Everything looks fine. It just doesn’t feel fine.
I help people shift the invisible patterns beneath their pain, opening space for more ease, fulfillment, and real connection in life.
You’ve built a life that looks the way it’s supposed to - the work, the relationship, the routine.
But inside, it feels different. The satisfaction doesn’t land. You’re showing up, but something feels off - like you’re watching your own life instead of living it.
Therapy is where we get curious about that difference -
the quiet space between how things appear and how they feel.
Meet Jon
Hi, I’m Jon. I’m an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) and an Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (APCC). I earned my master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, from Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology. I completed over 1,000 hours of clinical training at the Free Clinic of Simi Valley, where I worked with a diverse range of clients, including individuals, couples, and children. I now work in private practice in Westlake Village, where I continue to support clients in navigating relationships, personal growth, and emotional wellbeing.
I was born and raised in Europe. Before becoming a therapist, I spent years in the profit-driven world of technology companies in Silicon Valley and Europe. I saw how the corporate world shapes the human experience by rewarding compliance, control, and performance, at the expense of our inner lives. As we adapt to this world and become externally successful, we become commodities, increasingly alienated from who we are, and deprive ourselves of our biological need to express ourselves in a real way. This leads to our suffering that shows up as anxiety, depression, or physiological symptoms.
These experiences, along with my own healing journey, led me to become a therapist. My mission is to help people discover parts of themself they lost along the way, and reclaim their capacity to live, relate, and love from the inside out. As a side effect of this process is the alleviation of pain, symptom reduction, and personal growth.
My Approach
My approach is integrative. I find that many perspectives—relational, attachment-based, trauma-informed, and multicultural—overlap in how they describe human suffering. The complexity of our experience can’t be captured by a single lens; it’s best understood through multiple ways of seeing. This also means that therapy is most effective when it draws from several modalities and adapts to each person’s unique needs.
At the heart of my work is the belief that we are deeply interconnected with the people and environments around us. Our relationships interact with our innate dispositions to shape the internal maps that guide how we move through the world—and even influence how our brains develop. Over time, however, the patterns that once protected or helped us can begin to limit us. They can manifest as anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms, burnout, physical tension, or a general sense of being stuck.
The good news is that the same kind of relationship that once shaped those maps is also what allows them to change. The brain remains plastic throughout life; healing and transformation are always possible. Therapy works not primarily through words—which make up only a small part of communication—but through the psychobiological connection that takes place between two people. Within a safe and attuned relationship, our natural capacity to grow and to loosen the grip of old patterns begins to reawaken. This is how we open new possibilities and move toward feeling more alive, connected, and whole.
collaboration
Therapy works best as a partnership, a space where curiosity replaces judgment, and truth unfolds in conversation.
exploration
Real change doesn’t come from quick fixes. It grows from slowing down and understanding what’s happening underneath, the patterns, longings, and defenses that shape how you show up.
connection
Connection begins when you stop managing how things should feel and start noticing how they actually do.
From there, something real can happen - in you, and between you and others.
