My Approach

I I offer therapy that’s grounded, conversational, and responsive to the person in front of me. Rather than focusing on labels, diagnoses, or rigid methods, we focus on understanding—your experience, your patterns, and what feels most alive right now.

I don’t approach mental health or addiction as one-size-fits-all problems, and I don’t work from any single theory or method. My allegiance is always to the individual. I aim to stay curious, present, and honest, and to engage in real conversation rather than perform a clinical role. Therapy, as I practice it, is collaborative.

Much of this work involves slowing down to notice patterns, untangle familiar ways of thinking and reacting, and relate differently to what’s happening internally and externally. We’ll work with thoughts and emotions, but also with attention, meaning, and the rhythms of daily life. My interest is in helping you move with more awareness and flexibility, rather than toward some idealized version of yourself.

I come to this work with a wide range of lived experience. I’ve been many things—an athlete, an infantry soldier, a hitchhiker and rustic traveler, a runaway monk, a street vendor, a mentor to foster youth, a long-term expat, a volunteer ESL tutor in local jails, a backcountry park ranger, a full-time father. I’ve known steadiness and upheaval, clarity and confusion, hope and disappointment.

I don’t bring these experiences as credentials, but as context. They influence how I listen, how I relate, and how seriously I take the complexity of being human.

My hope is that therapy can be a place where you don’t have to perform, fix, or over-explain yourself—but rather a place to practice being with your life as it is, and to explore what it means to live it more honestly and fully.