Our Team

Jack is the Founder & Clinical Director of Catharsis Counseling Center

Jack is a guide through the transformation process of change.  Through holistic therapies like Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Family Systems, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Gestalt, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, and Post-Induction Therapy (PIT) the goal of treatment is to bring our nervous system into a place of balance and give the client the space to grow and create a life that if intentional and forward looking.

Jack creates space for you to change the story of who you have had to be in order to survive so that you can focus on rewriting the script of who you become in order for you to thrive.

Jack is a licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a Licensed Independent Addiction Counselor (LIAC).  Jack is also a supervisor for both licenses in AZ and Jack Is a LCSW, LCAS and CCS in NC.  Jack received his MSW in 2000 from the Joint MSW program between NC Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&T) and UNC Greensboro.  Jack has worked across the life span in his career serving clients who are experiencing co-occurring or intersecting disorders like mental health challenges, addictive disorders (both process and substance) and experiences of covert and overt trauma.  Jack received training at the Meadows in Post Induction Therapy and through PESI became a certified trauma professional.  Jack is currently a doctoral student at Yeshiva University studying social welfare and social work.

Jack is openly LGBTQIA+ and has extensive experience working with those who are trans, Nonbinary, gender fluid, and queer.  Jack specializes in helping those who experienced faith abuse by religious communities who pushed conversion strategies to change someone's identity.