I grew up in southeastern Kentucky in a working-class family and later spent my high-school years in Delaware. Moving between places and social worlds made me attentive early to the ways people adapt, conceal parts of themselves, and try to find belonging.

I came to psychotherapy through lived experience and clinical work. Since 2015, I have worked in crisis services, inpatient psychiatry, community mental health, and private practice. Along the way, I earned my MSW, became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and completed three years of post-graduate training in adult psychodynamic psychotherapy.

My work is psychodynamic, relational, and engaged. We can address the immediate concern while also understanding the patterns beneath it—especially in relationships, sex, self-worth, work, and the ways gay men learn to protect themselves.