Working together
Working together means just that.
When it comes to help, there is no one size fits all approach that can address the particulars of you and your life so...
- Together we will determine what it is that you are really seeking.
- Together we will determine how to go about it.
- Together we will evaluate our process.
Do these words speak to you?
"My work with Eric has not only helped me develop more intimate connections with the people in my life but more importantly with myself. I have worked with Eric individually and as a member of a number of groups over the past 15 years. These contexts have a common ground; a disciplined focus on the here and now experience accompanied by a practice of putting that experience into words. The group setting allows for authentic and empowering connections surrounding the commons experience. This is one of the best things to come out of my 19 years in NYC."Andrew Magnes, Architect, NYC
"What difference does Eric make in my life? Eric has made me feel, no matter what happens, I will make it through. He brings a sense of hope for relationships and helped me go through the most difficult feelings anyone could experience. And that is, sitting with myself. Eric's caring yet firm approach has been what I've sought in someone to help me along when I felt there was no hope. He has helped me to understand why I feel the way I do, which is something I've never experienced before. He has created experiences that I thought I could never experience. One of those was intimacy: making connections and relating to others. Eric brings an environment where gay men can come together and not feel as if we are the only ones out there, alone, struggling, feeling lonely. I am forever grateful the difference Eric has had in my life on relating with the most difficult person: myself."
Omar Zarita, NYC
"While my first sessions with Eric were met with suspicion, fear, and timidity, it only took a mere hour for me to place my trust in his benevolent care, and a mere few weeks for us to begin productively undoing the self-defeating mechanisms that I have felt so powerless against. Eric has been instrumental in making visible the very embedded and very real models of destructiveness that plague my life (and the particular lives of numerous LGBT individuals living in the city). Rendered legible, and finally understood as culturally contingent and therefore arbitrary, he has decluttered the space in my mind, making room for the potentiality of self meaning-making based on a life that is authentic, liberated, and fully present, and fully able to express and receive the gifts of love - be it of the self, or of others. Working with Eric is like having a comforting, assured hand walk you through the darkest corners of one's topographies of unattended trauma. Simultaneously reassuring, kind, compassionate, and gentle, Eric is also necessarily firm, assiduous, provocative, and perspicuous, matched with an easy, relaxed demeanor and ferocious intelligence."
Hansel Tan, Actor, NYC
"I started working with Eric to help me recover from a particularly traumatic break up. What I didn't expect was that in the process he would guide me towards a better understanding and appreciation of MYSELF... aside from all of the emotions I'd attached to that relationship. It was the beginning of an unexpected journey towards self discovery that continues to this day. He's not one of those "smile and nod" therapists. He got into the trenches with me and poses the tough questions that really made me think and feel. Eric is astute, witty and challenging. I'd recommend him to anyone seeking self knowledge and growth."
Shane Ballard, Artist, NYC
"I’ve never stopped learning from Eric – about the things that hold me back and how to overcome them; how to communicate - really communicate - with and listen to people; and a plethora of other concrete useable real-life tools that on a daily basis have made my life better. He has an incredible memory for things we discussed more than 10 years ago that I’ve long forgotten, particularly when I’m about to repeat a behavior that I had worked to remove from my repertoire of bad behaviors. Eric has always given me therapy I needed, not the therapy I thought or may have “wanted”. Which brings me back to the two main qualifications I had for selecting a therapist: that they clearly were smarter than me, and that I was confident they had the ability to accurately assess my mental health needs. Eric has always given me what I need, and has made me a healthier, happier, and better man in the process. .”
Rick Patt, MD, NYC
