Know This

When I first got into this field , I used to think that people cared about credentials, degrees, fancy trainings, and the letters behind my name. 

And sure, that still matters. 

But what you really want to know is simple: Can I actually help you? 

Because at the end of the day, nobody cares about the diagnosis, the treatment plan, or the clinical jargon if you’re still waking up feeling the same.

 If you’re still triggered, shut down, anxious, or numb, none of that paper means anything. 

So to answer that question right out of the gate, yes, I can help. As a licensed professional counselor, I’m damn good at my job, and I’m invested in my clients. 

I’m not here just to take your money. I want you to get what you came for, and I do that with my whole heart. 

My focus is on trauma healing, and I don’t bullshit around it.

For the last 14 years, my work as a licensed professional counselor has taken me to places most people would rather avoid. Inside prisons and jails, I’ve worked with individuals navigating severe psychiatric disorders. In forensic interview rooms, I’ve listened to the hardest details of children’s trauma. 

On the witness stand, I’ve served as an expert in cases of child sexual abuse, witnessing firsthand how trauma rewires people’s lives and how often the justice survivors deserve never comes due to systems that were never designed to protect them.

But this isn’t just a profession for me. I understand what it’s like to grow up in a high-control religious environment, to navigate divorce and the sting of betrayal, and to endure family dysfunction, poverty, and my own brushes with trauma.

Those chapters gave me grit and tenderness. They taught me how to sit with the mess of being human without flinching. 

For a long time, I thought healing had limits; that maybe I’d just have to live around the ache. However, it has blown my mind to learn how much we can actually repair when the body feels safe enough to stop bracing for the next hit. This shift changed everything for me and is now the heartbeat of the trauma healing work I do.

After all that, you should probably know, I’m not all seriousness and trauma talk. 

Yes, I do this work with my whole heart, but I also believe that trauma healing can hold humor, joy, and humanity. 

You’ll get real reactions, real feelings, real expressions. 

I’m not the slow blinking, white-man stoic therapist with a pen and pad writing every word you say. I’m right there with you. 

Curious, engaged, present. 

We’ll talk about what healing and safety actually feel like in your body, not in a foggy, abstract, therapist-speak kind of way, but in a real, everyday way that makes sense.