About

I'm a licensed professional counselor in the Commonwealth of Virginia and have been practicing in the field of counseling for over 15 years. My counseling is focused on working with men only. In working with men, I have noticed, and the research supports it, that men severely underutilize counseling services. I desire to break the stigma many men have of counseling and offer them a safe environment to receive support. I have advance training in working with men and wrote a dissertation on men and mental health, and have provided varying types of services to men (e.g., outpatient men’s substance abuse group, men on parole, men of all ages ranging from adolescents to older adults). I have treated a wide range of problems ranging from depression, anxiety, OCD, relationship issues, trauma, and childhood abuse.

My philosophy in counseling is to eventually make myself irrelevant to those who seek my counseling services. I have a mantra of “my job is to work myself out of a job.” I am not seeking to make people dependent upon me but rather to help clients learn to press into and utilize their support system around them. For some, that means learning to build a support system. For those whose faith is important to them, I seek to help those individuals learn to draw from their faith as a strength to help them grow. I believe the success of counseling is built on what is transpiring between sessions, meaning what work are people doing between sessions. I partner with the men I work with to create interventions to implement outside of counseling sessions. This is done to help people gain the necessary tools to grow and heal. Common counseling approaches I use are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Solution-Focused, and Narrative Therapy. My hope for everyone I work with is to eventually become obsolete because individuals have become equipped and are supported by those around them. I see my role in people’s lives as a tiny blip on their timeline in life. I consider it a great honor to be granted the opportunity to help people move toward growth and healing.