Rebuilding hope. Restoring joy.
Rebuilding hope. Restoring joy.
My clients come from a variety of backgrounds and ages seeking healing and understanding of their relationships and meaning in life. Some suffer from substance addiction, others from work stress or prior trauma, and many from wounded relationships in their family. Their goals are redemption of their suffering, building new ways of relating to others and clearing the pain of the past from clouding the joy of the present.
I have experience in addictions counseling and faith based work. The places of addiction, abuse and loss have often been the source of hope for my clients. Using a mixture of Lifespan Integration and existential therapy, I work with my clients to make meaning of their suffering. I believe that we are created, fallen and redeemed, and that our meaning is not made alone, but that God desires to make it with us. In seeking out healing our suffering can be redeemed.
I am a licensed clinical mental health counselor (License# LH61526870) and NCC board certified. I completed my master’s in clinical mental health at Bellevue University and my clinical internship was in residential substance abuse treatment. My theoretical orientation of therapy is a mixture of existential and solution focused theories, with an interest and specific training in trauma therapy. I have completed level 3 training in Lifespan Integration. I am a member of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association (CPA), and involved in the CPA journal Integratus. Learn more about the Catholic Psychotherapy Association in this video.
I graduated from MIT in 2015 with dual master’s in aero/astro and business. My data science skills include DoE, data modeling, machine learning, feature engineering, survival analysis, and SEM. My focus of research is the integration of spirituality and Thomistic emotions into clinical work.
I worked for 15 years at The Boeing Company in a mixture of engineering, management and data science roles. The radical example of St. Francis pulled at my heart to serve in a more profound and direct way than the corporate life, leading me to become a Catholic counselor. I now aspire to combine an analytical mind and a compassionate heart after Christ. Outside of Edify, I enjoy hobby farming with my wife, reading St. John of the Cross, and playing with my three young children.
