Most of my clients are managing competently. That's the problem.

Nothing has collapsed. From the outside it looks like it's working. But holding it together has started to cost more than it used to, and there is no good moment in your week to say so out loud.

I work with attorneys, physicians, federal and cleared professionals, founders, senior staff, police and corrections officers. People whose judgment other people rely on, and who have learned that admitting to strain carries a price.

I have directed mental health services inside a jail and consulted in prisons.

I lead with that because it answers the question most people are actually weighing when they look at a therapist's website, which is whether I am going to be surprised by what they tell me.

I'm not going to be surprised. I have spent my career in the places where people are at their worst, and it has left me with two things that matter for you. I am very hard to alarm. And I know the difference between a normal reaction to an abnormal job and something that genuinely needs clinical attention — which means I won't pathologise you, and I won't miss it if something is actually wrong.

Direct, and on your schedule.

I'm not going to reflect your feelings back at you for fifty minutes. I'll tell you what I'm seeing, I'll push when it's useful, and I'll say so plainly if I think you're wrong about something.

The work draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and DBT skills, aimed at the things that actually change your week — emotional regulation under pressure, clearer decisions, and coping that doesn't quietly cost you more later.

Sessions are fifty minutes, weekly to begin with. In person in the DC region, or online anywhere in DC, Maryland or Virginia — which matters more than it sounds in a region where people live in one jurisdiction and work in another.

Burnout and occupational stress

Trauma and PTSD, including occupational exposure

Anxiety under sustained pressure

Depression

Law enforcement, corrections and first responders

Men who have not done this before

Professionals navigating identity, race and institutional pressure

Who this practice is for:

I work with Black and Latino professionals carrying something they have not had a place to put down.

Some of that is work: being the only person in the room, managing high-scrutiny roles where visible strain has a cost, and absorbing other people's emergencies for a living. Some of it is faith — people raised in the church who no longer hold it, or who are carrying harm that came through one. Leaving a Black church is not only a change of belief; it is often a loss of family, community and the one institution that reliably held you. I do not treat that leaving as the problem to be fixed.

I work with LGBTQ+ adults, including people whose families and congregations have not held them. I am affirming, and that is not a disclaimer at the bottom of a page.

If you have been looking for someone who does not need any of this explained from the beginning, that is most of what I do.

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