Hi, I’m Jeff. I know that starting therapy can often be a hard step to take, and the fact that you are on this website right now, considering diving in to some personal work, is no small feat. If you’d like to continue the momentum that you started today by working with me, I would be honored, and I’d like to let you know a little bit more about me and the way that I work with clients.

I earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Adams State University in Colorado in 2023, and I have worked in the mental health field since 2017, supporting teens and their families as they navigated life’s challenges. My work prior to that was in education and guiding in and around Glacier National Park. The natural world continues to inspire and influence the way I walk through the world and the way that I help my clients.

I approach each and every client from a humanistic lens, which means that I honor your expertise on who you are and the good reasons that you have to feel and think the way you do. At the same time, I can offer you a fresh perspective and help you to see blind spots or cognitive distortions that may be getting in your way, so that you are able to see things more clearly and live your life the way that you want to. From there, I draw upon Internal Family Systems (IFS), which can be helpful in integrating all of your parts and in developing a solid sense of self, Somatic Experiencing, which utilizes Polyvagal Theory in order to treat trauma and give you the skills to regulate your nervous system, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), which is a skills-based approach that can improve emotional reguation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance.

In couples work, I use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in order to help you and your partner to recognize how your negative cycle gets in the way of connection and how you can slowly lean in to vulnerability to put down your protections and open yourself up to a deeper emotional bond.