As a counselor, I worked in Texas for a few years as an elementary school behavioral interventionist and a counselor at Catholic Charities. In 2011, I joined Wycliffe and its global partner, SIL, serving as a counselor in the USA for a year. I then moved to Kenya, where I worked for five years at Tumaini Counseling Center. While in Kenya, I met my wife, Ellie, and we continued working in separate organizations. After leaving Kenya, we joined the SIL Eurasia region together. We lived in North Africa and are now based in Malaga, Spain, where we partner with Sentwell.org in addition to serving with SIL. For SIL, I am the Eurasia Wellbeing Services Leader and counselor. I have extensive experience working with children, teens, and families from diverse cultural backgrounds. 

My counseling background is rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Systems Therapy, and Trauma, utilizing EMDR and CBT, all from a Christian perspective. I provide individual, marital, family, and group counseling, as well as debriefings for people from diverse nationalities across various organizations. These sessions include ongoing counseling, short-term intensive care, and debriefings of critical incidents. My expertise encompasses trauma and PTSD, anxiety/OCD, depression, issues affecting children and adolescents, addiction, stress and burnout, marriage and family, and any aspect of cross-cultural life and work. Additionally, I offer support and consultation to administrators regarding staff-related issues.

I enjoy writing, developing workshops, and speaking about mental health and cross-cultural issues. You can view the workshops I have developed here. These topics include the integration of spiritual formation with traumatized clients, emotional intelligence, trauma-informed staff care, boundaries, stress, parenting in the digital age, teens and trauma, addiction, the porn problem, resilience, and more. I co-authored the facilitator guide and teen journal “Healing Teens’ Wounds of Trauma” and the online teen disaster guide “Unstuck.” I contributed a chapter to the book “The Essentials for People Care and Development.” I co-host the podcast “Shop Talk” with Brandi and James, which features over 40 episodes dedicated to mental health issues for cross-cultural workers. I also currently serve on the board of directors for Wycliffe USA.