Forty years. One calling.
I didn't start out thinking I'd spend forty years helping people with ADHD and anxiety. I started as a baseball coach — college and university level, scouting for two Major League teams. What I learned from coaching is that performance comes first, and feeling follows. You don't wait for a player to feel confident before you give them the tools to perform. You give them the tools. Confidence is the byproduct of competence.
That's still how I think about clinical work. I don't ask people how they feel. I ask what we can do to make things better. The feelings follow the improvement. They always do.
The neurofeedback years
I came to neurofeedback in the late 1980s, before it had become a topic anyone outside a research lab would recognize. I came to it because I had clients — children especially — who weren't responding to what was available, and I was convinced there had to be something better than telling a kid to try harder.
Thirty-five years later, the research has caught up with what I was seeing in my office all along. Neurofeedback works. It works for ADHD. It works for anxiety. It works for the overlap between them. It doesn't work the same way for every brain — which is why the type matters, and why protocol selection matters, and why working with someone who has actually done this for decades matters more than the technology you're using.
The faith that runs through everything
I am a pastor as well as a clinician. These are not two separate jobs. They are two expressions of the same calling: to help people. Every person I work with carries what I believe is the image of God — inherent dignity, real potential, and a capacity for transformation that their circumstances may have obscured but have never erased.
I don't impose this on anyone. But I don't pretend it isn't there either. My faith shapes how I see people — particularly the ones who have spent years believing the lies that got handed to them: that they're broken, that they'll never amount to anything, that they just need to try harder. Those are lies. And I've spent forty years proving it.
How I work
Brain-based, not symptom-based
Symptoms are the smoke. I'm looking for the fire. Understanding what's actually happening in the brain changes what you do about it — and what you expect.
Performance-first
Like a baseball coach: improve what the brain can do, and confidence follows. Not "talk about your feelings first." Do the thing, feel better about the thing.
No shame, no blame
ADHD is not a moral failure. Anxiety is not weakness. The brain is doing what brains do. Understanding that is where all the good work begins.
Mutual selection
Not every person is the right fit for my approach, and not every approach is the right fit for every person. Clarity about this from the start is kindness, not rejection.
The things that matter most
I have been married to my wife for over 45 years. We have three adult children — including a daughter who is also a Marriage and Family Therapist, and two sons who I'm collaborating with on technology projects. We have five grandchildren who make everything else make sense.
I'm building a mental health and counseling center at a drug recovery program in Washington state. I'm developing ADHD and anxiety apps with my sons. I'm rebuilding this website. I'm writing. I'm still seeing clients.
The calling doesn't retire. It just finds new ways to show up.
If you'd like to work with me, I'd like to hear your story. Let's find out together what's possible.