I'm a Georgia native, though I have also lived in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia. At the age of 20, I began experiencing debilitating bouts of anxiety and panic. The resulting decline in my ability to function led in turn to a deep depression, for which I finally sought help. It was this experience that started my lifelong search for the answers to human suffering.

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Throughout my thirties, I trained to be an Episcopal priest, a pursuit that  ironically led me to leave Christianity altogether. This presented many personal crises, some of which I resolved through my studies of Zen Buddhism and its tenets of mindfulness and impermanence. I now identify as an atheist and a secular humanist. I make a point of advertising this because many of my clients have experienced mistreatment at the hands of organized religion and have had trouble finding a purely secular counselor. 

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I hold two master's degrees: a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Master of Arts in Religious Studies. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Georgia, a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, and am trained in EMDR. The thinkers who have had the greatest impact on my work as a therapist are Carl Rogers, John Bowlby, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Bessel van der Kolk.