Build a relationship that makes home your sanctuary.

Before entering the relationship field, I spent nearly twenty years in financial technology, providing software consulting to billion-dollar hedge funds. As a former Division I baseball player, I've spent much of my life in environments that value performance, discipline, problem-solving, and results. Those qualities served me well professionally. But relationships require something more. They require us to understand ourselves, tolerate vulnerability, communicate directly, take responsibility for our impact, repair when we've caused hurt, and stay connected when our instinct may be to defend ourselves or pull away.

Those skills can be learned. And that's the work I now help people do.

Strong relationships aren't something you simply get lucky enough to have. They're something you learn how to build.

My wife and I met as students at Brown University and have now spent more of our lives together than apart.

Our marriage has included periods of incredible closeness and periods when we struggled to understand each other. I've experienced firsthand how two people who deeply love one another can still become trapped in patterns of criticism, defensiveness, anger, and withdrawal. I've also experienced what happens when those patterns change.