Hey, I’m Andrew.
I help men and fathers navigate vulnerability and shame, fear of failure, emotional suppression, anger, and the invisible weight of holding it together. I also work with couples caught in growing distance, repeated fights, or resentment gone unspoken, and with individuals carrying the weight of a difficult past into how they relate to themselves and others today.
My approach draws from Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodynamic work, and CBT. I believe our stuck patterns – the overthinking, shame, shutting down, fear, anger – usually developed early to protect us, even when they no longer serve us. Rather than fighting these parts of ourselves, I encourage clients to lean IN to understand them with curiosity and compassion, so they don’t have to run the show anymore. I also believe the body is critical to connecting with ourselves through somatic awareness and daily self-care practices.
I’ve had a foundation of faith my whole life, but it became the center of my life, not just a part of it, after my wife and I moved to LA in 2022. I believe God has used the trials of my 20’s and 30’s to shape me into a steadier husband and father, and into someone who can be a sturdy support for other people. I’ve always been drawn to mentoring and coaching, and genuinely curious about people’s stories: what’s made them who they are, and what it would take to help them work through what’s stuck. I believe God often sends us help in the form of people, and I’ve been given that kind of help more than once in my own life. I’d love to be a small part of that in yours. In session, I integrate faith when a client wants that, through prayer, scripture, or simply naming where God fits into the story we’re working through, and I meet people wherever they are in their own faith.
I’m a husband, father, and lifelong athlete who believes healing happens both in the therapy room and in daily life. My purpose in this work is simple: I want to help people stop surviving their life and start living it. Not to become someone new, but to finally feel like themselves again.
