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 a number of significant losses that include parents, life partners, friends, family members, and beloved pets in ways that include 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. My clinical training in the L.A. area included community mental health (Airport Marina Counseling Services), high schools (Port of Los Angeles High School), and several profound years working underneath the supervision of grief specialist Debi Frankle, LMFT at Calabasas Counseling and Grief Center.

Currently based in Boulder, CO (and licensed to provide psychotherapy to clients in CA), 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 may be thinking, “Yikes! That’s a lot of self-disclosure from a therapist!” 

I agree, it is — and it’s intentional!

If you’re navigating significant loss, 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 and long-time resident who knows his way around the block. Should you ever need support, someone here’s got your back.