Do you know how many strategies there are available to write a biography? Most advocate for extreme brevity, but you’re here reading this; you deserve to know who I am, what to expect, and what I can offer as your therapist.

Biography strategies often mistake marketing for the mark itself: the therapeutic alliance, the single best predictor of productive counseling. So, while I’m interested in meeting you, interested in empathizing with you, I have neither the interest nor the capacity to judge you. Judgment is easy to find; presumably, you came here looking for something different.

I’m a nationally board certified licensed professional counselor with a background in community mental health. My work draws from existential, narrative, intersectional, and trauma aware frameworks that consider both your inner life and the systems that shape it. I maintain cultural humility and affirming practices that acknowledge the historic and systemic stresses that come from existing in marginalized bodies. This doesn’t mean I won’t ever use CBT or DBT. It means that you’re at the center of the work, that the interventions are tailored to your needs, in context, in time, in the alliance.

When we work together, it’s two experts in a room. You bring the rich knowledge and expertise of your life, your concerns, and your goals. I bring years of evidence-based practice as a queer, neurodivergent, cisgendered white male therapist. I decorated the office, but it’s your space. That’s the work: parsing concerns, goals, levity, systems, treatments, irreverence, narratives, and resources — as experts.

I’m good at what I do; the better question we’ll answer together when we meet is whether I’m a good fit for your needs. Everyone deserves amazing care; it matters more to me that you receive it than that I’m responsible for providing it. I look forward to hearing from you — when you’re ready.