Therapy is a space designed around you, your agency, your values, and your capacity for growth. Healing unfolds when there is balance, compassion, and mindful awareness, and these qualities already exist within you. You are the expert on your own life and the guide of your therapeutic journey. My approach to therapy offers a supportive, safe, and affirming environment where your inner strengths can emerge and expand.
You already carry the resources needed to thrive. Much like an acorn holds everything it needs to become an oak tree, growth happens naturally when the right conditions are present. Therapy provides those conditions, support, safety, and understanding, so that your inherent resilience, insight, and potential can be unlocked.
This work takes place in a warm, secure, and nurturing space where all aspects of your well-being are honored. Mental health is interconnected with the physical, emotional, social, occupational, and spiritual dimensions of life. Therapy is not only about easing distress or reducing symptoms, but about helping you build a life that feels meaningful, balanced, and aligned with who you are.
Whether you are a child, adolescent, adult, couple, or family, my approach to therapy is tailored to your unique needs and goals. Sessions draw from a range of evidence-based approaches, such as CBT, DBT, ACT, IFS, Somatic Experiencing, and others, while remaining flexible and responsive to what works best for you.
Rather than focusing on “fixing” or “curing,” therapy supports you in reconnecting with your innate capacity for growth and change. You remain in the driver’s seat, supported by a relationship grounded in warmth, respect, and genuine care. Through connection, compassion, and consistent support, meaningful and lasting change becomes possible.
Specialties
- ADD / ADHD Behavior Therapies
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Anger Management
- Anxiety / Stress / Worry / Stress Management
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Bereavement / Grief and Loss Counseling
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bullying
- Career Counseling
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Conduct Disorder
- Depression
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Divorce Counseling
- Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
- Life Coaching / Life Transition
- Marriage
- Men's Health Issues
- Mindfulness-Based Therapy
- Mood Disorders / Swings
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Parenting Counseling
- Phobias / Irrational Fears
- Play Therapy
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Pre-marital
- Relationships
- School Phobia / School Refusal
- Self Esteem
- Sleep Problems / Insomnia
- Sport / Performance Counseling
- Trauma
Languages spoken
- English
Gender
Male
Pronouns
he/him/his
In-network insurances
- Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Self Pay
Education and training
- Benedictine University - Master of Science in Clinical Psychology