Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), State of Colorado

M.A. in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology

Certificate of Completion from ReStory™ Institute Level

B.A. in Biblical Studies from Moody Bible Institute

Certified in Mental Health First Aid USA

I believe that our greatest joys and our deepest wounds are experienced because of and within relationships. Because we are bound to relationships and wired for intimacy, we are also bound to experience loss, harm, beauty, wholeness, and everything in between. Unfortunately, the valleys of despair can often feel far more like home to us than the mountain peaks of glory. My desire, therefore, is to join others in their valleys and provide hope for the journey towards something new and beautiful.

Since relationships are complex and full of tension, I believe my work with another person should highlight this reality. Thus, I believe we heal most when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable enough to enter the places we’ve been storing behind lock and key. We all need someone to witness and grieve our suffering with us, to hold what was never meant to be held alone, and to imagine something better.

My training is in interpersonal psychotherapy and narrative/story work. Together we will tend to the narratives and themes of your heart more so than the outward behaviors of your experience. If we don’t tend to what has been wounded and forgotten, behavioral management will only get you so far. We will explore with curiosity the key players of your story and the unconscious narratives that have structured how you perceive the world and those within it.

My story has been shaped the most by the characters set within it. Some have played roles of profound harm and wounding, while others have played roles of restorative healing. Whether it be the former or the latter, all have left their mark. 

I spent the first 18 years of my life as a native to Fort Collins and the Rocky Mountains. I was the youngest of three brothers, but the neighborhood “club” made me more like the youngest of 12. You can imagine the growing up I had to do to keep up with the pack. In many ways, growing up fast was a blessing, but in others, it was a burden. I quickly learned that outward acts of excellence were great ways to mask inward realms of turmoil and heartache. I became accustomed to curving my pain and wounding inwards upon myself, all the while feeling silenced in my ability to put words to my experience. I am no stranger to feeling trapped within the walls of a hollow shell.

I went on to spend the next four years of my life pursuing a Bachelor’s in Biblical Studies from Moody Bible Institute. In those four years I experienced both my highest mountaintops and my deepest valleys. At Moody, I struggled immensely with issues of identity, toxic relationships, and depression. But it was also there that I was privileged to participate in life-changing opportunities such as spending an entire year abroad in Israel and Greece, the former from which I met my wife, Lindsey. 

After graduating, my wife and I got married and we attempted to settle down in Denver as we navigated being newlyweds. God had other plans. In a major step of faith, within 8 months we moved to Seattle for me to begin my graduate studies in counseling as well as to step into the role of Houseparents for teenage girls in crisis. For 3.5 years, we had the immense privilege, struggle, and calling to live with, parent, coach, teach, serve, and love over 20 teenage girls coming from extremely difficult circumstances. Many of them became family, all of them sowed their beauty in us. It was also in our first year in Seattle that we had our first kid, Selah.