• Doctoral training with an emphasis on mixed-method, theoretically grounded research on class, gender, masculinity, work, and mental health.
• Experience designing and conducting interviews and narrative/ethnographic work on how men make sense of vulnerability, care, and dependency.
• Clinical-process questions in work with men: how shame, class, and masculinity norms shape help-seeking, alliance, and outcomes in psychotherapy.
• The overlap between men’s issues and eating disorders: underrecognized restrictive eating, compulsive exercise, and body image concerns in men who rarely present to traditional ED services.
• Development of community-based, non-institutional treatment models for chronic restrictive eating
• Integration of existential psychotherapy with liberation psychology and critical social theory in outpatient and community settings.
• Mixed-methods and program-evaluation research on long-term, community-based recovery housing for adults with eating disorders (symptom course, quality of life, employment stability, and belonging).
• Practice-based research within a men-focused private practice: tracking outcomes and process variables related to masculinity, shame, and relational risk-taking.
• Collaborative research on gut–brain–behavior links and how metabolic, GI, and psychobiotic interventions interface with psychotherapy for people with restrictive eating and trauma histories.
"Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness." - Rollo May
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