Areas of Expertise
I am trained in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to treat various forms of anxiety. I also use techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness to help my clients build skills and insight.
Anxiety and OCD
I am trained in Emotion-Focused Therapy to help my clients communicate more honestly and effectively. Whether in couples or individuals, I help my clients identify and express what they most need from the people they love.
Relationship Therapy
During my internship, I was a member of CU Boulder’s Transcare Team to provide care to trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming folks. My primary research area during my doctorate also concerned sexual wellness and gender. I identify as a straight cis-man. If you’re looking for a therapist who shares certain queer identities with you, I’d be happy to provide referrals to support you.
LGBTQ+
Life can be a brutal teacher, and we’re rarely given the option of when or if to learn those brutal lessons. I wade through grief and loss with my clients and, gradually, help them process what happened and what it means to them.
Loss and Grief
Depression can feel like the current state of things is the way it always will be. I help my clients understand depression not as a fixed truth about themselves but as something that can be explored, understood, and shifted. I work with my clients to gradually rebuild their sense of agency and reconnect with what matters.
Depression
There is something I find genuinely delightful about the way many people with ADHD move through the world—quick, associative, and alive to things others miss. But ADHD also comes with real trials: difficulties sustaining attention, initiating tasks, and planning ahead can make daily life feel like swimming upstream. I offer both ADHD therapy and assessment, with a focus on building skills and cultivating environments that work with how my clients are wired.
ADHD
Trauma has a way of reorganizing the nervous system around survival—leaving people stuck in patterns of protection that once made sense but no longer serve them. I work with trauma carefully and at a pace that feels manageable, helping clients process what happened without being retraumatized by it. Over time, my clients begin to remember their past, as opposed to reliving it.
Trauma
Cultural messages about masculinity have a way of cutting men off from their own emotional lives—and, in turn, from the people they love. I work with men on the particular ways these messages shape our relationships, our sense of self, and what we allow ourselves to feel.
Men’s Issues
Before my career as a clinical psychologist, I worked as a research fellow at the Environmental Defense Fund. The distress that comes from watching the natural world degrade is not irrational—it is a reasonable response to a genuine threat. Sometimes the work isn’t about treating individual symptoms but about finding solid ground in the face of systems that are failing to keep us safe.