About

People First
Evidence Always

  • For over 15 years, I have spent thousands of hours working directly with clients, helping clinicians develop their skills, and building specialized clinics for people whose lives and work place them under extraordinary pressure. My approach has been shaped by military service, clinical practice, and academic medicine.

My Story

A Career Rooted
in Service and Science

My career has taken me through military service, veterans’ healthcare, clinical practice, and academic medicine.


My professional journey began with my Army enlistment in 2001, followed by completion of a bachelors degree from Penn State. I earned a master’s degree focused on trauma psychology from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs followed by my PhD in Clinical Psychology from Virginia Tech. I then completed an APA-accredited clinical residency at the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

What I have learned in the therapy room has also informed more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. I am currently a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado’s Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience, an adjunct professor at the University of Utah, and a Tillman Scholar

  • Bachelor of Science from Penn State University

  • Masters of Science from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs in Clinical Psychology

  • PhD from Virginia Tech in Clinical Psychology

  • APA Accredited Residency at the VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging at University of Utah School of Medicine

  • Assistant Professor at University of Utah and VA Salt Lake City (2017-2021)

  • Assistant Professor at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy (2021-Present)

  • Research Assistant Professor, Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience (2021 - Present)

Dartmouth ➔
Publications ➔
Tillman Scholar ➔

  • I began my post-doctoral faculty career at the University of Utah while also working as a staff psychologist at VA Salt Lake City. I later joined Dartmouth, where I held clinical and faculty roles at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the Geisel School of Medicine. My clinical, teaching, and research work there focused on physicians, medical trainees, nurses, and healthcare leaders. I’ve helped lead and carry out research supported by more than $8 million in federal, state, and foundation grant funding across my career span.

    During my career, I have founded two specialized clinics—one for first responders and another for medical residents and fellows.

    Across these clinics and my other clinical roles, I have spent thousands of hours sitting with people in therapy and training young clinicians, researchers, and educators. Through these experiences, I have developed an understanding of the ways people adapt to trauma, loss, responsibility, and sustained pressure. They have made me a better therapist and helped me develop new approaches to caring for people whose lives and work ask a great deal of them.

Values

What you can Expect from Me

DIRECT

ENGAGED

ACTIVE

I listen carefully, ask questions, share what I notice, and speak plainly. Together, we'll work to understand the patterns in your life—why they developed, how they may have served you, and whether they are still serving you today.

My approach is direct, practical, and collaborative. Therapy involves difficult conversations, but there's also plenty of room for humor, curiosity, and disagreement. I'll challenge you when I think it's helpful, but my job isn't to tell you how to live your life. It's to help you figure out what matters to you and how to live more fully in that direction.

Beyond the Office

Outside of work, I’m a husband and dad to two kids. The pursuit of the good life for me includes time with family and friends around music, downhill skiing, biking, fishing, camping and fermenting nearly anything.

I’m also drawn to Type 2 fun: splitting wood, tackling carpentry projects, bike packing, and backcountry skiing. I like working with my hands, getting a little lost in the mountains and sharing adventures with the people I love.

My worldview and way of living has been shaped in indelible ways by writers, thinkers, and musicians whose work has stayed with me over the years—Wendell Berry, Peter Heller, Mary Oliver, Tim Keller, C.S. Lewis, Marc Maron, Terry Gross, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Steve Martin, and Billy Strings, to name a few. Their words and music continue to shape how I think about life, relationships, community, and what makes a life well lived.

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