​My psychotherapy is rooted in an older, quieter tradition of clinical practice—one that sees healing not as the management of symptoms but as the recovery of meaning, in its respect for what endures: responsibility, moral order, self-restraint, and the human capacity to choose wellness even under suffering.

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Where much of modern therapy treats discomfort as a malfunction to be alleviated, I see it as a message to be interpreted. Anxiety, loneliness, guilt, and grief are not pathologies to be erased but invitations to deeper understanding. I view emotional pain as part of what it means to be conscious and free. My role is not to reprogram thought patterns or prescribe new affirmations, but to help patients face the questions their pain is asking of them. What am I responsible for? What have I avoided? What have I lost faith in?

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This therapeutic resists the cultural drift toward quick solutions and limitless self-reinvention. It assumes there are constraints—moral, relational, and biological—that define and dignify human life. To live well is not to transcend those limits but to live authentically within them. Healing, then, comes less from novelty than from re-connection—to family, to community, to purpose, and ultimately to truth. The spirit of my work lies in this conviction: that wisdom often resides in what we have forgotten rather than in what we have yet to discover.

 

I have been providing psychotherapy since 1998. I earned a master's degree in Family Sociology and a doctorate in Counseling Psychology. I'm also a tenured Psychology Professor at St. Petersburg College. I'm the author of several books, both fiction and nonfiction.​