My Approach to Therapy
You may be the person everyone depends on—the one who keeps showing up, solving problems, and carrying responsibilities for your family, career, or community. From the outside, your life may look successful, but internally you feel exhausted, disconnected, anxious, or uncertain about who you are beyond what you do for others.
Most men who find their way to my practice aren't in crisis. They're functioning — often at a high level — and that's exactly the problem. When you're performing well on the outside, nobody asks how you're actually doing. And after long enough, you stop asking yourself.
I work with high-performing men who have spent years building lives that look right from the outside while something quieter erodes underneath. The perfectionism that never lets them rest. The self-worth that collapses the moment results slip. The anxiety that follows them into rooms they've earned the right to be in. The burnout that no amount of vacation seems to fix.
My approach is grounded in Character Driven Therapy (CDT), an integrative framework I developed specifically for this population. CDT is built on a simple premise: lasting change for high-performing men requires working at the level of identity, not just symptom management. We don't just address the anxiety — we examine the architecture underneath it. Where your self-worth came from. Why it's tied to output. What it would mean to feel okay about yourself independent of results.
In practice, CDT draws from psychodynamic and existential work to explore the deeper patterns shaping your sense of self, and from CBT, ACT, and Solution-Focused therapy to build concrete tools that create real change between sessions. The work is direct, engaged, and built for men who are wired to handle everything alone — and are ready to try something different.
Before I was a therapist, I was a U.S. Marine. I know what it costs to project strength while something quieter is going on underneath. I didn't build this practice because it's a profitable niche. I built it because I understand these men from the inside — and because I've seen what becomes possible when they finally decide to do something about it.
If any of this resonates, reach out for a free 15-minute consultation. The first conversation is just a conversation.
My Practice & Services
Join the Rebellion 23 Inc. is a solo telehealth practice built specifically for high-performing men. All sessions are conducted virtually, making the work accessible regardless of where you are within my licensed states — North Carolina, New York, Massachusetts, Florida, South Carolina, Connecticut, Illinois, Utah, and Idaho.
Sessions are private pay at $155 per session. I do not bill insurance directly, but I provide superbills for clients seeking out-of-network reimbursement through their plan. I'm happy to walk you through what that process looks like if you're unfamiliar with it.
I work with individual adult men only. I do not currently offer couples therapy, group sessions, or workshops, though educational content on men's mental health, self-worth, and Character Driven Therapy (CDT) is available through my Substack at jointherebellion23.substack.com.
A free 15-minute consultation is available for all prospective clients. It's a low-stakes conversation to determine fit before committing to anything.
My Therapy Focus
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My therapeutic focus is the internal life of high-performing men — specifically the gap between how capable they appear on the outside and how they actually experience themselves on the inside.
The presenting problems vary: anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, relationship strain, identity confusion, lack of purpose. But underneath most of them is a common thread — a sense of self-worth that is entirely contingent on performance, achievement, and external validation. Men who have spent so long proving themselves that they've lost touch with who they are beneath the proof.
My focus is not symptom relief in isolation. Symptoms matter and we address them — but the deeper work is identity-level change. Helping a man develop a stable, internally anchored sense of self that doesn't collapse when results slip, relationships strain, or circumstances shift. That's the work that produces something permanent rather than something that has to be maintained.
Within that focus I work across several intersecting areas:
Perfectionism and performance anxiety — the relentless internal critic, the fear of exposure, the standards that can never quite be met
Proof-based self-worth — self-concept built entirely on output, achievement, and external validation rather than internal foundation
Burnout and identity — exhaustion that goes deeper than workload, into a fundamental misalignment between who a man is performing and who he actually is
Imposter syndrome — the persistent sense of fraudulence that follows high performers into rooms they've earned the right to be in
Life transitions — fatherhood, career pivots, midlife, the aftermath of major loss or failure
Men's relational patterns — emotional suppression, difficulty with vulnerability, disconnection in intimate relationships
Existential questions — meaning, purpose, values, and what kind of man a client actually wants to be
All of this work is conducted through Character Driven Therapy (CDT), the integrative framework I developed specifically for this population.
