About
I am licensed in Oregon with 5 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, & trauma and abuse. My training and practical experience has been eclectic, touching on approaches including humanistic (relation-centered), action-centered, cognitive behavioral, narrative, and somatic. I also include in my grasp of any client appreciation for their family, social-cultural, and socioeconomic context. More recently my focus includes some emphasis on the impact of trauma. I have lived in Japan for 14 years of my adult life, as well as spent 30+ pursuing the practice of aikido, a Japanese martial art.
Philosophy and Approach
Every person has the natural capacity and tendency to heal and return to a healthy equilibrium. A person considering counseling is already making the first step of exercising that tendency. I believe that “loosening up” and releasing the many things we hold, particularly unconsciously, allow us to activate that capacity and return to, or discover, a healthier state of being. Top-down, this would involve uncovering our various thought patterns, reactions, and story that we have about ourselves. Bottom-up, it involves noticing and feeling - the various ways our body is in relation to how we are mentally. I hope to cultivate a relationship with each client to embody trust, safety, inquiry, and honesty, so that healing change can start in the therapy room and extend into one’s life.
Basic Data
Entity Type: Individual; Not Sole Proprietor
Organization Name: Mental Health Center Boulder County
Gender
Male
Therapy Specialties
- Addiction
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Career Counseling
- Depression
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Life Coaching
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Stress
- Trauma And PTSD
Years in Practice
5 years
Languages
- English
Healthcare Provider Taxonomy
- Code: 101YM0800X
- Grouping: Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers
- Classification: Counselor
- Specialization: Mental Health
Licenses
Name | License Number | State |
---|---|---|
LPC | C7318 Verify | OR |
Practice Locations
1333 Iris Ave
Boulder, CO 80304-2226
Phone Number: (303) 443-8500