I value therapy that is wholly centered around the experiences of the people I have the pleasure to work with. While some therapists may feel like they’re running a skill drill, I aim to find the balance between personal process oriented therapy approached (such as having the time and space to press into the nuance of a situation) with maintaining an action oriented approach to therapy that focuses on identifying what needs to be done to see movement.

My primary models of therapy that I work from are Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, and Brainspotting, with some CBT and solution oriented therapy as needed.

Originally trained as an Oncology Social Worker I spent the first stretch of my career working with Bone Marrow Cancer patients and families in the hospital while they underwent intensive cancer treatment.

Since 2019 I have been working as a therapist in a variety of settings including community based group practices, integrative primary care, and, now, solo private practice.

Notable History

2017 | Masters of Social Work Completed

2019 | Fully Licensed Clinical Social Worker

2017-2022 | Moffitt Cancer Center Inpatient Social Worker | Tampa, FL

2019-Present | Independently Licensed Mental Health Therapist

2024 | Merging Rivers LLC is founded

Nuance Matters

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to therapy. Your goals, your life, your experiences stay central to all that we do.

Process with a Purpose

When doing deeper work or exploring various aspects of life or a situation, it’s important to keep in mind a why. Endless processing without a clear guidance on what we’re processing for can become aimless and unhelpful.

Life cannot be void of Challenge

Sadly, we cannot remove all aspects of challenge from life. Some therapies have a goal of full symptom resolution. While that sounds ideal in theory, real life doesn’t work that way and then people are left wondering what they did wrong when the challenge represents. Rather, a focus living well alongside our challenges is a stronger approach.

Confluence (noun): a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point

There was what was, and then there is what is. Life is known to hit us from time to time. Whether we call it “curve balls”, “when life give you lemons”, or we are “dealt a band hand”, we all know the experience of being faced with something that demands to be dealt with.

The image of two rivers joining together is one that is often marked by disruption, upheaval, and chaos at the point of junction. But, a little ways downstream we see what is a new river. Stronger, larger, and integrated. This integrated river represents the new life on the other side of the junction point, which itself is quite chaotic.

Merging Rivers is here for those transitional spaces between what was, and what is becoming.

Before meeting with a new therapist, you may wish to get a quick vibe check. Here are some things you may want to know about me:

• I’m a dorky dad - deeply authentic and don’t have a cool bone in my body.

• I really hate the medicalization of mental health - DSM, Insurance, rigid treatment plans, and calling normal human experiences disorders.

  • I believe a lot of our mental health “problems” are a result of our hyper individualistic, late-stage capitalism stage of American Culture and we are missing deeper connections to community and history.

• At the same time, I believe therapy should be accessible and efforts should be made to improve access where possible, even if that means playing the medicalization game.

• I like and enjoy the person of Jesus but am increasingly having a hard time identifying with evangelicalism as it was presented to me growing up. I more closely self-identify as an ex-vangelical christian and enjoy supporting people of all walks with various feelings towards church and faith (religious, deconstructing, ex-religious, non-faith identifying, and everything in between).