My Clinical Experience

These opportunities have given me both a broad range of experience with a wide variety of psychological disorders and populations as well as an in-depth level of training regarding relationships, the impact of spirituality, and emotional suffering.

• Clinical Psychologist/Certified Psychoanalyst, Private Practice, Tampa, Florida.
• Clinical Psychologist, Life Connections Counseling Center, Tampa, FL
• Residency, Life Connections Counseling Center, Tampa, FL
• Internship, University of South Florida’s Counseling Center for Human Development,
  Tampa, FL
• Staff Therapist, Biola Counseling Center, La Mirada, CA
• Assessment Externship, Los Angeles County/University of Southern California, Ingleside Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
• Child Assessment and Psychotherapy, Rosita School, Garden Grove, CA
• Supervised Psychotherapist, Florida Counseling Foundation, Casselberry, FL
• Psychotherapist Trainee, Northland Counseling Center, Longwood, FL

Professional Associations

• APA (American Psychological Association)
• APA, Division 39 (Psychoanalysis)
• CAPS (Christian Association for Psychological Studies)
• Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society
• Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies

Previous Pastoral Experience

• Pastor, Lake Mary, FL
• Seminary Professor, Cincinnati, OH
• Associate Pastor, Cincinnati, OH
• Pastor, Danville, KY
• ​Pastor, Atlanta, GA

My Specialized Psychotherapy Experience with Individuals and Couples

• Relational issues (including conflict, communication difficulties, challenges from before the relationship began, financial challenges, previous relationships, family-of-origin relationships, in-laws/friend-related concerns, parenting issues, etc.)
• Mood-related concerns (depression, bipolar disorder, etc.)
• Life transitions (including job loss, grief, marital separation, divorce, etc.)
• Spiritual matters (doubt, guilt, shame, fear, wounding by spiritual leader, experience of God, etc.)
• Trauma (from childhood and/or adulthood, ongoing pain)
• Identity challenges, self-esteem
• ADHD and learning disabilities, especially the impact on relationships and self-esteem
• Anxiety in all its forms

My Specialized Assessment Experience

• Cognitive Assessment (learning disabilities, ADHD, giftedness, etc.)
• Personality Assessment
• Career Assessment