spouses, parents, siblings, children, and others,

  • Professionals navigating dramatic career and life changes,

  • Incarcerated men and women determined to find a new path,

  • Adolescents overcoming stressful home and school environments as they try to become happy young adults,

  • Young children coping with the substance use challenges of their parents,

  • Retirees and older adults navigating health issues and other late life challenges,

  • Immigrants synthesizing complicated, painful pasts into a singular future that feels truly their own.

Becoming an ally to those trying to make meaningful changes in their lives has proven to be a profoundly rewarding career decision.

While I have found success working with clients from all walks of life, I have found that my pre-therapist professional background helps me bring particular value to those working in high-stress corporate jobs. I’ve worked with a number of attorneys, engineers, corporate salespeople, finance managers, executives, and entrepreneurs on many issues related to work. Typical issues I’ve explored with such clients include: how their past influences their engagement with their career, how they can change that engagement to the benefit of themselves and those around them, clarification of values related to work and life, and the potential benfits of adjusting or maintaining their current career path.