Kevin has nearly 20 years of experience and expertise working with at-risk youth and their families and with issues revolving around substance abuse. His clinical interests also include oppositional behavior, anxiety, family systems, ADHD, grief work and developing healthy coping strategies. His therapeutic approach includes empowerment, choice and reality therapy, emotional therapy, identity and awareness, and grief work. Kevin believes that the foundation for empowering change is building relationships with congruency, empathy and unconditional positive regard. He is passionate about helping people to identify the strengths and choices they have and to have hope about their lives.

Bringing a wealth of experience in a variety of therapeutic settings, Kevin has worked in outdoor/wilderness programs, therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centers, and experiential family programs. Prior to graduate school, Kevin worked with adolescents in both summer camps and wilderness therapy programs for ten years. Through this work, he realized his calling to work with youth and wilderness therapy in particular is where he learned that ultimately all people want to get their needs met, and that behaviors have intentions and are a means of communication.

While earning a master’s degree in Community Counseling at Western Carolina University, Kevin worked with high-risk teenagers in a therapeutic, residential setting. After graduation Kevin worked for two years at a therapeutic boarding school. His heart called him home to working in the woods again, where he served as a primary therapist and then family services manager at a therapeutic wilderness program for over 13 years.

Kevin has presented professionally at multiple conferences and symposiums at several conferences including the ACBS (Association for Contextual and Behavioral Sciences) World Conference, American Mental Health Counseling Association (AMHCA), and the North Carolina LCMHC Conference. Kevin is also an adjunct professor at Lenoir-Rhyne University, teaching in their graduate counseling program.

Kevin lives in Asheville with his wife and two children. As a former college baseball player, he continues this passion by playing on an adult league soccer team. He also likes to hike, woodworking, and work on his house.