About Kyle

I didn't grow up in a house where everything was stable. My mom had me young, and life was chaotic in ways that kids shouldn't have to navigate on their own. There were stretches where my grandparents stepped in and gave me what my home couldn't always provide. My stepdad wasn't someone I could lean on. So I learned early what it felt like to need someone in your corner and not have one.

What I also learned is that it only takes a few people to change where your life is headed. Growing up in North Houston, I had people in my community who showed up for me — a youth pastor, neighbors, adults who didn't have to pay attention to a kid from a complicated home but did anyway. They stayed consistent. They asked real questions. I never forgot that, and I don't think you forget something like that. Every person I work with deserves someone in their corner who actually stays there.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is my primary clinical framework. We'll look at how your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected and build tools you can actually use outside of our sessions — not just talk about. I work with some structure, but the direction is always yours.

I'd describe myself as a 3/4 glass full kind of person — not someone who pretends the hard stuff isn't real, but someone who genuinely believes things can get better with the right effort and the right support. I'll bring that into the room with us. I come in professional — that part's just me — but the care behind it is real, and people tend to feel that even when I'm still in button-up mode.

Faith looks different for everyone, and I mean that genuinely. I grew up in the Christian church and it's been a grounding part of my own life, but where you land spiritually is yours — I'm just here to support what that means for you. I've worked alongside people from many different backgrounds and I've seen how much meaning people carry in their own traditions. I've worked alongside people from different backgrounds that included a lot of harm done by churches. I am a firm believer in finding meaning in your life that includes faith or not. Whatever your faith looks like, if reconnecting with it feels like part of your healing, that belongs in our work together.

I've spent over a decade working with people living with serious mental illness — schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression — many of them also navigating the legal system in ways that compounded everything else. I've worked in Assertive Community Treatment programs, crisis residential settings, and forensic competency restoration programs, and I currently help oversee a state-level pilot program for individuals found incompetent to stand trial.