Story work, where
pastoral care meets trauma-informed practice.

For over a decade I've sat with people in the hard, holy work of understanding their own stories.

My path runs through narrative trauma care, pastoral ministry, and theological training — languages I was often told to keep separate. I've found the opposite to be true. The questions that matter most live right at their intersection: Who am I becoming? What's mine to carry? Where is grace in this?

I'm an ordained minister and serve as Assistant Pastor at City Church–Eastside here in Atlanta. I hold advanced Narrative Focused Trauma Care training from the Allender Center at The Seattle School of Psychology & Theology. More than any credential, I'm passionate about one thing: seeing people transformed as the story of the Gospel is bridged into their own particular stories.

I'm not a licensed therapist — and that's by design. My work lives upstream of the clinical: the story you're carrying, the meaning you're making, the soul beneath the symptoms. When clinical treatment is what's needed, I'll gladly help you find an excellent licensed therapist. This is a different, complementary kind of care.

Along the way I came to believe that lasting growth follows a rhythm — a cadence of rest and calling, input and output. We're formed in the quiet seasons and stretched in the active ones. Most of the people I meet aren't broken; they've simply fallen out of step with one or the other.

So the work, whether across a weekly hour, a focused intensive, or a training room, is always the same: slow down enough to hear the real story, tell the truth about it with kindness, and find a pace that heals rather than depletes.

Off the clock, you'll find me at home in Atlanta with my wife, Jennifer, and our four kids — Avery (our only girl), Keller, Graham, and Lincoln — which is its own ongoing education in story, grace, and a healthy cadence.