I am a long term Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation Practitioner who is certified to teach Mindfulness . Now as a TeleHealth Therapist at Lakewood Child and Family Counseling in Tacoma WA, I bring this experience to our sessions as a foundation to work with my clients. I have experience working in community mental health as well as a liaison with the Youth Services Department for a Police Agency in California before I moved to Washington. I believe in being be a ‘good human first, Therapist second’. I feel that without being a ‘good human’, you cannot become a ‘good Therapist’. I work to help you understand the ‘why’ something is what it is, before looking into solutions. I bring honesty, warmth, and curiosity to our sessions. Cultural Sensitivity, Spirituality, Non-Violence, and working with marginalized communities are of great importance to me as well.

Starting Therapy can be hard. It takes courage to start to work on what you know you need too, and even more to ask someone for help. I have a deep a reverence for the bravery needed to reach out. I hope my clients find me to be compassionate, empathetic, accepting and a truly genuine, caring person. I believe it is an honor to walk with someone on their journey, to help them shine their light into their darkest places, and to work on the fear and sadness that surface as a result. Through working at Lakewood Child and Family Counseling in Tacoma WA, I have recently taken a number of EFT (emotional focused therapy) and EFFT (emotional focused family therapy) to help facilitate my clients exploring their traumas. I work with clients who are working through their anxiety and depression, helping them confront the the traumas of their past. I work with a lot of clients who are going through major life transitions, such as the loss of a loved one, change in a long term relationship, or a change in a career. Please reach out to me if you are interested in starting with me.

Finding the help you need can be scary. Let me help you be brave. I see my role as a TeleHealth Therapist at Lakewood Child and Family Counseling to provide non-judgmental, unconditional support to my clients. Knowing that most people do not have this in their life, and as someone who has their own therapist, I know how important this can be to someone. I have experience working with children, adolescents, and adults with various emotional, social, and mental health disorders including dual diagnoses. I am passionate about helping others establish balance in their lives, finding a greater sense of self-identity, reestablishing who you are, helping you heal your trauma wounds, and guiding you in improving your interpersonal relationships. I am dedicated to helping adolescents and young adults with their personal growth so their families can grow stronger together.

Starting Therapy can be hard, and picking a Therapist can be one of the more difficult parts of starting. Let me help you. I lean into my life experiences and my depth of training to make a safe, warm, welcoming space for my clients to do their work with me at their side. I use my experience as a Father, a Husband, a Correctional Counselor, and a Veteran every day with my clients. I have been working with Lakewood Child and Family Counseling for almost a decade now and I consider myself specialized in working with clients with severe anxiety. In recent years, I have branched out to learn some other Modalities such as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) to help my clients process their past traumas. I treat people with unconditional positive regard because I know that most people have never gotten that in their lives. I am passionate about working with Veterans and their families, especially when it comes to working with them as a parent-coach. I use humor when it is appropriate, but I also will call it how it is and hold my clients accountable to themselves, their families, and their community.

As a long term TeleHealth Therapist at Lakewood Child and Family Counseling I am dedicated to your growth. I am a compassionate and empathetic Therapist committed to helping my Clients achieve the positive results they are seeking. I am skilled at utilizing evidence-based techniques in working with you, using a multitude of different Therapy Modalities to bring to our sessions, including CBT, EFT, and Family Systems. I work mainly with Clients who are having difficulty with family-of-origin issues, blended family issues, those experiencing depression and anxiety, clients with abandonment issues, and LGBTIQA+.