Depth-oriented therapy, ten minutes from downtown Menlo Park.
In-person at 667 Lytton Avenue in Palo Alto, one Caltrain stop or a short drive away — or by video anywhere in California.
Free 15-min consultation · 50-minute sessions
The office sits at 667 Lytton Avenue, a block off University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto. From downtown Menlo Park that is roughly ten minutes by car down El Camino or Middlefield, and a single stop on Caltrain from Menlo Park station, with a five-minute walk at the other end.
For people in Sharon Heights, Allied Arts or the Willows, it is frequently a shorter journey than driving to a therapist on the other side of Palo Alto. Worth knowing, because proximity turns out to matter enormously for whether weekly therapy actually survives contact with a real calendar.
Video sessions are available throughout California for the weeks when the trip is the thing standing in the way.
Menlo Park has its own texture. A good deal of my work here is with people in venture, finance and executive roles, and with their partners — which is its own category, because being the person married to the demanding career carries a loneliness that rarely gets named.
Common threads: success that has stopped producing any feeling; a marriage that functions administratively and has gone quiet underneath; the specific isolation of a job where you are expected to project conviction continuously and have nowhere to be uncertain; and the point in midlife where the plan was completed and turned out not to be the answer.
Also, frequently, parents — of teenagers navigating an educational environment that is genuinely intense, and of adult children whose lives have taken a shape nobody expected.
I practise gestalt and depth-oriented therapy: less analysis of your history from a distance, more attention to what is happening in you as you speak about it. Sessions are fifty minutes, usually weekly, and open-ended.
This suits people who have already tried the structured approaches and found them useful but insufficient — who can explain their own patterns clearly and watch them continue regardless. It is unhurried work. I do not hand out worksheets, and I will not claim that eight sessions will resolve something long-standing.
If that is not what you are looking for, I will say so in the first conversation and point you towards someone whose approach fits better.
667 Lytton Avenue is about ten minutes by car from downtown Menlo Park, or one stop on Caltrain from Menlo Park station to Palo Alto — the office is a five-minute walk from there. For most of Menlo Park it is a shorter trip than crossing Palo Alto.
Yes. There is street parking on Lytton and the surrounding blocks, and public garages within a couple of minutes’ walk. Give yourself an extra five minutes at peak times rather than arriving compressed.
Yes, anywhere in California. A number of people alternate — in person when the calendar allows, video when it does not. Continuity matters more than the format.
Yes. The specific pressures — performance measured in outcomes largely outside your control, an environment where conviction must be projected constantly, and a culture with very little room for uncertainty — come up often enough to be familiar.
Yes. Most plans do not cover couples work, so it is usually private pay. The couples therapy page covers how I work with two people in the room.
In-network with Aetna, Wellfleet and Stanford SHIP. Superbills for other PPO plans.