Fred Sacklow

Life feels stuck, overwhelming, or disconnected — and you're ready for that to change. With over two decades of experience as a licensed therapist in Florida, I work with individuals and couples navigating depression, anxiety, stress, and relationship struggles using a psycho-dynamic, CBT, ACT and trauma approach — exploring the patterns and experiences that shape how you think, feel, and connect with others today.

My practice supports clients working through trauma, personality-related challenges, self-esteem concerns, family dynamics, isolation, guilt, shame, and attachment difficulties. In couples work, I help partners understand the deeper patterns driving conflict or disconnection, not just the surface-level arguments. I also have particular experience working with men, military veterans, young adults, and those in midlife transitions.

I offer a supportive, non-judgmental space where you can understand not just what you're struggling with, but why — building the self-awareness, insight and coping skills needed for lasting change, whether you're working through it individually or with a partner.

I draw on psychodynamic, CBT, ACT and trauma-informed work, and I choose the approach based on what you actually need session to session rather than a fixed script. With couples, that usually means slowing down the argument you keep having until we can both see what's really driving it. With individuals, it often means connecting a current struggle - isolation, guilt, shame, self-esteem- back to where it was learned.

Tell me what's going on and what you've already tried. I'll ask about your history where it's relevant, whether that's a relationship pattern, a loss, or something from your service that keeps resurfacing, and by the end of our first session we'll have a working sense of what we're actually working on and what the next few sessions will focus on. You'll leave that first conversation feeling heard, with a clearer plan instead of more confusion.