There is a way back to you, and it is through safe, honest, and genuine relationship.
As a therapist, I show up humanly. Not as someone with all of the answers or a quick fix, but as a full person who has experienced their own stuckness, pains and joys. My main priority as a therapist is to strive to understand and to stay connected with you, even the parts of you that have never felt understood or worthy of connection.
I work relationally. I am as invested in what you bring into the therapy room — the content, the stories, the hardships you are eager to be less alone with — as I am in how it feels to be in connection together. The joy of therapy for me is about relating to each other authentically and, as much as possible, letting our guards down in a way that feels safe.
Clients have told me that they find my pace in session to be slow. Slowness, in my experience, is what helps bring emotion alive. I enjoy helping clients form deeper access to their emotional worlds, understand why certain emotions have felt unsafe to explore on their own, and exist more freely and openly in their relationships.
Many couples and individuals I work with are part of the LGBTQ+ community. As a gay man, I connect with clients on shared experiences related to belonging, identity formation, and religious upbringings. I also frequently work with men who are craving deeper connection to their emotions.
I went to CU Denver for my master’s degree in couple and family therapy and to Boston College for undergrad, where I studied sociology and theology. Aside from working, I love music, am a life-long swimmer and yoga practitioner, and enjoy being in nature with people I love when I get the opportunity. I am originally from Northern California and have lived in Colorado for the past five years.