Evan is committed to helping clients understand  needs, move through pain or obstacles, develop goals for manifesting outcomes, and creating healthy relationship with oneself and others. He has been professionally practicing this intention for 15 years as a therapist, licensed mental health counselor, and experiential guide. He is passionate about showing up for his family, adventuring in the world, practicing health and wellness, and empowering people to actualize the reaches of our human potential. 

Evan (he/him/his) originally hails from Long Island, New York but has always felt that the mountains of Vermont feel most like home. After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware and subsequent work in the hospitality and human resource fields, Evan went on to earn a master’s degree in counseling for Mental Health and Wellness from New York University. Prior to private practice, Evan worked as a wilderness therapist, a licensed mental health counselor in New York City, and as a wilderness guide leading individuals and families on adventure-based experiences throughout the United States, Canada, South America, and the Middle East. After graduate school, he became the Assistant Director for a community-based organization offering social, vocational, academic, and independent living programs for young adults and families.

After guiding and developing programs in New York, Evan moved to Vermont with his family where he combined his passion for wilderness with his calling to help and guide others towards cultivating lives of intention, health, and balance. As a Wilderness Therapist, Evan worked with families and students on building a healthy self-concept, developing deep understanding of relationships, and cultivating meaningful connections with the self and others.

Evan helps people struggling with with emotional imbalance, anxiety, depression, challenges with technology or substance use, social communication challenges, executive functioning difficulties, learning differences and challenges related to successfully launching into independence, emotional self-sufficiency and cultivating healthy, connected relationships.

Evan employs a strength-based, person-centered and experiential approach that fosters open and honest communication, and draws on Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Compassionate Inquiry as a means for understanding pain, building trust and strengthening one’s relationship with the self. Evan also utilizes the Gottman Method when helping couples to develop healthier communication patterns. Evan teaches sensory, somatic, and neurobiological strategies for regulating the nervous system and utilizes a skills-based, mindfulness approach for helping clients to attain balance in their day to day lives.  As a Level II Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Evan is an expert in trauma-informed approaches. Though this process, we help clients to build a sense of internal trust and safety, develop self-regulation skills and effectively process traumatic life experiences.  

When not working, Evan can often be found cooking or playing outside with his dog and family—tending to the family garden and chickens, or hiking, biking, paddle boarding, ski-touring, and snowboarding in and around the beautiful mountains of the Northeast.