12/12/2025
ANNOUNCEMENT POST — “PUNK ROCK THERAPY LA → PUNK ROCK THERAPY NY”
Over the last eight years, Los Angeles has shaped me in ways I never could have imagined. This city gave me a second chance at life, community, purpose, healing, and the space to build Punk Rock Therapy LA into something real, raw, and meaningful. I’ve grown here. I’ve rebuilt myself here. I’ve made lifelong friends here. And this decision has not come easily.
After a lot of reflection, I’ve made the extremely difficult but deeply personal choice to leave Los Angeles and return to Rochester New York the place of my physical birth, my childhood, and the same streets and meetings where I first got sober, earned my GED, went to school, and completed my Master’s in Social Work. It’s the city where my story began, and it’s where I feel called to plant the next chapter of my life and my work.
Punk Rock Therapy LA will officially become Punk Rock Therapy NY.
I’ve already applied for my New York State LCSW, and I’ll be continuing all of my California credentials while still seeing my LA clients remotely. I am committed to every person I serve here, and nothing about our therapeutic work will change except my geographical location.
My move is planned for February 1st, and I’m stepping into this new adventure with gratitude, humility, and a full heart. LA has given me so much love, friendship, recovery, pain, growth, and a version of myself I’m proud to bring back home. To everyone here who has supported me, trusted me, challenged me, or helped me build Punk Rock Therapy LA into what it is today: thank you. I’ll miss you more than you know.
To my people in Rochester, Buffalo, and Syracuse, Punk Rock Therapy NY is coming.
Therapy for musicians, artists, creatives, punks, hardcore kids, goths, outsiders, and anyone rebuilding their life with honesty and grit. A space for sobriety, healing, authenticity, and transformation.
New city. Same mission. Same heart. Same no-BS punk rock approach to recovery and mental health.
Here’s to the next chapter.
Here’s to going home.
See you February 1st, Rochester.