Exploring the Stories That Shape Us
Therapy, writing, and research at the intersection of narrative, formation, spirituality, and mental health.
We live by scripts, some we wrote ourselves, and some written for us by family, trauma, faith, ambition, and loss. Across therapy, research, and writing, my work returns to one central concern: how people become who they are, and how they begin to live differently when the old story no longer holds.
My work moves between three spaces: the therapy room, the research desk, and the essay. In each, I am interested in the same terrain: anxiety beneath competence, wounds beneath achievement, faith as both refuge and risk, and the difficult work of becoming whole.
We Are Formed by the Stories We Live
My work moves between writing, research, and clinical practice. Across each, I am interested in the stories people inherit, the pain they learn to carry, and the deeper work of becoming whole.
Areas of Work
Writing
Essays on therapy, faith, doubt, meaning, virtue, anxiety, responsibility, and the stories and practices that form a life.
Research
Doctoral work on spiritual bypass, religious language, avoidance, mental health, formation, and the integration of psychological and theological understanding.
Clinical Work
I see individuals and couples as a doctoral student therapist at the Nashville Center for Trauma and Psychotherapy under clinical supervision.
Featured Writing
Essays and reflections on therapy, faith, meaning, anxiety, achievement, and the stories that shape a life.
Doctoral Research:
When Faith Becomes a Way Around Pain Rather Than Through It
My doctoral research focuses on spiritual bypass: the use of spiritual language, practices, or beliefs to avoid psychological pain, relational repair, grief, trauma, or responsibility.
I am especially interested in helping clinicians, clergy, and lay leaders recognize when spiritual resources are supporting wholeness and when they are quietly reinforcing avoidance.
Clinical Work
I currently see clients as a doctoral student therapist at the Nashville Center for Trauma and Psychotherapy under clinical supervision.
My clinical interests include anxiety, trauma, couples work, religious trauma, spiritual bypass, and high-achievement lives.
For therapy inquiries, scheduling, fees, availability, or insurance/payment questions, please contact the Nashville Center for Trauma and Psychotherapy directly.
Clinical Interests
Individuals and couples
Men’s work and emotional constriction
Trauma-informed care
Faith, meaning, and identity
Anxiety, responsibility, and burnout
Spiritual bypass and religious trauma