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Your needs are as unique as your service has been. You have trained, conditioned, and operated in environments that demanded sustained intensity, rapid adaptation, and moral clarity under pressure. Over time, those demands shape not only skills and identity, but the self-system itself, including the nervous system, perception, and meaning-making capacities.
For many Special Operations Forces personnel, psychological strain is not primarily the result of discrete traumatic events. It often emerges from role-based identity stress—the prolonged fusion between role, worth, and survival-critical performance. When identity becomes tightly bound to operational function, leadership responsibility, or mission necessity, transition, injury, moral conflict, or role loss can destabilize the coherence of the entire self-system.
Therapy for Special Operations Forces must therefore address thresholds: critical transition points where what once worked no longer fits, and where adaptation, loss, or role change requires reorganization rather than more effort.
In our work together, therapy is designed to help you cross these thresholds intentionally—integrating past experience, resolving role-based stress injuries, and restoring flexibility, clarity, and coherence for the life you are living now.
Because documentation matters—and because privacy is essential—we will clearly review what is recorded, where it is maintained, and how it is shared. You retain control. Our work is customized, deliberate, and aligned with both your clinical needs and your operational reality.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Human Performance Consultant
Trauma Researcher
Executive Coach
Working with the Special Operations community has been one of the greatest privileges—and heaviest responsibilities—of my career.
I have walked alongside some of the most capable, principled, and deeply human warriors I know, many of whom I am honored to call friends. My work has included individual therapy, intensive retreats, and collaborative efforts with senior leadership, including briefings with Colonels and Generals.
I have trained Army behavioral health teams in trauma and human performance, including work at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, at Regiment, and with providers supporting 7th Special Forces Group. These trainings focus on preparing clinicians to sit with the most difficult human experiences: moral injury, cumulative operational stress, identity rupture, and the psychological cost of sustained role-based demand.
I have conducted intensive therapy sessions on Care Coalition retreats, with Veteran Service Organization programs, in clinical settings, and in the field. I am trained in major evidence-based trauma approaches and have focused my work on identifying core therapeutic principles that can be adapted to the evolving thresholds of SOF service and transition.
In these roles, I have found not only professional purpose, but a sense of home.
In 2022, I encountered a threshold of my own. Years of working under the relentless operational tempo of the Global War on Terror had taken their toll. While sitting beside my father in a VA hospice, I came to a realization that reshaped my work: my commitment to addressing PTSD and moral injury was inseparable from my own life story.
I had long carried the hope that every warrior could come home in ways my father never could. At the end of his life, we were finally able to connect. He expressed pride in my work with the Army, and I allowed myself to grieve, to heal, and to be changed by that experience.
That moment marked a threshold—not away from trauma work, but toward a deeper focus on transition, identity integration, and moral repair, particularly where identity has been shaped by long-term service in high-consequence roles.
I later published research on military transition stress and the stories we carry through these passages. That work now forms part of the clinical foundation of my Threshold-Framed™ approach to therapy with SOF.
Life is not a single mission. It is a series of transitions—between identities, roles, and forms of meaning—until the final transition out of this life.
In clinical practice, post-traumatic growth does not emerge from erasing pain, but from moving through thresholds where identity, values, and meaning must be reorganized with coherence. Moral injury becomes moral integration. Loss becomes something that can be carried without defining the entirety of the self.
During periods of transition, the self-system’s ability to update identity often becomes constrained. When identity remains fused to a past role that no longer fits, pressure accumulates. This often appears not as visible failure, but as quiet erosion—of relationships, health, emotional range, and purpose.
Therapy provides a structured space to slow these moments down; to identify what has been gained, what has been lost, what remains unfinished, and what must be acknowledged or grieved in order to move forward intact.
This work is delivered through an asymmetrical model—not because you are broken, but because your experience is not symmetrical with conventional clinical pathways.
Therapy and coaching are distinct, though they often operate in sequence across thresholds.
You may have a diagnosis, VA involvement, a disability rating, or an existing treatment plan. Therapy allows us to process unresolved experiences and recalibrate your self-system to current demands. Coaching may then help align those gains with leadership, purpose, and performance in civilian life.
Thresholds are not problems to fix. They are moments that require a different kind of engagement.
Our Threshold-Framed™ therapeutic work may include:
This is not generic therapy, and it is not soft work. It is precision-guided clinical care grounded in neuroscience, self-organization, trauma research, and elite performance psychology.
The aim is not to make you someone else—but to help you cross thresholds without losing yourself.
You will build internal clarity, flexibility, and a personal operating system capable of supporting the next phase of your life with integrity.
This work is informed by and connected to broader efforts within the Special Operations community.
For advocacy, education, and community-based initiatives supporting SOF veterans and families, learn more at SOF Network: https://sofnetwork.org/
If you’re ready to work through what’s holding you back—or to unlock the next version of who you can become—let’s talk.