I’m Benjamin. Counselor, coach, musician, writer, and recovering corporate person.

I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to figure out the gap between the life I was living and the one that actually felt like mine. That’s not just a therapeutic framework for me — it’s my story.

I spent 15 years in finance and insurance. I was good at it. I showed up, I performed, I checked the boxes. And for a long time, I told myself that was enough. It wasn’t. Burnout has a way of making the truth impossible to ignore.

Leaving that career to become a therapist wasn’t a pivot. It was a return — to the version of myself that had always been there underneath the resume.

I’m neurodivergent — ADHD and anxiety, both.

Not in the abstract, theoretical way. In the “lost track of time again, now I’m scrambling, now my nervous system is wrecked” way. I know what it’s like to understand exactly what’s happening to you and still not be able to stop it. I know the gap between awareness and ability. I know how exhausting it is to move through a world that wasn’t really designed for the way your brain works.

That lived experience isn’t separate from my work as a therapist. It’s central to it.

I’ve been a musician my whole life.

Not as a hobby I picked up. As a constant — something that has been present across every version of me, through every season of my life. I write, record, and produce music from my home studio. I keep a Substack called The Complicated Human, where I write personal essays about ADHD, meaning, creativity, and what it actually feels like to be a person navigating all of this.

The questions that show up in my therapy room are the same ones that show up in my music and my writing. That’s not a coincidence.

Who I work with:

I work with adults who are anxious, burned out, or stuck — especially neurodivergent adults and creative people who feel disconnected from what matters to them. People who think deeply and feel deeply. People who want more than symptom management.

If you’ve been quietly wondering whether the life you’re living is actually the life you want — that’s where we start.

Credentials, if you need them:

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Florida, Missouri, and Washington. Available exclusively via telehealth. My clinical approach draws from psychodynamic, existential, person-centered, and IFS frameworks.