Specialty:

Therapy should leave you feeling better than when you arrived. Like a deep massage, the work can sometimes be uncomfortable,  but the goal is lasting relief and real healing, not just a place to vent.

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I believe you are the expert on your own life. My job is to help you use that expertise to break patterns that are keeping you stuck, work through what is underneath, and move toward healthier, freer functioning. That is true whether you come in dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship conflict, a major life transition, or a performance block that has you playing below your level.

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I provide evidence-based therapy and draw from person-centered, interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and mindfulness-based approaches. I tailor what I use to the person in front of me, not the other way around.

 

Trauma Therapy: Brainspotting & EMDR

I am a Certified Brainspotting Therapist and trained in EMDR — two of the most effective trauma-focused modalities available. Both work with the brain and nervous system directly, reaching stored experiences that talk therapy alone often cannot access.

 

I use these approaches for PTSD, acute trauma, crisis recovery, and complex trauma. I also use brainspotting extensively in my sports psychology work, where stored experiences from past failures, injuries, and high-pressure moments are often at the root of performance blocks that traditional mental skills training has not been able to resolve.

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If you have tried therapy before and felt like you understood your patterns but could not change them, this kind of work is often what was missing.

Sports Psychology and Mental Performance Therapy

I have extensive experience working with athletes and high performers across a wide range of sports and competitive levels — from high school athletes navigating pressure and identity to adult competitors who have hit a ceiling they cannot push through on their own.

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In sport, we talk about performance being fifty percent physical and fifty percent mental. And yet most athletes receive almost no structured training for the mental side of the game. The time investment rarely matches the acknowledged importance.

I help athletes close that gap. My sports psychology work covers the full range of mental performance challenges: performance anxiety, the gap between practice and competition, confidence, focus under pressure, recovery from mistakes, return-to-play after injury, and the process goal orientation that separates athletes who perform consistently from those who are at the mercy of the moment.

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I use a structured approach that begins with understanding the athlete's sport from the inside — their history, their specific pressures, and what they are carrying into competition without knowing it. From there, we build practical mental skills they can use immediately, and do the deeper processing work — including brainspotting — that addresses what is actually blocking their performance at the nervous system level.

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Athletes who engage seriously with this work do not just perform better. They understand themselves more clearly as competitors. That clarity does not go away when the season ends.

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What to Expect in Therapy

Sessions are collaborative, practical, and relational. I put a lot of weight on the therapeutic relationship; you need to feel understood and supported before the deeper work can happen, and I take that seriously from the first session.

We will build coping skills, strengthen emotional resilience, and work through the deeper beliefs and stored experiences that are creating distress or limiting your functioning. I bring empathy, clinical insight, and humor to the work because therapy should feel human, not clinical in the cold sense of the word.

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I look forward to working together on this journey!

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Education and Professional Background

Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling – Ball State University

Master of Science in Kinesiology, Sport and Exercise Psychology – UNC Greensboro

Bachelor of Science in Psychology – Michigan State University

 

A Bit About Me

I'm a Midwest transplant who always dreamed of building a life in Colorado. My wife and I made the move and are now raising our family here — grateful every day to call this place home. I grew up in Southeast Michigan and have lived in North Carolina, Indiana, and Ohio along the way.

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Outside the therapy room, you will find me hiking, playing volleyball, golfing, reading, and fully immersed in football season. I am loyal to both Michigan State and the Detroit Lions, for better or worse.