Go deeper.
More than sixteen years of meeting people exactly where they are — and walking with them into the territory most therapists won't enter.
Individual counseling at Deepening is not symptom management. It is sustained, depth-oriented work for people who are ready to confront the patterns underneath the patterns. Sessions are 50 minutes — weekly, bi-weekly, or bi-monthly — in person in Asheville or via secure telehealth statewide in North Carolina.
I work across five specialty tracks. Most clients move between them as the work unfolds — addiction recovery opens trauma work, trauma work opens existential questions, existential questions reveal new patterns of compulsion. The tracks are entry points, not categories you get locked into.
Five entry points to
the same deeper work.
Addiction Recovery & Stabilization
Substance, sex, love, pornography, and gambling addiction across the full spectrum — from active use through long-term recovery. I work with people whose addictions look obvious from the outside and with people whose addictions are invisible to everyone around them. Recovery is not abstinence alone. It is rebuilding a life that no longer requires the substance or behavior to function.
Trauma & Inner Child Work
Grounded in Pia Mellody's developmental model and somatic approaches. The Meadows trained me directly in inner child psychodrama format. Trauma is not what happened to you — it is what your nervous system carried out of it. The work is to make contact with the parts of you that are still living inside that earlier moment, and bring them home.
Sex & Love Addiction
Carnes-model intensive work for compulsive sexual behavior and relational addiction. This is its own territory and it requires a clinician who knows it. Compulsive sexual behavior, fantasy-bonded relationships, love and romance addiction, partners of sex addicts — the work is specific, structured, and deeply effective when done with someone trained in it.
Psychedelic Harm Reduction & Integration
Preparation, harm reduction, and integration support for people who are doing or have done psychedelic work — ketamine, psilocybin, MDMA, ayahuasca. I do not facilitate journeys. I work with what comes back. Integration is where the actual change happens. Without it, the experience becomes a souvenir instead of a turning point.
Life Transitions & Existential Work
For individuals navigating identity shifts, meaning crises, vocational pivots, and the examined life. Frankl, Yalom, DeMello, Terrance Real. The work is not always about what is wrong. Sometimes it is about what is true, and whether you are willing to live by it.
"The unexamined life is not worth living."— Socrates
Ready to schedule?
Free 15-minute consultation. We'll talk about what is going on and whether the work I do is the right fit.