My priority as a therapist is to create an open and comfortable space for you so as to facilitate exploration and change. Taking that first step towards healing can be difficult and I am especially conscientious about validating that in your journey. I use strength-based, egalitarian, and person-centered approaches and I especially enjoy helping folks understand negative thought patterns that influence deeply held and sometimes unconscious core beliefs about themselves. Therapy can provide helpful tools and strategies to gain understanding and insight.

I worked as a bike tour guide, a riverboat captain, and an English teacher in Peru, Spain, and Nicaragua before moving to Utah and earning my master’s degree in counseling. I currently reside in Texas and provide telehealth appointments. I enjoy traveling and value unexpected knowledge of self and others that can be gained when we put ourselves in unfamiliar and challenging situations. I also enjoy spending time with my wife, and two toddlers, hiking, biking, and making new memories.

I am passionate about working with members of the LGBTQIA+ community, issues of self-acceptance, self-worth, positive identity formation, client empowerment, depression, anxiety, negative thought patterns, and working to find movement out of places in which we feel stuck.