Some people find their way here after years of trying to outwork the pain. Others arrive exhausted from holding it together for everyone else, wondering when someone is going to ask how they are doing with the intent to really listen, not the intent to respond. Some cannot name what is wrong. They only know that something inside them has been quiet for too long, or too loud, or both.

Whatever brought you here, you are not broken. You are human. And you have already done something harder than most people realize just taking this step.

I have spent more than twenty years sitting with people in some of the most difficult moments of their lives. In crisis. In courtrooms. In the aftermath of events they were unsure they would survive.

And what I have learned in that time is that the people who seem the hardest to reach are often the ones who have simply never been met where they actually are.

So, that is what I try to do.

When you decide to take that next step, I will be here.