If you've learned to manage everyone else's emotions before you've had the chance to understand your own, you may already know how exhausting that can be—whether you're navigating adolescence right now or carrying those patterns into adulthood. Maybe you're the one everyone comes to for advice, but you have no idea who to call when you're the one falling apart. Maybe you're great at appearing fine, but maybe you're tired of it.

I'm Drew, and this is the work I do: helping adolescents and adults trace these patterns back to where they started, so they can understand not just what they feel, but why they've never quite felt allowed to feel it.

A little about my background: I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#149858) in Los Angeles. I received my Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Southern California, and trained at Beit T'Shuvah, a residential addiction treatment center, where I worked closely with individuals and families navigating addiction, grief, trauma, and mood disorders. From there, I worked in an intensive outpatient program supporting adults through anxiety, self-esteem struggles, mood disorders, and relationship difficulties.

Across both of those settings, I kept seeing the same thread: so much of what brings someone into a room with pain, anxiety, or a sense of being stuck can make more sense when we look at where it began — often in moments of feeling unseen, or learning that your feelings were too much, too inconvenient, or simply beside the point.

Together, we'll work with the anxiety, low mood, shutting down, or whatever brings you into therapy while also exploring where these patterns began. The goal isn't simply to make difficult feelings disappear, but to understand what they're trying to tell you—so you can begin treating your emotions as information rather than problems to solve.