My journey to counseling didn’t start in a classroom. It started in a factory—after I’d been kicked out of college, newly married, and deeply lost. My wife and I hit rock bottom within the first year of marriage, but it was during that crisis that we encountered the redeeming love of Jesus and were born again.

For the next 13 years, I worked in manufacturing—making wheels, plastic bags, roofing, and decking—while growing in faith and learning how God transforms broken things. I later worked in insurance, law enforcement, and juvenile detention before I fully stepped into the calling that had been stirring in me for years.

I became a social worker to one day run a children's home, but God redirected that calling. After getting my bachelor's in Social Work from Pitt State, and then my master's from Western New Mexico University, I spent years serving teens with trauma, addiction, and broken family systems. I trained in EMDR, CBT, ART, and DBT along the way—but more than anything, I’ve learned to listen, to pray, and to hold space for people’s stories.

In 2019, I became independently licensed and opened my private practice. I’ve continued to serve my community through CHCSEK while expanding my full-time Christian counseling work, now seeing clients Tuesday through Friday in-person and virtually.