ABOUT ME

I am a psychiatric drug coach who has first hand experience with the devastation these drugs inflict, and am dedicated to helping others heal and recover from their damaging effects. In 2015, I entered a treatment center and survived a rapid 9-day taper from a cocktail of prescription drugs. My health was devastated, my mental faculties were severely damaged, and I suffered from a barrage of horrifying symptoms. After spending years recovering, I have found a new drive and passion in helping others who are suffering the same as I was, and I now work to help pull them up from the trenches of psych drug damage.

I am the founder of Philosophical Fishing, an online space that seeks to bring light, healing, and awareness to benzodiazepine and psychiatric drug injuries. Through Philosophical Fishing, I collaborate with others in the psych drug community across various social media platforms to help spread awareness and hope via interviews, podcasts, and videos. Due to my unwavering involvement in my recovery community, I have witnessed the therapeutic effects that result from identifying with someone who has been where they are. I now utilize that understanding to help gently guide others to walk the path towards deep healing.

I bring to my coaching years of experience helping people who are enduring the agony of chemical dependency, homelessness, prescription drug withdrawal, abuse, mental health issues, and other difficult life circumstances. I have worked to establish weekly meetings at my local hospital psychiatric unit, and have served there as volunteer coordinator, helping to ensure that people would have a safe place each week to talk with someone in recovery. I have founded, organized, and coordinated meetings at a prominent drug treatment center, helping to spread my message of hope by speaking to hundreds of patients each week, many of whom have been badly injured by prescription drugs. I have also volunteered hundreds of hours by speaking at detox facilities, homeless shelters, hospitals, rehabs, and has compassionately assisted people by helping to place them into medical facilities for alcohol and drug detoxification. In addition to tirelessly helping those who suffer, I also offer support to loved ones of people damaged by psychiatric drugs, who may be at a loss on how best to help them. I will earnestly consult with doctors and healthcare providers on behalf of my clients in order to help doctors better understand their patients’ confusing symptoms.

With a diverse background of lived experience, coupled with formal training, I bring forth a unique perspective and empathetic approach to coaching. A trauma survivor who was diagnosed with multiple psychiatric labels, I am familiar with the medical system and the failures and shortcomings of the psychiatric profession in helping people to truly heal and create lasting change. In addition to my lived experience, I hold a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, am a certified life coach, and a certified peer support specialist. I am passionate and committed to healthy living, giving to others all that I can, encouraging others that they have purpose, and striving to continually become a better version of myself. I currently live in North Carolina with my wife and 2 children. When not coaching, I love fishing, hiking, biking, meditating, playing guitar, and finding meaningful connection with others. I plan to remain focused on being a guiding light for others still in the depths of prescription drug injuries.

MY SPECIALTIES

• Emotional Care & Support For People In Psych Drug Withdrawal

• Ongoing Protracted Symptom & Life Re-Integration Support

• Coachee Advocate To Family & Healthcare Providers

• Addiction/Chemical Dependency Coaching

• Mental/Physical Wellness & Health Coaching