Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Group
About My Clients
I work with men struggling with what it means to be a man in today’s world. I also focus on clients transitioning out of a restrictive and domineering faith; emphasis on ex-LDS. I work with clients experiencing difficulties in their primary relationships surrounding intimacy, vulnerability and codependence. Similarly, I have experience working with people struggling with their own relationship to sex, sexuality and sexual identity. I have significant experience with alcohol and drug addiction.
My Background and Approach
I approach counseling through an existential-humanist lens. I come to counseling later in life. After 20+ years toiling in corporate America as an engineer in the semiconductor industry, I am intimately familiar with the feelings of isolation, redundancy and despair that accompany trading ones autonomy for the “golden handcuffs” of precarious financial security. I dedicated years of my life to academic achievement in the “hard” sciences of Physics and Applied Mathematics, ultimately attaining both a MS and PhD in Engineering, benchmarks that buoyed my pride and corrupted my emotional and spiritual balance; I spent years forcing my emotional intelligence to the background while I forced myself to don the caricature of the intellectual elite. Eventually the existential distress of this imbalance became too much and I made the significant change to focus on mental health counseling – I will spend the “productive” time I have left helping others find peace and stability within their lives.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
In our work together my goal is to help you re-establish a feeling of balance and harmony within your own life, following whatever path your experiences and personal goals suggest, always with the underlying objective of increasing your self-awareness. Through self-awareness we have the opportunity for growth. I have walked through tragedy; I have my own relationships to grief and trauma – I have lost loved ones to suicide, to overdose, to drinking themselves into oblivion. I am intimately familiar with the sense of near-crushing burdens and responsibilities we often place upon ourselves in effort to simply maintain a precarious sliver of comfort if not security. I am human, just like you. I am here.