Healing is rarely about fixing what is broken. More often, it begins by understanding the story your mind, body, and nervous system have been trying to tell all along.

​

My work exists at the intersection of medicine, neuroscience, trauma, and yoga philosophy. While my medical training taught me how to diagnose and treat illness, my own life taught me something equally important: healing is rarely linear, and people are always more than their symptoms.

​

My perspective has been shaped not only through years of practicing medicine but also through navigating trauma, abuse, neglect, abandonment, concussions, career-ending athletic injuries, and a life-threatening eating disorder. These experiences did not define me, but they transformed the way I care for others. They taught me that resilience is not about becoming stronger than our pain—it is about learning to understand it with curiosity, compassion, and honesty.

​

Throughout my training, I was taught that physicians should maintain professional distance. Over time, I realized that authentic healing often begins with authentic human connection. My goal has never been to have all the answers, but to create a space where people feel safe enough to ask better questions about themselves.

​

Whether I'm working with an athlete recovering from injury, someone navigating trauma, an individual struggling with an eating disorder, or a person simply feeling disconnected from themselves, my approach remains the same: meet people exactly where they are. Together, we explore not only what is happening in the body, but why it may be happening, integrating evidence-based medicine with nervous system science, psychology, mindfulness, movement, and yoga philosophy.

​

I believe healing happens when we stop separating the body from the mind, the nervous system from our relationships, or modern medicine from ancient wisdom. My role is not simply to treat symptoms, but to help people better understand themselves—because understanding creates choice, and choice creates the possibility for lasting change.

​

Outside of medicine, you'll usually find me practicing yoga somewhere in the world where I don't speak the language, recording an episode of the DocDusty Podcast, reading about neuroscience or philosophy, dancing whenever the opportunity presents itself, or spending time with my beloved dog, Mr. Pappy Van Winkle. Curiosity has become one of my greatest teachers, and I believe every conversation, every journey, and every challenge has something to teach us about ourselves.

​

This one beautiful life is not about becoming someone else. It's about remembering who you were before the world told you who you had to be.