Built on Real Clinical Experience.

I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor in private practice at Friendly City Psychology in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and a full-time Instructor in the Department of Psychology at James Madison University. My clinical background is rooted in high-acuity, complex systems — as Director of Mental Health at Middle River Regional Jail, where I oversaw clinical programming and managed multidisciplinary behavioral health staff, and as Jail Services Supervisor at Valley Community Services Board, where I worked at the intersection of community mental health and the criminal justice system.

That experience — providing and leading clinical services inside correctional and forensic environments — shaped how I think about clinical work, supervision, and what it actually takes to function effectively in systems that weren't built for the people inside them. It demands precision, ethical clarity, and the ability to hold the clinical frame under pressure. It gave me a clear picture of what good supervision looks like in practice, and what's missing when it isn't there.

Open Road exists because I saw a real gap: Residents in Counseling working in jails, prisons, Community Service Boards, crisis units, and other complex systems often don't have access to supervision that understands their environment. Generic supervision can leave those clinicians underprepared for the specific ethical, clinical, and personal challenges of high-acuity work. I built this practice to address that directly — with small groups, affordable rates, and supervision grounded in the kind of experience that actually translates.