About Me
I came to this work through my own healing journey and a deep curiosity about people. I’ve spent much of my life exploring effective ways to heal, grow, and make sense of suffering.
Along the way, I’ve been fortunate to learn from gifted healers, teachers, partners, and friends, and to engage with a range of therapeutic, contemplative, and somatic approaches. Over time, I’ve developed a clearer understanding of what supports genuine healing and transformation.
I’ve come to see many of my own struggles as doorways to compassion, wisdom, and purpose. It is meaningful to accompany others in their healing process, and supporting people in this work continues to deepen my faith in our capacity to heal and grow.
Clinical Experience
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience as a therapist, facilitator, and community-based practitioner. I am a queer child of immigrants and am deeply committed to serving people from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds.
I began my career as an intensive family therapist, working with low-income youth and families in the Metro-Boston area. Since then, my work has spanned community mental health, therapeutic schools, and emergency psychiatric services.
In 2013, I joined The Meeting Point Collaborative, a collective of social-justice–oriented mental health and body-based practitioners serving underserved communities. Over time, my work expanded to include Ecotherapy, integrating my long-standing connection to nature with clinical practice.
My work has consistently centered culturally responsive care for LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and low-income communities. I am also committed to supporting men in exploring and transforming patterns of masculinity and expanding emotional range, connection, and responsibility.
My Clinical Approach
My approach is relational, active, and collaborative. I believe a trusting, engaged therapeutic relationship is the foundation for meaningful change, and I pay close attention to the quality of our connection throughout our work together.
I work integratively, drawing from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, somatic-focused therapy, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. I have also been deeply influenced by Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), an attachment-based approach that emphasizes emotional healing, the transformation of suffering, and the importance of not facing difficult experiences alone.
Together, these approaches support the integration of mind and body in the healing process. I understand the body as a primary source of intelligence and experience—holding vitality and wisdom, as well as the imprint of pain and trauma. My work helps clients develop a deeper, more embodied awareness of their inner world.
I currently provide Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAP) for depression, anxiety, and the processing of trauma and entrenched patterns. KAP is a holistic, psychedelic-assisted modality that pairs ketamine treatment with dedicated psychotherapy sessions for more deeper therapy, more frequent breakthroughs and better clinical outcomes.
I approach therapy with deep respect for each person’s individuality and lived experience. While patterns and stories can shape and sometimes limit what feels possible, they can also be understood and reshaped in ways that support growth and change.
At the core of my work is a belief in people’s capacity to heal. My role is to help you reconnect with your clarity, agency, and inner resources so that what has been protected or constrained can begin to move and transform.
““If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
Training and Education
Psychedelic & Integrative Psychotherapy Training
MDMA-Assisted Therapy trained by MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: Theory, Methodology, Integration - Fluence
Advanced Clinical Training
Level II AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy)
Level I Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Certified Somatic Focusing Therapist
Mindfulness and Body-Based Training
Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)instructor.
Iyengar Yoga 200 hour certified teacher.
Education
Master’s in Social Work, Simmon’s University 2007.
B.A. in Social Thought & Political Economy & African-American History at UMASS Amherst 2001.
“We are organized to be better than fine. Flourishing is in our DNA”
I’m also a father of two boys, and much of my learning about presence, patience, and relationship continues through parenting. Outside of my clinical work, I spend time in nature, running, and playing music as ways of staying connected to my body and creativity.