Glad You’re Here

Read on to learn about me and my style as a therapist. If you still have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out and ask.

About Me

My journey to becoming a marriage and family therapist started in my teenage years. A biology teacher in tenth grade — after I told her I wanted to be a psychologist — suggested I look into marriage and family therapy. That set me on the path to where I am today.

I genuinely believe that the relationships in our lives are where both our deepest wounds and our greatest healing happen. And I believe that therapy, at its best, is a collaborative process — one that looks different for every person because we build it together.

My approach is warm, and at times, a little humorous. I'm not here to tell you how you should feel or what you should do. I'm here to make space for you and your story — to ask questions you might not have been asked before, and to help you clear away the ideas, beliefs, and/or emotional weight that stand between you and the life you prefer to live.

Outside of the therapy room I'm a husband of over twenty years, a guitarist, a reader, and someone who finds genuine peace in nature. I share my home in Georgia with my wife, our dogs, and our cats.

I hold a Doctorate of Marriage and Family Therapy from National University. During my doctoral training, I developed my own approach — Neuro-Narrative Couples Therapy — which draws on Narrative Therapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and the Neuro-Narrative Therapy work of Dr. Jeffrey Zimmerman. I am licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in Georgia, Florida, and Virginia.

What to Expect

Many people come to therapy not quite knowing what to expect — and that's completely okay. Here's what working together actually looks like.

Sessions follow a loose format, but ultimately you drive the direction. I'll ask questions, and you'll let me know what feels helpful. Some weeks we might stay with one topic; other weeks something more pressing comes up and we follow that instead. There's no rigid agenda, no homework assignments, and no list of things you're doing wrong.

My job is to serve as a guide — through your thoughts and emotions, your past, your hopes and goals. We'll explore what you value, what you want your life to look like, and what might be getting in the way of that. Often what people experience as a mental health struggle is really a conflict between other people's expectations and their own needs, goals, and sense of self.

I don't deal in blame. People, by and large, do the best they can given their circumstances. Sometimes it just helps to have someone with an outside perspective asking questions that shift things — and yes, sometimes we might even find some humor in it. That's not making light of your struggles. It's just another way of making them feel a little less heavy.

And if you're wondering whether what you've been through is "serious enough" — it is. If something is getting in your way, it matters. Full stop.