Licensed to practice in North Carolina and accepts 10 insurances. Specializes in Depression, First Responders/Healthcare Workers, Men's Issues and 10 more.
(he/him)
New to Grow
I believe meaningful change begins with understanding ourselves rather than judging ourselves. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, my approach is honest, collaborative, and practical, blending evidence-based approaches with curiosity, compassion, and authenticity. Together, we'll explore your experiences, develop practical tools, and identify meaningful changes that align with the life you want to live. I work with adolescents (15+), adults, and older adults from diverse backgrounds, having supported individuals across outpatient, community-based, and inpatient behavioral healthcare settings. While I welcome clients of all genders, I'm intentionally building a specialty in helping men navigate the unique pressures of masculinity, relationships, fatherhood, identity, burnout, and life transitions. My experience working across a variety of behavioral healthcare settings has also given me firsthand insight into the unique challenges faced by healthcare professionals, emergency responders, and others in demanding careers, including chronic stress, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, burnout, and the emotional weight of caring for others. Whether you're navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, or simply feeling stuck, my goal is to create a space where you feel heard, understood, appropriately challenged, and supported. We'll move at a pace that reflects your individual needs while working toward greater clarity, healing, and lasting growth.
Seeking treatment can feel overwhelming, especially when we're unsure where to begin. Our first session is an opportunity for us to get to know one another, understand what brought you to therapy, and determine whether we're a good fit for working together. There isn't a right or wrong place to start, and everything doesn't have to be figured out beforehand. Our first session is a Comprehensive Clinical Assessment (CCA). Although we'll gather important information about your history and current concerns, the conversation is designed to feel natural and collaborative rather than like a formal interview. We'll focus on understanding your current concerns, how they're affecting your daily life, and the experiences that provide context, creating a foundation for the work ahead. We'll discuss your symptoms, relevant medical and treatment history, significant life experiences, family history, and current stressors. If trauma or other deeply personal experiences come up, we'll only explore them as much as needed to understand how they're affecting you today. There is no expectation that you'll tell your entire life story during our first meeting. By the end of our first session, my hope is that you'll leave feeling heard, understood, and with a clear understanding of what comes next. Together, we'll use the information we gather to develop a treatment plan tailored to your individual needs and circumstances.
Therapy is more than having someone listen or offer advice. While feeling heard is an important part of the process, meaningful progress also requires honest conversations, new perspectives, and a willingness to examine patterns that may no longer be working for us. My role is to help you understand yourself more fully, identify what's keeping you stuck, and support you in creating lasting change. I believe therapy works best when we're both active participants in the process. I'll ask thought-provoking questions, offer observations, provide honest feedback, and appropriately challenge unhelpful patterns when it supports your growth. My role isn't to tell you what to do, but to help you develop the insight, confidence, and tools to make decisions that align with the person you want to become. Over the past 12+ years, I've worked across outpatient, community-based, inpatient, and other high-acuity behavioral healthcare settings, supporting individuals navigating concerns ranging from anxiety and depression to trauma, suicidal ideation, severe mental illness, and major life transitions. Those experiences have taught me that effective therapy isn't about following a script. It's about understanding the person sitting across from me and adapting my approach to meet their unique needs.
I work best with adolescents (15+), adults, and older adults who are ready to better understand themselves and are open to exploring new perspectives, even if they're unsure where to begin. Many of my clients come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, disconnected from themselves or others, or simply feeling stuck. Others are navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, relationship challenges, questions of identity or purpose, or the lingering impact of difficult life experiences. I'm intentionally building a specialty in supporting men as they navigate the unique challenges they face. Many of the men I work with are wrestling with societal expectations of masculinity, difficulty expressing emotions, relationship stress, fatherhood, identity, perfectionism, burnout, anger, grief, or the belief that they have to carry life's burdens alone. Together, we'll challenge unhelpful narratives, develop healthier ways of coping, and define a version of manhood rooted in authenticity, values, and self-compassion rather than others' expectations.
Top specialties
Depression
First Responders/Healthcare Workers
Men's Issues
Other specialties
Anger Management
Anxiety
Crisis Intervention
Grief
Self-Harming
Substance Misuse
Suicidal Ideation
Trauma and PTSD
I identify as
Man
White
Adults (18 to 64)
Elders (65 and above)
Teenagers (13 to 17)
North Carolina
Arlo
Cash - $150 per session
Centivo
Cigna
Cigna - HealthEZ
EAP:Cigna
EAP:Evernorth
Evernorth
GTEB
Tufts Health/Cigna
Trauma Informed Care
Many of the ways we cope today grew out of a need to survive at an earlier point in life. The very strategies that once helped us through difficult experiences often create challenges in other areas of our lives. Rather than asking, "What's wrong with me?" we'll explore, "What have I been carrying, and how has it shaped the way I see myself, others, and move through the world?" We'll move at a pace that feels safe, approaching your experiences with curiosity and compassion rather than shame or judgment.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Many of us develop ways of thinking and coping that made sense at one point in our lives but no longer align with who we are or who we're becoming. Together, we'll explore how our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors influence one another and whether the stories we tell ourselves are helping us become who we want to be. If not, we'll work toward healthier, more intentional ways of responding that reflect the values and goals that matter most to us.
Psychoeducation
There can be a great sense of relief in realizing, "I'm not weak or broken. There's a reason this makes sense." Psychoeducation helps us understand what's happening beneath the surface, helping provide context for our thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships. When we understand ourselves more fully, we're often able to approach ourselves with greater compassion and make choices that better align with who we want to be.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
Life doesn't stop being difficult simply because we want it to. Together, we'll learn to acknowledge difficult thoughts and emotions without allowing them to control us or dictate our decisions. We'll identify what matters most and take intentional steps toward becoming the people we want to be, even when life feels uncertain or uncomfortable.
Motivational Interviewing
There are often good reasons we do the things we do, even when part of us wants something different. Together, we'll explore the differences between where we are and where we want to be without shame, judgment, or pressure. My role isn't to tell you what you should do, but to help you uncover what matters most, strengthen your confidence in your ability to create the changes you want, and take intentional steps toward the life you desire.