I specialize in working with men who feel emotionally disconnected, shut down, isolated, or stuck in patterns of avoidance that are impacting their relationships, identity, and overall sense of meaning. Many of the people I work with appear high functioning on the outside, but internally feel numb, directionless, disconnected from themselves, or unable to fully access closeness with others. Often, they’ve spent years carrying shame, loneliness, pressure, or emotional pain without knowing how to talk about it.

This can look like:

• Feeling emotionally numb, disconnected, or “checked out”

• Struggling to express emotions or communicate needs in relationships

• Pulling away when relationships become emotionally vulnerable or intimate

• Feeling alone despite having relationships, friendships, or external success

• Difficulty experiencing emotional or physical intimacy

• Overthinking life, purpose, identity, or meaning without feeling grounded

• Chronic shame, self-criticism, or feelings of inadequacy

• Avoiding conflict, vulnerability, or emotional dependence on others

• Feeling pressure to always appear strong, capable, or self-sufficient

• Using work, distractions, gaming, substances, or isolation to avoid emotional pain

• Wanting deeper connection while simultaneously fearing closeness

I provide grounded, relational, and collaborative therapy that helps clients better understand the emotional and existential patterns keeping them stuck while building greater self-awareness, emotional connection, and authenticity. My approach integrates existential, Gestalt, attachment-based, mindfulness, and trauma-informed perspectives to help clients explore both the practical and deeper emotional layers of their experiences.

Before becoming a therapist, I taught research and statistics, which still shows up in my love of pattern-finding, whether in data or in the ways people make sense of their lives. Fun fact: I am a devoted Dungeons & Dragons world-builder who believes storytelling is one of our oldest forms of healing.