Email me to ask anything or to schedule with me directly: will@hopemft.com

Specializations

My work is grounded in a relational, systems-oriented approach that integrates:

  • Person-Centered Therapy – prioritizing attunement, unconditional positive regard, and the healing power of a safe relational field
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) – working with parts as adaptive responses rather than pathologies
  • Bowen Family Systems – understanding how relational patterns, differentiation, and multigenerational dynamics shape the present

These frameworks are not used rigidly or mechanically. They serve the deeper aim of helping your internal and relational systems return to coherence, safety, and connection.

I don’t see people as broken. I see people who had to split themselves to survive situations that overwhelmed them. Parts of you pushed. Parts hid. Parts held everything together when no one else did. Those fractured parts weren’t failures, they were adaptively brilliant under pressure.

I’m not interested in making you more manageable or helping you perform wellness more convincingly. I’m much more interested in what’s happening underneath the coping.
Why does a part of you feel like it has to hold the whole world together alone?
Why does another part seem to sabotage when someone gets too close?
Why does another part shut down, or disappear, or armor up?

Therapy with me is slow, curious, and collaborative.
We move at the pace of your nervous system, not the pace of urgency or expectation, because emotions and the nervous system move at the pace they are comfortable with.
We explore your internal world with compassion and curiosity rather than blunt force.
We don’t rip coping mechanisms away, we help them loosen gently, when they’re ready to let go.

Instead of trying to control your experience, we learn to listen to it.
Not to get rid of your parts, but to help them come back into relationship,
so you don’t have to live in a tug-of-war inside your own chest.

I believe when the system stops fighting itself, life stops feeling like one long effort.
There’s breath again. There’s more clarity. There’s more ease. There’s more you.

Not improved. Not perfected. Just no longer divided.

Outside the therapy room, I’m usually with my wife and our daughters, unabashedly living the hobbitonian life of the geriatric Millennial – taking walks, squeezing in naps and occasional armchair book-reading, and keeping life interesting with the occasional near-death encounter with excess saliva and a rogue Werther’s Original. My salivary glands and I are working through things. Progress is being made.

Qualifications

  • M.S. – Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Exp. December 2026)
    Focus:     Couples, Marriage, and Family