I attended and graduated with a BS from the Business School at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina where I learned the importance of self-discipline, hard work, and a never give up attitude. As I gained interest in medicine, I attended and graduated with a BS in Biochemistry from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro before receiving a medical degree from The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

I further completed a residency in General Psychiatry from Wake Forest School of Medicine where I developed skills as a psychopharmacologist and passion for spiritually integrated psychotherapeutic principles.

I have practiced both child/adolescent and adult inpatient and emergency psychiatry as well as outpatient child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. I have experience as an academic psychiatric physician serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry while teaching and mentoring psychiatric resident physicians and medical students.

Clinical practice has shown me that the patient-physician relationship can be the crucible for therapeutic change. As humans, our biochemistry, psychology, habits and lifestyles, mind and body, and spirituality all inform our mental well-being and it is from this template I practice an integrative approach to medicine. Be it depression, anxiety, insomnia, or difficulties with trauma, psychopathology has been described as “the expression of the suffering of the soul.” Likewise, the etymology of the word psychotherapy means “to attend to or pay attention to the soul.”