Evidence-based, collaborative, unhurried.
Therapy with me is structured but not mechanical. We work together, at a pace that respects both what you came in with and what surfaces once we start.
I practice two distinct evidence-based approaches: Beckian Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) combined with Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT). I do not offer hybrid or combination therapy. We agree on one approach at a time based on what the problem actually calls for, and we deliver it the way its developers intended, so we can measure whether it's working and change course if it isn't.
In practice, we spend the first session or two getting a careful picture of what's going on. Then we agree on a focus. Sessions are 50 minutes, usually weekly at first. You should feel, within the first few sessions, that we're actually working on something, not just rehearsing the problem.
Why I do this.
I spent fifteen years in a high-pressure corporate environment. I liked the money. I didn't like the existential dread of feeling stuck and wanting out. I spent the next decade figuring out how I might have come unstuck sooner.
What I learned: I needed space, some reflective humour, and someone I could sit with and be honest. That's the room I try to offer now.
- Session length50 minutes
- Initial cadenceWeekly
- FormatTelehealth or in-person (Pittsburgh, from summer 2026)
- LicensurePA, TX, CA
- InsuranceOut-of-network; superbills provided
Two distinct approaches.
Beckian CBT combined with REBT
A specific, published integration of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Beckian tradition with Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, following the framework in Cognitive Behavioural Counselling in Action (Trower, Casey, and Dryden, Sage) and the source work of Beck and Ellis. Useful for anxiety, panic, OCD, PTSD, perfectionism, and the particular kind of self-criticism that fuels burnout.
We identify the beliefs and behaviors keeping the problem in place, and we build alternatives. In session and in your life between sessions. Includes rational emotive imagery, behavioral experiments, and imagery rescripting for traumatic memories.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
A structured, time-limited approach that locates distress in four interpersonal problem areas: grief, role transitions, interpersonal disputes, and interpersonal deficits. Following Weissman, Markowitz, and Klerman.
Particularly strong for depression, reintegration after deployment or career change, and relational strain that's quietly driving everything else. An adaptation of IPT for PTSD offers a gentler alternative to exposure-based trauma therapies for clients for whom detailed re-telling of traumatic events would be a barrier.
What I help with.
Anxiety and panic
Generalized worry, social anxiety, health anxiety, panic attacks, and the steady low-grade dread that hums under a high-stakes job.
Depression and mood
Persistent low mood, loss of meaning, rumination, and the kind of flatness that's harder to name than to live with.
PTSD and complex trauma
Combat-related PTSD, operational trauma for first responders, childhood or relational trauma, and the long aftermath of being somewhere you shouldn't have had to be.
Professional burnout
Exhaustion, cynicism, lost sense of efficacy. Often tangled up with identity, values, and relationships, which is where IPT can be especially useful.
Moral injury & the weight of duty
The particular wound that comes from doing, failing to prevent, or witnessing acts that violate your moral code. Common in combat, policing, and emergency medicine. It is not the same as PTSD, and it deserves its own careful conversation.
Life transitions
Reintegrating after deployment, leaving a career that defined you, becoming a parent, becoming a caregiver, losing someone important, or simply realising you've outgrown the shape of your life.
What to expect from our first session.
We'll spend 50 minutes getting oriented. You'll tell me what's bringing you in and what you're hoping might be different. I'll ask some careful questions about your history, your current context, and anything specific you'd like me to know. By the end, you should have a clearer sense of what we'd focus on, whether I'm the right fit, and what a reasonable first stretch of work might look like. No pressure to continue. You get to decide.