Services
- Individual
- Couples
About My Clients
My clients are highly gratified by the pursuit of success. Well, kind of, because while the rewards (material, recognition, etc.) do scratch the itch for a moment, the sense of achievement wears off a lot faster than the fatigue accumulates. Burnout City. Have you ever thought, "What more could you (the world) possibly want from me?" Or maybe "I just need this last car/house/promotion, then I'll know I'm good enough." If so, welcome to my dojo. I want to help you on the path to sustainability.
My Background and Approach
My educational background is in vocational rehabilitation. My professional background is in treating men, executives, physicians, and lawyers in early recovery. My personal background is in amateur athletics, recovery, marriage, and figuring it all out as a millennial man from North Texas. I think good therapy is primarily about two things, both of which come through a strong therapeutic alliance. The first, Insight, is simply about getting a better understanding of your life in the context of the world around you. The second, Corrective Emotional Experience, is learning by doing. I borrow from a lot of different modalities, and I do my best to tailor my approach to each individual. I can be more directive or more supportive depending on which is more likely to help someone grow in a specific moment. With my target population, a common pathway to healing focuses on helping people identify, expressing, and meeting their various emotional, informational, and social needs.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I have some pretty strong convictions regarding the American healthcare system. There's just so much junk and so many middlemen taking a cut while making services less effective, more complicated, and more expensive. It's not easy as a solo practitioner working outside of the insurance system, but knowing what I know now, I wouldn't run my practice any other way. And don't get me started on the way the medicalized mental healthcare system exerts unjust power over vulnerable people. I also think we have a really socially conservative mental health landscape in Fort Worth in particular. We try to keep things as quiet as possible and handle a lot of stuff through churches. There are definitely some great church groups out there, but overall we have a lot of unnecessary shame and a serious lack of accessibility to social support and secular services.