Therapy for identity, intimacy, and growth
Welcome. Let’s begin. I’m Ian, and I practice at Sioux Falls Psychological Services.
I work with adults navigating identity, sexual intimacy, and change, and the ways those three may intersect.
Grief, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relational pain regularly come up in the work I do, and my approach accounts for it. If you're managing a diagnosis or just feel like something is off, either is a reasonable place to start.
About Me and My Work
I'm a licensed therapist working with adults and people in diverse relationships, including couples, non-monogamous partnerships, and other relationship orientations. My approach is psychodynamic and attachment-based, which in practice means we pay attention to patterns, history, and how earlier experiences show up in current relationships and self-perception. Mindfulness informs the work as well, less as a technique and more as an orientation toward what's happening in the present.
Before training as a therapist, I spent nearly two decades in financial services. That background informs how I think about change, identity, and the expectations people inherit around success and belonging.
As a gay man, I work from lived familiarity with identity and not just clinical training. Sex-positive and affirming care is central to my practice. Kink, non-monogamy, porn use, desire differences, and sexual identity questions are welcome here and not pathologized or treated as the problem by default. Candor helps me help you better.
The Work We Might Do
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Sex Therapy
Desire, function, intimacy, and pleasure are worth examining. This is a place to do that without censoring yourself.
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Identity Work
Connect with the parts of you that feel unfinished, unseen, or overdue. Name who you are on your own terms.
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Life Transitions
Change, loss, and uncertainty can feel unresolvable. This work helps you move through them at your pace.
