Built from the line.Built for the line.
Trauma resolution and clinical consulting for public safety, military, and high-performance professionals — from a clinician with 20+ years in uniform and a credential stack built to serve the people who carry the weight.
& Supervision
Enforcement
Albert Ellis Institute
Lineage
Safety
Your therapist shouldn’t need to Google what a fatal funnel is.
I spent 15 years in law enforcement before I spent a day in a therapist’s chair as the clinician. I was an EMT before that. I’ve made the calls, worked the scenes, and carried the weight that most counselors have only read about.
Then I got the education to do something about it. A PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision. EMDR certification under the military’s foremost combat trauma clinician. Recognition as an Associate Fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute — a distinction held by only a handful of clinicians worldwide.
The work I do is targeted, structured, and built to get results. Not to keep you in therapy forever. Not to hand you coping skills and call it treatment. Real resolution, built for people whose lives don’t leave much room for anything less.
The full stack.
- PhD, Counselor Education & Supervision — University of the Cumberlands (CACREP-accredited)
- Second doctorate in Trauma-Informed Care (nearing completion)
- LPCC-S — Kentucky · Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, Supervisor
- Associate Fellow, Albert Ellis Institute — one of a select few worldwide
- EMDR Certified — trained under Dr. E.C. Hurley, military’s foremost combat trauma clinician
- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)
- National Certified Counselor (NCC)
- Clinical Mental Health Director, The Wounded Blue
- Galls Police Advisory Board
- Adjunct Faculty, University of the Cumberlands & Liberty University
- 15 years law enforcement · Former EMT & firefighter
The people most therapists don’t understand.
Law Enforcement
The calls that stay with you. The hypervigilance that won’t shut off at home. The feeling that nobody outside the job gets it. I’ve been on those calls.
Fire & EMS
The scenes replaying at 3 AM. The guilt. The numbness that replaced the person your family remembers. I’ve run those calls too.
Military & Veterans
The transition nobody prepared you for. The operating system that kept you alive overseas but is wrecking things at home. There’s a way to keep the edge without the damage.
Spouses & Families
You’ve watched someone you love disappear behind the badge or the uniform. You need someone who understands your side of that door.
Healthcare Professionals
Compassion fatigue isn’t a buzzword — it’s what happens when the system keeps taking and nobody takes care of the caretakers.
High-Performers
Executives, attorneys, founders, operators — anyone carrying weight from a high-pressure career that followed them home. If you’re wired for high stakes, you need a clinician who is too.
I don’t do endless talk therapy.
Most therapy asks you to talk about what happened. I go after why your system is still stuck there — and I fix it.
Assess what’s actually happening.
We figure out whether you’re dealing with unresolved trauma your body is still holding, belief patterns running your decisions, or both. That determines the plan — not a one-size approach.
Target the root.
If your nervous system is stuck in threat mode from a call years ago, coping skills are useless. EMDR resolves what’s stuck. REBT rebuilds the thinking underneath. Sequenced. Targeted. Evidence-based.
Get you out of here.
The goal isn’t for you to be in therapy forever. It’s for you to walk out with a clear head, a regulated system, and the tools to stay that way. Resolution, not dependence.
Clinical therapy where I’m licensed. Clinical consulting nationwide.
Clinical psychotherapy requires state licensure in the client’s state of residence. I’m actively licensed in Kentucky and in the process of obtaining licensure by endorsement in additional states to serve the public safety and military populations that referred themselves here.
If you’re outside my current licensure footprint, clinical consulting is available in all 50 states. That’s not therapy — it’s one-on-one work with a clinician who has 20+ years in uniform and a framework built specifically for high-stress professionals. No insurance. No diagnosis. No clinical records.
States listed as “In Process” reflect active endorsement applications. Target dates updated quarterly.
Real talk about trauma, neuroscience, and what actually works.
No scripts. No soft platitudes. I break down the science behind why first responders carry what they carry — and what to do about it. New episodes regularly.
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The Hurley legacy.
Trained by the man who wrote the book on military & public safety EMDR.
Colonel E.C. Hurley (Ret.) was the foremost expert in EMDR with military and public safety populations. 33 years of Army service. Founder of the Soldier Center. Selected and trained personally by Dr. Francine Shapiro. Recipient of EMDRIA’s Francine Shapiro Award — the highest honor in the field.
His 2018 paper in Frontiers in Psychology demonstrated that intensive daily EMDR produced statistically significant PTSD resolution with results holding at one-year follow-up. That research is the foundation of the intensive work I do.
I was personally trained by Dr. Hurley before his passing in 2021. Both Dr. Hurley and his widow personally endorsed me to carry forward his clinical legacy — the methodology, the protocol, and the mission of serving the men and women who protect this country.
“Personal endorsement documentation available upon request.”Seven years with the clinicians Ellis trained.
Dr. Albert Ellis is the reason modern cognitive therapy exists. Before Beck built CBT on top of his work, Ellis developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in the 1950s and spent the rest of his career demonstrating that the beliefs running underneath emotion — not the events themselves — are what drive human suffering. His methodology is the clinical ancestor of nearly every evidence-based talk therapy in use today.
I spent seven years training directly with the clinicians Ellis personally trained — the last generation of practitioners carrying his methodology forward at the level he taught it. Not a weekend certificate. Not an online course. Seven years of clinical mentorship from the people who learned REBT in the chair next to him.
The result of that training is recognition as an Associate Fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute — a distinction held by a small number of clinicians globally. The Fellowship isn’t a credential you purchase. It’s a recognition the institute extends to clinicians whose work reflects Ellis’s methodology at the level he himself would have endorsed.
Why this matters for you: Tier 2 of the NRC Framework is Rational Reconstruction. That’s the belief work — the disputation, the evidence-testing, the methodical dismantling of the irrational demands your system has been running under since the installation event. Every time I say “what’s the belief running underneath?” in a video or a session, that’s Ellis. Every time I ask “where’s the evidence?” instead of “how does that make you feel?” — that’s Ellis.
The men I work with don’t leave sessions with better coping skills. They leave with the actual beliefs that were running their patterns — disputed, reconstructed, and replaced. That’s not a technique I picked up in a weekend. It’s seven years of training in the clinical tradition that built cognitive therapy, delivered by the people who learned it from the man himself.
Fellowship documentation and training lineage available upon request.
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