Relational, Trauma-Informed Therapy for Men, Teen Boys, & Couples
You’re not broken. You adapted.
It worked for a reason. But it may not be working anymore.
Serving Westlake Village and Greater Ventura County, CA, and all of California (Telehealth).
Hello, I’m Jon.
I’m a therapist working with men, teen boys, and couples in Ventura County and throughout California by telehealth. My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and grounded in the belief that many of our present struggles make sense when understood in the context of our past relationships and experiences.
Rather than only focusing on fixing symptoms, therapy with me is about listening to what they may be trying to show us. Anxiety, numbness, shutdown, conflict, or disconnection often carry the story of how we learned to protect ourselves, adapt, and survive.
Together, we may work on:
Understanding emotional and relational patterns that feel hard to name
Listening to symptoms as clues rather than simply treating them as problems
Making sense of anxiety, numbness, shutdown, or self-protection with more compassion
Exploring how past experiences shape present relationships
Reconnecting with parts of yourself that have been pushed aside
Who I Work With
Men
Therapy for men who feel pressure to hold it together while feeling disconnected inside.
Anxiety or irritability
Shutdown or emotional numbness
Relationship struggles
Feeling disconnected from yourself
Teen Boys
Support for teen boys struggling with pressure, emotions, identity, or family conflict.
Mood changes or irritability
Anxiety or withdrawal
Parent-child conflict
Trouble expressing emotions
Couples
Therapy for couples caught in conflict, disconnection, or repeating painful patterns.
Communication struggles
Recurring arguments
Emotional distance
Difficulty repairing after conflict
How I Work
Change happens through relationship — not performance, productivity, or pressure.
Therapy with me is a place to slow down and understand the patterns you developed in order to cope. Instead of ofrcing insight or giving you a list of skills to perform, we make room for what has been pushed down, protected against, or difficult to name.
My approach is relational, attachement based, trauma-informed, and experiential. We pay attention not only to what happened in the past, but to how those patterns show up now - in your body, your relationships, and sometimes between us in the therapy room.
Ready to begin?
You may not know exactly what you need, only that something feels off. Maybe you feel pressure, loneliness, conflict, shutdown, or disconnection. Therapy can be a place to begin making sense of what has been hard to carry alone.
The first step is simple…
You don’t need to figure it all out or know what exactly to say. A consultation is simply a chance to talk briefly and see if this feels like a fit.