As lead clinician and trainer for ketamine therapy at Higher Ground, I work with clients who haven't found relief through traditional approaches. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy creates a unique window for healing, allowing clients to step outside rigid thought patterns and see themselves and their struggles from a new perspective.

This isn't recreational use. It's medicine-assisted therapy, carefully dosed and deeply intentional. We use ketamine to treat depression, anxiety, trauma, and existential distress when other treatments haven't worked.

Each session includes thorough preparation, guided support during the experience, and integration work afterward. The goal is lasting change, not just relief during the session, but insight and healing that carries forward.

Anxiety shows up differently for everyone, panic attacks, social anxiety, constant worry, avoidance that's taken over your life. I use evidence-based approaches like CBT, mindfulness, and exposure therapy to help you understand what's driving the anxiety and learn to relate to it differently.

This work isn't about eliminating anxiety entirely, it's about building the capacity to move through it without letting it dictate your choices. We work on identifying triggers, challenging unhelpful thought patterns, and gradually facing situations you've been avoiding.

The goal is freedom: not from discomfort, but from being controlled by fear.

I work with men who've spent years holding it together: succeeding, providing, staying composed... but feeling increasingly disconnected from themselves and their relationships. Whether you're dealing with anger that shows up when vulnerability should, workaholism that's replaced intimacy, or a sense that success hasn't brought the fulfillment you expected, this work creates space to explore what's really going on.

Men's therapy isn't about fixing you or teaching you to "open up" on command. It's about understanding your emotional wiring, examining the messages you've internalized about what it means to be a man, and building the capacity to show up authentically in your relationships and your life.

Clients describe the work as equal parts challenging and relieving. It's a chance to finally talk honestly about what you're feeling and what you want, without judgment or pressure to perform.

Depression isn't just sadness: it's also disconnection, numbness, exhaustion, and the weight of going through the motions without really feeling alive. I work with clients dealing with major depression, persistent low mood, and treatment-resistant depression using an integrative approach that combines CBT, behavioral activation, psychodynamic exploration, and sometimes ketamine therapy.

We work on understanding what's beneath the depression: the trauma, loss, disconnection, identity struggles—while also taking practical steps to rebuild engagement with life. This isn't about "thinking positive." It's about facing what's real, grieving what needs to be grieved, and gradually finding your way back to meaning and purpose.

For clients who haven't found relief through traditional approaches, ketamine-assisted therapy can offer a powerful shift in perspective and relief from entrenched patterns.

Some struggles aren't about symptoms—they're about meaning. I work with clients facing existential questions: Who am I? What's the point? What happens when success, achievement, or everything you thought you wanted doesn't feel like enough?

This work integrates Jungian depth psychology, contemplative practice, and existential therapy. We explore identity, purpose, spiritual emergence, and the archetypal forces shaping your inner world. Whether you're navigating a spiritual crisis, integrating psychedelic experiences, or simply asking deeper questions about your life, I create space for exploration without imposing answers.

The goal isn't to give you a belief system, it's to help you discover what feels true and meaningful for you.

Trauma doesn't always look like a single catastrophic event. Sometimes it's years of emotional neglect, instability, or living in environments where safety was never guaranteed. I work with clients dealing with complex trauma, PTSD, dissociation, and the lasting impacts of childhood adversity.

This work is about rebuilding safety in your body, in your relationships, in your sense of self. We use trauma-informed approaches, somatic awareness, and sometimes ketamine-assisted therapy to help you process what happened without being retraumatized.

The goal is integration. It's not simply forgetting or "getting over it," but reclaiming the parts of yourself that got lost or locked away in survival mode.