Hi there! I am excited for the opportunity to help you. I’ve been actively working in the social work and mental heath fields since graduating college in 2006, and have found fulfillment in using numerous therapeutic modalities to serve a wide range of ages and demographics.

Many of my clients find this challenging season an excellent time to focus within, on family, and couples work. My role as a therapist is strongly influenced by my experience as a husband and father. My approach is practical, sincere, strength-based and gentle, but challenging. With 18+ years experience, I provide therapy for adults, couples, teens and families. I excel in work with mood disorders, relationships, and trauma resiliency. I believe therapy includes both psychological and spiritual wholeness, which I strive to support in those from all walks of life.

Telehealth available during these challenging times. Congratulations on taking the first step. We offer individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, equine therapy, alternative healing techniques and coaching to help you break through barriers and create lasting change in your life. Trauma and loss happen in our lives, but these events shouldn't define us or the amazing talents we have to share with this world.

Born and raised in the Flathead Valley I have an informal practice focusing on real world solutions and living the life you have always wanted. The biggest predictor of positive outcomes is the strength of the relationship between therapist and client, so I encourage you to get started today by giving me a call and scheduling a free 30 minute consultation. I hold licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Mental Health Professional with experience in both adult/adolescent therapy and crisis intervention.

I believe that therapy is the client's personal journey where insight is created and processed to help enhance the client's life. My role as a therapist, is to provide unconditional regard, support, and another perspective as the client moves through their journey. I enjoy the variety of therapy that I can provide to adults, adolescents, and children through individual, family, and couples counseling.

We all face challenges, uncertainties and various struggles in life. Taking the steps to make changes at times are not always easy. I invite you to therapy if you are struggling with relationship issues, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, or just feeling stuck in everyday life. I will provide you with a safe and private space where you can focus just on yourself and with tools to help you build a healthier relationship with yourself and with others around you.

Working in therapy can be a powerful tool that facilitates perspective, personal insight, healing, and strength. If you are focused on healing and/or seeking personal growth then let's work together. You may be feeling stuck or going through a transition in life in which you need some support and/or guidance. Many of us have a hard time asking for help. Fear, anxiety, shame or needing to be self-sufficient are some feelings that can limit us from recognizing when we need or want support. Sometimes taking the first step can be the most difficult.

My practice is client-centered, honest, and empathetic to my client's concerns. Trust is the major factor that enables clients to talk about what is at the heart of their problems, and we spend the time necessary to develop that trust. I view the therapeutic relationship as collaboration with my client on a unique journey towards self-enhancement, wellness, and goal attainment. I want to help empower you to overcome your personal obstacles with a compassionate and respectful approach in a safe place where you can share and build self-awareness as we work together to change.

Childhood trauma often times comes with a feeling of deep shame, which turns into a core belief that you are bad, undeserving and unworthy of anything good. Shame comes from an old German word meaning “to cover.” You hide your feelings, keeping them secret. Because—if they really knew who you were, they couldn’t love you. You spend your life trying so hard to cover up the bad so no one will see. In doing this you lose your authenticity, your truth, your dreams. You become someone you are not. You lose your light. Working through trauma is hard, it takes courage, dedication and patience, but it is worth it. You are worth it.

Are you lacking motivation, feeling sluggish or finding yourself consistently worried? Have you noticed tension in your relationships with family and colleagues, but not sure how to address it? Are you navigating a recent life change? As your therapist, I strive to help you identify and meet your goals, by recognizing and overcoming the barriers that prevent your success. I believe people do their very best and sometimes need help identifying old patterns in order to create new behaviors.

I specialize in helping adolescents and adults in finding their own inner purpose, strength, and wisdom. Often, this requires peeling back the layers of old habits, wounds, and ways of being in the world that are resulting in distress, anxiety, depression, and feelings of dissatisfaction. By helping to heal the old wounds, there is more space to experience joy and contentment while also discovering what matters the most to you.

If you're here reading this, let me put you at ease, you've asked yourself some very important questions and are now taking the first steps. Do you struggle with excess anxiety and can't sleep? Do you feel depressed, frustrated with behavioral concerns, or overwhelmed with stress or grief that seems to have taken control? If so then call or email me today and together we can work towards achieving the goals and functioning in life you are desiring. I work collaboratively to assist individuals, families, and couples with building healthier relationships, increasing confidence, and developing coping strategies to regulate emotions.

Affective Neurosciences offers nonpharmaceutical options for the treatment of brain based problems in living utilizing Neurofeedback. Neurofeedback training is a form of biofeedback that focuses on brainwaves and addresses a spectrum of brain dysregulation disorders including PTSD, depression, anxiety, attention issues and developmental trauma disorders. We offer treatment protocols for children and adults with attention disorders and autism spectrum disorders, as well as depression, trauma, anxiety, sleep disturbances, addictive disorders, pain control, loss of function associated with disease and normal aging, and head injuries. Many clients also experience solutions for pain management, migraines, addictive habits and other health behavioral issues.

I believe individuals are inherently motivated towards health and well-being.  When we work from a place of compassion, curiosity and vulnerability, I believe meaningful, lasting change is possible. My clinical experience working with adults and teens includes addressing anxiety, depression, suicidal/crisis intervention, self-harm, grief, identity issues, eating disorders, substance use, peer relationship conflict, family conflict and trauma.

I work with children, teens and adults across the lifespan providing individual, couples and family therapy, psychological assessment and consultation. My overall mission is to help clients to 1) understand, articulate, and negotiate their particular challenges such that they can cope and overcome; and 2) identify and achieve their personal goals and live congruently with their values and aspirations. I have worked in private, school and medical settings in urban and rural parts of the country including Los Angeles, Chicago, Arizona and Indiana. I am happy to offer services in my new adopted home, Northwest Montana.

My goal is simply to help people overcome life's challenges. My philosophy on counseling is strength and solution-based, focusing on the competency and courage of people verses their deficits. My methods of intervention are based in family systems theory as well as cognitive behavioral theory. That is I believe that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are all connected and in altering one we can alter the other two. I also focus my case conceptualization and interventions on the relationships and systems encompassing each individual.

Are you waking up at night worrying about problems in your life or what is going on in the world? Do you feel that you "are not good enough" or "lovable enough"? Everyone has concerns in their life and learning to deal with them in a healthy way eliminates a need to turn to behaviors that cause more problems. Working with an empathetic and compassionate person helps you take down the barriers and look at the possibilities in life. I have learned, on a personal level, that I can change old unhealthy behaviors for new healthy ones.

Before moving to Montana in 2003 and Oregon in 2020, I was at Stanford University Medical Center, University of New Mexico Medical School, and University of Oregon where I acquired advanced clinical experiences under the direct supervision of science-practitioners Richard E. Zinbarg, PhD; Anne D. Simons, PhD; Thomas J. Dishion, PhD; and Robert L. Weiss, PhD — known experts in the fields of anxiety and mood disorders, behavioral disorders, and couples/family therapy. I began seeing clients in 1996 and continue to see Montanans throughout the Flathead Valley and beyond via telehealth.

I am a Certified Equine Assisted Therapist and work with children and adults, individuals, couples and families. I work with clients that have struggles with life transitions or just would like to learn healthier ways of thinking and being. Horses are the bridge to making changes quickly and actually assist in rewiring the brain for healthy interactions!

I have worked for three decades with individuals seeking to overcome a wide variety of issues related to addiction, depression, anxiety, establishing a sense of identity and purpose that feels good to them, forming healthy habits, achieving intimacy and maintaining relationships, attaining life goals, and overcoming many forms of trauma. I have worked with adolescents, adults, families, couples, combat veterans, professional athletes, medical professionals, as well as adolescents and adults with diverse ethnic, indigenous, sexual, gender, and cultural identities. It is such an honor to assist in the discovery of personal truths.