Music has always been more than background noise for me; it has been a place where something deeper shifts. I vividly remember in the 2010s being just a guy following jam bands up and down the East Coast, standing in crowds with my closest friends and feeling something I could not quite name at the time. Now, as a therapist, I understand those experiences through an Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed lens and how those experiences shaped my sense of self. What I understan

One truth I hold deeply at this point is this: everything, and I do mean everything, is political. Who gets safety and who doesn’t. Whose needs are considered essential. Who can violate the law without consequence. Who is treated as expendable. We cannot separate individual decision-making from the political context in which we live. Social justice requires that we identify systems of oppression, cultivate practices of resistance, and strengthen agency at the individual and

For me, it is not about titles, hierarchy, or being the person with the most confidence in the room, and it definitely isn’t about having everything figured out. Instead, I find myself leading from a place of quiet. My leadership shows up in the way I listen, in the way I slow myself down before responding, and in the way I choose curiosity and acceptance over defensiveness.