Phoenix Men’s Counseling.
Meeting life’s challenges.

Welcome!

If you’re experiencing feelings of failure, now’s the time to improve.

Men’s counseling can assist you in your relationship, your career, and your overall mental state. Depression and anxiety affect men’s lives in many negative ways. Low confidence and low self-esteem cause many of us to fall into self-destructive behaviors that might require immediate attention. 

Or perhaps you recognize the need to address your own anger and frustration. Any of these issues may be presently preventing you from living your best life. If you’ve tried without success to fix them on your own, you may have seen them worsen. 

But in looking for help with your struggles, you’ve made a valuable decision to seek out counseling or therapy. We’re glad you’re here! 

Men’s Counseling Specialties

Relationships and marriages demand more from men than in years past. Most men have plenty of room to improve upon skills like emotional intelligence, effective communication, stress management and self-care.  Many of us haven’t learned what it takes to achieve a successful intimate relationship of our own. Our parents had no way to impart all the skills we’d need, and there remains a lot we can learn to improve our success.

I assure you, most guys deal with a range of issues over the course of their lives. Our culture still produces outdated expectations for men to conceal their emotions and don an invulnerable warrior front. Toxic masculinity is the worst expression of this, and leads to strained experiences with others. We’re lonely, silent sufferers behind our games and personality armor.

As a man, it’s tough to go to friends or family for unbiased support, and books and online research can only do so much. You may have considered counseling before, but haven’t sought out a professional men’s therapist until now.  

Counseling helps you understand yourself.

Phoenix Men’s Counseling — taking on common struggles.

Counseling with us can help you with:

• Depression treatment for men

• Anxiety counseling for men

• Counseling for “nice guy” or people-pleasing issues

• Marriage and relationship counseling for men and their partners

• Divorce prevention or post-divorce counseling

• Infidelity counseling for men and couples

• Gay-friendly therapy for men and couples

• Working through anger, stress and irritability

• Pornography use or abuse

• Sexual performance issues

• Stopping self-sabotaging behaviors

• Taming your negative self-critic

I work with men on a variety of issues, and offer marriage and relationship counseling for individual men and couples. I create a space where guys feel comfortable getting real and opening up, and I provide the support and feedback that you’re looking for without handing you the answers.

I create an empathetic and non-judgmental therapy environment with the goal of helping you feel better, happier, more productive, and more at peace in your own life.

With self-awareness and communication skill-building, you’ll improve your relationships and uncover your own unconscious blocks —  the thoughts, emotions and behaviors that get in your own way. My passion is working with men to achieve this self-knowledge and autonomy for themselves. We’ll work together to challenge your old ways, and get you feeling happy and positive about your life again. 

I’ve worked with men for 20 years, and have witnessed the success of guys who complete therapy and achieve the results they sought from the beginning of treatment. They enjoy successful relationships, feel better in their own skin, and experience the rewards of their work and effort.  

“I don’t have the time or money for counseling.”

Men’s counseling is an investment in time, energy, work and money. Ask yourself what your life would be like without counseling, and what it may cost you to forgo it. Would your relationship or marriage get worse, or possibly end? Would you stay stuck in a job or career you no longer like?  Just like personal training, counseling takes time and effort to see results. But it’s worth the work to achieve the kind of changes you envision for yourself.

“I’m worried that I would be seen as weak or broken if I go to therapy.”

In some circles, there’s an outdated stigma surrounding men doing therapy. But in contemporary life, we understand that mental health requires the same attention and care that we give to our physical health. Anyone who works toward changing themselves and their lives is someone who is strong and responsible. I think it’s often harder for guys who don’t choose to go to therapy, who either assume they can do it on their own, or who choose to suffer in silence.

“I’ve tried therapy in the past, and it didn’t work. Why would this be different?”

It’s possible you may have been less motivated or prepared going into your previous therapy. Sometimes there’s a mismatch of therapist and client. If your therapy didn’t challenge you appropriately, it may have turned out less effective than you’d hoped. Or maybe you achieved some short-term changes that were ultimately unsustainable. I’d like to try to help you. I am glad you’re reconsidering counseling, with me as your therapist.

Find relief from negative emotions.

If you’re here because you want a male therapist who understands what you’re dealing with and can meet you where you’re at, then contact me now. Or, if you’re not quite ready, get my free download, “The Guy’s Airbag,” full of concrete tips and strategies for men looking to build better quality relationships.