Services
- Individual
- Couples
About My Clients
Much of my counseling practice over the past six years has been specializing in working with couples on helping them improve their communication, reestablish a sense of shared values, and navigating repairing emotional wounds from a loss of trust. I also often work with men and fathers, helping them discover and re-engage on the path they want to be on for their own improvement rewarding. I have also worked with women and men on recovering from postpartum depression and anxiety.
My Background and Approach
My path as a clinical social worker for the past seventeen years, and clinical therapist for ten years has led me to work with a wide spectrum of individuals and groups. I worked in an inpatient psychiatric hospital with children for the first several years in the beginning of my therapeutic work. Helping them through their trauma and integrating them back into their families. I worked with children as young as six through eighteen years old with many diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. It was important to me to integrate as much as possible their spiritual and cultural heritage into their counseling and care plans when possible. After leaving my work at the hospital, much of my counseling practice over the past six years has been specializing in working with couples on helping them improve their communication, reestablish a sense of shared values, and navigating repairing emotional wounds from a loss of trust. I work from a strengths-based perspective.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Caring for others, being of service, and being there for people when I can have been guideposts for me throughout my life. As a cisgender male I do not personally know what it is to be a member of the LGBTQIA+ community; but as a social worker it is a core value of mine to be an ally to everyone, but especially those in communities that are marginalized, and those that are under threat such as our gay, bi, and especially our transgender neighbors. I cherish my friends who are members of this community, and want you to know you have a safe space here with me. I have a strong belief in healing from previous religious trauma and social injustice. That is why I have volunteered with the suicide hotline in the past. I have been through suicidal ideation and know how lonely that feeling can be. I just want you to know that you can feel confident in being your genuine self in our sessions. Here in our space you matter, you are seen, and you are enough.