Eric is a fully licensed marriage and family therapist practicing virtually and in-person in Manhattan’s Financial District and in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. He approaches therapy with a creative, inquisitive, and eclectic style. Eric has a range of interests and specializations including sex therapy, couples therapy, and working with teenagers and young adults. He sees the therapy room as a place where clients can talk about aspects of themselves and their lives that they don’t talk about anywhere else. Eric believes that by creating space to discuss the events of clients’ lives as well as their innermost thoughts, fears, and hopes, that he and they can work together to gain insight and develop as people.

Eric has received post-graduate certification in child and adolescent therapy from Manhattan’s Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center. He has completed advanced training in Narrative Therapy at the Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy and finished levels 1 and 2 in Hypnotherapy training from the Milton Erickson Institute. Eric has done extensive training in Sex Therapy at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and he was formerly the facilitator for the Sex Therapist Clinicians Collective as a fellow at the New York Marriage and Family Therapy Network. Eric studied Relational Life Therapy with Terry Real. He has trained in mindfulness techniques at the New York Insight Meditation Center, the Shambhala Chicago Meditation Center, and at the Zen Mountain Monastery.

Eric holds a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Mercy College, where he studied with luminaries such as Evan Imber-Black and Saliha Bava, and an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University, where he studied with writers such as George Saunders and Mary Gaitskill.

Eric is a writer and teaches fiction writing, journalism, and literature at Pratt Institute where he is an adjunct associate professor and formerly worked as an academic advisor.

Eric lives with his wife and two children in Brooklyn.