Services
- Individual
About My Clients
My clients are thoughtful people, usually between 25 and 50, who function well outside but feel tight, reactive, or stuck inside. Common threads: anxiety that stays a step ahead of you, anger that arrives before you know what it's about, overthinking that never resolves into clarity, or a life transition where the old way still works but no longer feels like yours. You don't need to be in crisis. You need to be ready to look closely at what's actually going on.
My Background and Approach
I came to this work through film. I made it and taught it, and what held me was people in their real moments, the hard ones, the ones that matter. In 2004 I volunteered on a suicide hotline and stopped wanting to capture those moments. I wanted to be useful in them. That's still what I'm here for. I'm a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over two decades of experience across private practice, outpatient care, community mental health, and interdisciplinary teams. I've held supervisory and leadership roles, mostly with clinicians early in their careers, and I still supervise. The work is introspective and practical. I use ACT, CBT, and mindfulness based approaches, and I don't force what's in front of us into a method. I pay close attention, I don't push, and I say what I notice. You'll usually leave with something to try. What you get is someone who has spent years learning to see patterns clearly and say so plainly, without turning therapy into another project to optimize.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Three voices have shaped how I think about this work: Fred Rogers, Carl Rogers, and George Carlin. The first two for what they understood about meeting people with steady, unconditional regard. The third for refusing to look away from what is uncomfortable or absurd about being human. I try to hold both, the warmth and the honesty. Taoist and Zen philosophy run through how I see things. Not as belief systems, but as ways of paying attention. The idea that things shift on their own when we stop forcing them. That clarity comes from stillness, not effort. That what looks like a problem is often just a pattern asking to be understood. None of this asks anything of you. You don't need to share these interests. They shape how I listen, not what you're expected to believe.