About Me
Likely the only Todd you'll meet from The Bronx, I grew up on Hip Hop, humor, and resilience. My first career was in screenwriting — I was a WGA member and spent years telling stories for a living. But when I finally acknowledged how deeply grief and trauma had woven itself into my own story, I felt called toward a different kind of work.
I’ve experienced significant losses involving parents, life partners, friends, family members, and beloved pets — through death, divorce, estrangement, traumatic accidents, and more. Each loss was completely its own, and each one taught me something different about love, pain, living, and dying.
Those experiences led me to earn my M.A. in Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University, with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy. My clinical training in the Los Angeles area included community mental health (Airport Marina Counseling Services), high schools (P.O.L.A.H.S.), and several profound years working underneath the supervision of grief specialist Debi Frankle, LMFT at Calabasas Counseling and Grief Center. I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) providing psychotherapy to clients in both Colorado (LMFT #: 0003050) and California (LMFT #: 159804).
Based in Boulder, CO, I bring all of who I am to my work: therapist, writer, musician, yogi, Bronx kid, spiritual seeker, nature lover, and someone who believes deeply in meeting people exactly where they are. My approach is grounded, real, creative, and shaped by both training and lived experience that has strengthened my belief that the best grief support comes from someone who understands it from the inside.
You might be thinking, “Yikes! That’s a lot of self-disclosure from a therapist!”
I agree, it is — and it’s intentional!
As a griever, you may feel like no one could possibly understand the depth of your pain. I won’t pretend to fully know your experience of grief— it’s uniquely yours — but you can trust that I am very familiar with the neighborhood.
My hope is that you’ll find in me a caring neighbor who knows his way around the block. Should you ever need support, someone here’s got your back.
Below, I share more about how I work — and how I approach grief in particular.
My Approach
I take an integrative approach, which means I draw from a number of different modalities depending on what you need. I’m not married to any single psychological orientation — I use what works. That might include cognitive behavioral techniques, psychodynamic exploration, mindfulness-based practices, or a combination of all three.
My training is informed by psychodynamic theory, attachment theory, and a trauma-informed lens, with flexibility to adapt as your needs change.
How I Work With Grief
Grief is not something to “get over.” It’s a natural response to loss, and it looks different for everyone.
Our work often begins with some psychoeducation about grief, including dispelling common myths (such as the idea that grief follows neat, linear stages!). From there, we build a grief timeline to better understand your relationship to loss and how it continues to shape you.
When relevant, we also work with unfinished business — the things that were never said, including regrets, resentments, and appreciations. Many people believe they are powerless around these unexpressed emotions, but this isn’t necessarily true. Through intentional expression, and having that experience witnessed, you may notice a sense of weight beginning to lift.
The goal of grief work isn’t to erase pain or forget the person who died. It’s to help you reach a place where memories bring more warmth than devastation. The relationship hasn’t ended — it has changed forms.
It would be my honor to accompany you on your journey.
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