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As a Licensed Professional Counselor (PhD, LPC) for more than two decades, I have had the privilege of helping individuals and couples navigate the complex chapters of their lives. My work is guiding people as they do the profound work of rediscover who they are meant to be.
Beyond the counseling office, I remain actively engaged in teaching and pastoral care. I serve as the Pastor of Care Support at Ada Bible Church and as a professor at Cornerstone Theological Seminary in their counseling department.
I have been married to my wife, Julie, for thirty-two years, and together we share two married adult sons and our grandson. In my free time, I enjoy golf, writing and painting.
I offer a range of services designed to help you move forward:
Personal Counseling: If you are struggling with anxiety, depression, or emotional hurdles, we will talk through the issues and build a concrete plan to restore your hope.
Career Consulting: Feeling stuck professionally? I can help you clarify and navigate the next steps in your current or future career.
Clinical Supervision: For counselors in Michigan, I provide professional supervision to help you confidently navigate your caseload as an LLPC.
These are just a few of the ways I support my clients. Please feel free to reach out and schedule a free consultation.
The end goal for every person is to develop a friendship with God. One single passage is the heart of my book. Jesus shared these words at the Last Supper:
I'm no longer calling you servants because servants don't understand what their master is thinking and planning. No, I've named you friends because I've let you in on everything I've heard from the Father.
In The End of All Our Exploring, I invite you to step away from performative Christianity. Drawing from decades in the counseling room and my own history of addiction and redemption, I want to show you the scandalous reality at the center of the gospel: God deeply desires a friendship with us.
Without even realizing it, it is easy to slip into treating God as a distant acquaintance we only call in a crisis, or as a strict taskmaster we can never quite please. We can find ourselves trapped playing the role of the apathetic Believer or the burned-out Servant. But we were made for more than a flat, two-dimensional faith. We were designed to become a Friend of Jesus—someone who trades the exhaustion of religion for a seat at the table, resting in the security of being fully known.
If you are looking to deepen your relationship with God and move forward in your faith, I wrote this book for you.
The End of All Our Exploring on Amazon.
One of my greatest joys in life is painting and writing. I have been painting for 25 years and it is a perfect place for me to recharge and connect with Jesus.
This particular piece, captures a moment with my grandfather when I was five years old, and is one of my favorite works. This image was taken right after my dad had left our family, and my mom and I lived with my grandparents for a couple of years.
The most profound theology I ever learned didn’t come from a seminary; it came from my grandfather. He was a man who spent his career on a Roper factory assembly line and had a close marriage with my grandmother for fifty-two years. He showed me what sacrifice looks like, giving me a clear picture of what God must be like.
If you would like to see some of my other work I have done, just click on this link or the painting.
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