Doctoral-level clinical psychology and authorship of parenting books focused on new fatherhood form the practice anchor for Jack Heinowitz, PHD, operating from a Mission Hills office on Hawk Street in 92103. The clinical specialty centers on men’s issues, new-parent transitions, and couple dynamics, a narrower lane than the general couples-and-family work at Jill Boyle, LMFT. The Relationship Counseling Center runs as a co-led practice, with sessions structured around the relational principle that it takes two — interventions consistently address dyadic dynamics even in individual sessions. Adult individuals, couples, families, and adolescents are seen in-office, with broad-based formulation pulling from psychodynamic, attachment, and life-stage developmental frameworks. Men’s-issues work is uncommon enough across San Diego’s clinical psychology rosters that the referral pool for couples needing a male therapist is small, with the closest peer specialization sitting at John McConnell, PhD. The deepest treatment lane is long-form couples work for partners navigating the transition to new parenthood — a niche that combines pre-natal anticipatory counseling, postpartum dyad regulation, and identity reconstruction across the first years of fatherhood.