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About My Clients
You feel like you’re constantly on edge. Small frustrations turn into explosions, or you shut down completely. You try to keep it together, but the anger, guilt, and regret keep piling up. Maybe you’ve lost relationships, feel distant from loved ones, or struggle to connect with your partner. Deep down, you know you don’t want to live this way—but you’re not sure how to change. You’ve been taught to push through, but ignoring it isn’t working anymore.
My Background and Approach
As your therapist, my intention is to provide you a space free of judgement where you can discover and explore the parts of you that have long been neglected. I will help you challenge some of your long-held beliefs that are holding you back from expressing yourself, so that you can begin to live as the truest and most authentic version of yourself. Your way of doing things has gotten you this far, but now that you’re facing a problem that you haven’t faced before, your way of doing things is the very thing that is holding you back. Up until now everything has been very “figureoutable”. But as life got harder you noticed that your problems became less visible and more complicated, making it harder for you to come up with a solution for said problems. You could ask for help, but somewhere along the way the world taught you that no one is coming to help and it's up to you to figure it out. That changes now.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Growing up I was taught, “hide your feelings, don’t show pain, be a man.” These were the lessons I thought I needed to teach my kids to become well-adjusted strong men, fathers, and sons. But after years of working in youth shelters, rehab treatment centers, and child protective services, I saw the true results of these teachings. Violence, addiction, and self-harm. I also saw the impact this had in the lives of many men today: absent fathers, broken homes, and failed relationships. I’ve reflected on this and I say to myself, “What else did we expect to happen when you hand a boy his own raw unfiltered emotions with no guidance or model on how to deal with them appropriately?” The cycles that we men keep repeating and passing down to the next generation of men, come from the behaviors and patterns that we were taught by those before us. Now, my goal is to help as many men create and build healthier patterns of dealing with the crap our traumas left us with.