Watch Me Work Before You Work With Me

Most people choose a therapist based on a headshot and a short bio. With Trauma Dump, you get something almost no one else gets. You can actually watch me work before deciding if you want to explore therapy with me.

The show started as a comedy experiment with Lou Wilson and turned into a surprisingly honest look at what therapy can feel like when it is relational, present focused, playful, and grounded in the client’s goals. If you found me because of the show, welcome. This page is for you.

What Trauma Dump Is

One day, my friend Lou Wilson decided to tell his audience he was goignt o livestream his own therapy. In fact, he was going to play a character version of himself, and try to satirically sabotage therapy while his audience watched. He told me he didn’t want to hire an actor to pretend to be a therapist, but rather have a real therapist play the part, so he asked me.

The constraints: I wouldn’t know anything about his plans, I would pretend not to know him, and I couldn’t ask about his past o his relationships so as to not implicate anyone in real life in the drama. You might think this would make therapy impossible, but all it really meant was that we had to work in the here-and-now, which is a style I deeply love.

You will see:
• Relational therapy in action. I focus on what is happening between us, not only what is happening inside you.
• Experiential work. Empty chair, character play, and improvisational approaches that surface emotions quickly.
• ACT themes. Allowing hard feelings, naming values, and choosing direction based on what matters most.
• Solution Focused orientation. We keep returning to the changes you want and how you will know things are improving.

A Welcome to Trauma Dump Fans

If you discovered my work through Trauma Dump, you have already seen more of my therapeutic style than most new clients ever get to. You have seen transparency, curiosity, attempts at repair, humor used carefully, and moments slowed down for clarity. My actual clients get a much more private, spacious, and personalized version of that same relational DNA.

If you want to explore working together and you live in California, you can visit my therapy page or contact me for a consultation.

What Trauma Dump Teaches About Therapy

Watching the show is not the same as being in therapy, but it does reveal the core ideas behind my work.

• Relational transparency. I name what I am tracking and why.
• Humor as relief. Humor is never used to avoid pain, only to make it more workable.
• Choice and consent. Interventions are invitations, not demands.
• Trauma as adaptation. We look at what once made sense and how you want to grow now.