About Me

I am a psychotherapist and associate addictions specialist licensed in North Carolina, Colorado, and Maryland. I work with those confronting relationship issues, life transitions, existential questions, and grief. My clients are of diverse backgrounds, but I specialize, research, and write about therapeutic work with men, and I am passionate about what I do. For more on my how I work, please see "My Approach" and "Areas of Focus" .

I began clinical care in residential treatment for adolescent boys in a group facility in 2012, then as a crisis counselor and court advocate at a crisis center throughout college. In 2014,  I moved to North Carolina, where I earned my PhD in sociology. During the course of my doctoral research, I became interested in men's mental health and saw a need for care for that population.

I received my master's in counseling soon after my PhD, during which time I completed a clinical internship in adult intensive outpatient substance use treatment in Raleigh and individual psychotherapy in Denver. I trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy at SouthLight healthcare and UNC-Chapel Hill in 2020. 

I am a lifelong student and  seek to better understand and reduce suffering in the world around us.  I remain engaged with research, writing, and theory to better serve others and  improve the practice of mental healthcare by developing alternatives to medication, institutionalization, and the third-party payer system. I continuously engage with training in existential psychotherapy, narrative therapy, and depth therapy, and I am a member of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.

Beyond session with clients, I am committed to the community that makes Durham my  home. I do personal work on meaning and attachment and engage with philosophical thought, Spanish, nature, writing workshops, running, cycling, and walking in the outdoors, and art/music.