I have been studying and working in the field of psychology since 2002, beginning with my undergraduate and graduate training and continuing through more than a decade of professional counseling practice. My experience spans hospitals, counseling clinics, and residential treatment facilities, including serving as a counselor at a faith-based therapeutic boarding school for adolescents. I also worked at the largest hospital in Northern Indiana, where I helped run a substance use treatment center, providing care for individuals and families impacted by addiction. I served as an Assistant Director in a community mental health center, where I led a team of 14 counselors and coordinated treatment with five psychiatrists, several psychiatric practitioners, and several nurses. In that role, I worked to ensure integrated care for individuals and families facing complex emotional and relational challenges. These experiences gave me a broad perspective on the many ways people struggle — and the many paths toward healing.
At the same time, I was teaching graduate-level counseling for over six years at the Townsend Institute, equipping future Christian counselors. During that time, I also received direct supervision from Dr. John Townsend — best known for co-authoring Boundaries and more than 30 other books on growth, leadership, and relationships — as we co-led three-day intensives for incoming students. These intensives involved running 10–12 process groups, staffing additional groups, and engaging in real-time training. This experience not only deepened my own skills but also gave me the opportunity to pass on those insights to the next generation of counselors.
In my work with clients, I focus on the deeper issues that keep people from thriving — unfinished areas of growth that often appear as anxiety, depression, addiction, or relational conflict. Healing involves learning to build safe and lasting connections, set healthy boundaries, integrate both the good and painful parts of life, and step into maturity with confidence. Strengthening these areas provides the foundation for lasting change.
Counseling offers a safe place to practice these changes. My goal is to help people not only find relief from current struggles but also to develop the character, faith, and purpose needed to flourish in their relationships, their work, and their walk with God.
