The Personal:

I didn't come to this work because I had it all figured out. I came to it because I didn’t. I experienced spiraling anxiety, depressive patterns, and periods of feeling lost, especially during transitions. At twelve, an early experience with grief planted the seed that people's struggles aren't disorders. They're ordered responses that make sense given what they're carrying. In my mid-twenties, a mental and emotional breaking point led me to research psychology, spirituality, and clinical practice. 

Soon after my "quarter-life crisis", I enrolled in a master's program in clinical mental health counseling and threw myself into the personal and professional work of understanding myself and supporting others.  Time and again in clinical practice, these experiences have been validated as I've witnessed incredible resilience from those I've worked with.  People are strong, not sick, and they are doing an incredibly courageous and vulnerable thing by breaking free of patterns, finding new ways of being, and sometimes re-aligning their entire lives with their own inner knowing.

The Clinical:

I hold a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and am a Licensed Professional Counselor in NJ, and Nationally Certified Counselor. I've worked across outpatient and intensive levels of care with adolescents and adults — including individuals in crisis. I've led therapeutic groups, trained in dialectical behavior therapy and trauma-informed care, and worked with people ranging from nine years old to their seventies. Through all of that, I've come to specialize in what I know most intimately: helping boys and men navigate emotional awareness and regulation, tolerate distress without harm, communicate clearly and compassionately, and fully engage in relationships — the places where men often feel most stuck and most alone.