I did not become a therapist because I always knew this was the plan. I became a therapist because therapy helped me at a time when I did not expect it to. As a teenager, I went through a tragic event that left me questioning my place in the world, my worth, and how to make sense of what had happened around me. I was pushed into therapy at that point and did not think it was going to do much. It ended up helping more than I understood at the time. Looking back, that experience stayed with me because it showed me that when something life-changing happens, people do not always realize how deeply it is affecting them until much later. Sometimes the right help can change more than you know in the moment.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent years in people-facing jobs. I worked in sales, in guitar shops, and on the catastrophe team at Allstate, where I was talking with people after floods, fires, and other moments when life had gone sideways. Looking back, there is a pretty clear pattern there. I have always been drawn to people, especially when something big is happening and they are trying to make sense of it. At a certain point, I knew I wanted to do work that felt more real, more personal, and more meaningful than what I had been doing before. So I went back to school, kept going, and eventually found my way here.

As a therapist, I try to be the guy you feel comfortable talking to. I am not here to talk in circles, act above you, or pretend I have your life figured out better than you do. I think therapy works best when it feels like two people sitting down and actually trying to figure something out together. I ask questions, I listen closely, and I pay attention to the things that seem small but usually are not. A lot of the time, people say something out loud and realize it means more than they thought it did. That matters to me. Sometimes it really does help just to say it out loud. And if something is not working with me, I want you to tell me. I do not want to be the therapist who gives you a bad impression of therapy. Fit matters.

I tend to connect especially well with adults from their late teens through midlife, especially people who are creative, driven, or trying to hold a lot together while something underneath still feels off. That includes musicians, artists, athletes, professionals, and people who are ambitious but feel stuck. I work a lot with anxiety, ADHD, depression, grief, career stress, relationship issues, and the effects of difficult life events that still seem to echo years later. I also connect with people who are trying to understand why they keep reacting so strongly, why the same pattern keeps repeating, or why something that looks manageable from the outside does not feel manageable in real life.

A few parts of my own life shape that in a real way. I know what it is like to go through something overwhelming when you are young and not have the language for it yet. I know what it is like to feel misunderstood and to carry things you could not fully explain at the time. I also know what it is like to build a relationship across cultures. My wife is from Brazil, and our relationship included years of long distance, immigration stress, and learning how two people from different backgrounds try to build one life together. I am still learning Portuguese, still learning in general, and that experience has made me especially aware of how culture, family, identity, and expectations show up in both individual therapy and relationships.

Music has always been a meaningful part of my life, and that is part of why I connect so naturally with creative people. I understand that for a lot of artists, the work is not just a hobby. It is identity, purpose, and sometimes the clearest way they know how to express what is going on inside. I also understand how hard it can be when the thing you care most about does not fit neatly into the rest of your life. My style is influenced by CBT, ACT, mindfulness, person-centered therapy, and existential therapy, but what matters most is how it feels to sit across from me. I want therapy to feel human, direct, and grounded. I am not here to overwhelm you with jargon or make things harder than they need to be. I want to help you get clear on what is going on, what you want to change, and what getting better would actually look like for you. If that sounds like the kind of therapy you are looking for, I would be glad to talk. And if I am your guy, we can get to work.