About me

Growing up I learned about kindness, empathy, and strength through watching my family, especially my grandmother.  She worked as a nurse for many years, and after retirement continued to show compassion for others through visiting elders in her church, fostering children, and bringing food and compassion to those in need.  I knew early on the example she set for me caring for others, being of service, and being there for people when I could was the life I wanted to lead.  

My path in following her example led me towards working as professional social worker for the past seventeen years, and clinical therapist for ten years.  I worked in an inpatient psychiatric hospital with children for the first several years in the beginning of my therapeutic work.  Helping them through their trauma and integrating them back into their families.  I worked with children as young as six through eighteen years old with many diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.  It was important to me to integrate as much as possible their spiritual and cultural heritage into their counseling and care plans when possible.  

After leaving my work at the hospital, Next I transitioned to home-based therapy, working more with adults, seniors, and expanding my practice to include working with couples.  Much of my counseling practice over the past six years has been specializing in working with couples on helping them improve their communication, reestablish a sense of shared values, and navigating repairing emotional wounds from a loss of trust.  

As a father of four myself, I have also found a rewarding and growing part of my therapy practice working with other men and fathers to reconnect with themselves, find the man they want to be, and put in the emotional labor on becoming that man.  While I learned empathy and kindness from my grandmother, during my formative years I also learned grit, determination, and dedication to values through hiking in the mountains of New Mexico, canoeing in the Buffalo River, and making meals over a campfire.  Whether it’s working with men who regularly hunt, fish, and explore the outdoors, or men who prefer the excitement and energy of the city I find helping them discover and re-engage on the path they want to be on for their own improvement rewarding.