David Pecoraro , LMFT

David Pecoraro is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 37 years of clinical experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate relationship challenges, addictions, mood concerns, and the effects of past trauma and emotional abuse. He brings a practical focus to improving communication and conflict resolution, especially within intimate and familial relationships, and aims to help clients develop sustainable problem-solving skills and healthier patterns of relating.

His practice emphasizes collaborative treatment planning, tailoring interventions to each person or couple to meet specific goals. Drawing on a blend of evidence-informed approaches, he supports work on issues such as parenting and fatherhood concerns, blended family dynamics, codependency, infidelity, domestic violence and anger management, and mood disorders including depression and bipolar conditions.

As an LMFT - a licensed specialist in marriage and family therapy - he has extensive experience addressing both individual symptoms and the relational contexts that influence them. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, self-esteem and intimacy-related difficulties, helping them build practical skills for coping with life changes and repairing or strengthening relationships.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Treatment Options

David Pecoraro integrates several proven approaches to address relationship and individual concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change patterns that interfere with daily functioning. The Gottman Method focuses on improving couples' communication and conflict management, offering concrete tools to strengthen connection and resolve recurring relationship problems. Psychodynamic Therapy explores how past experiences and relationship patterns influence current feelings and behaviors, helping clients gain insight into deeper emotional drivers and relational dynamics.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. He works collaboratively with clients and other licensed professionals to tailor methods to each person or couple based on their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as work progresses.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit care into busy lives and to maintain continuity through transitions. These options support consistent access to therapy for relationship work, addiction support, trauma recovery, and coping with life changes while allowing clients to choose formats that feel most comfortable for them.