I’ll probably be wearing an old t-shirt and jeans, I encourage expressive profanity, and I have more tattoos than the average therapist. You won’t find a flowery sales pitch about self-fulfillment and safe spaces but you will find honesty and authenticity. What you see is what you get. I hold master’s degrees in both marriage and family therapy and forensic psychology. I’m licensed by the state of Georgia as a marriage and family therapist and as a professional counselor. If you’re really bored, you can find out more about this stuff on the Professional Bio page.

I specialize in trauma and PTSD, substance abuse, and anger.

My work with trauma clients includes adult and adolescent survivors of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, both active duty and retired military personnel, and first responders. In cases involving complex trauma, I’ve often worked with dissociation, psychoses, and personality disorders.

I treat substance issues exactly as I treat trauma related issues. I am not a fan of the disease model of addiction because I believe it to be shortsighted and ultimately harmful to people struggling with those issues. In 25 years as a drug addict and alcoholic, and several years in this field, I have yet to meet someone with a drug or alcohol, “problem.” Every person I have known or treated for these issues has had drug or alcohol, “solutions.” Part of our job is to find out what the actual problem is. We don’t get there by talking about drugs or alcohol. That is a fundamental flaw with addiction treatment today.

While there are genetic factors that affect temperament, much of our behavior is predicated upon previous experience.  Like substance abuse, anger is frequently not the problem but rather an attempted solution. Understanding how anger has functioned throughout a person’s life is key to understanding how to reduce that anger. All human behavior makes sense. Our work is to figure out how.

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As with trauma and PTSD, I utilize EMDR as my primary approach to therapy related to substance use disorders. I also integrate exercise and diet, yoga, and meditation.

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