About Adam: Adam went to Utah (BS, psychology; BA, Japanese), Gonzaga (MA, counseling), Indiana (PhD, counseling psychology), and Northwestern (post-doc, couple & family therapy)… and he found his work home at CAPS and in the Counseling Psychology doctoral program at BYU. Adam enjoys facilitating therapeutic conversations about difficult topics like parenting and politics and sexual health and religion. Adam likes movies, running, basketball, practicing jazz piano (both to enjoy and to confront perfectionism), and travel. Adam and his wife Natalie have two kids, and they in turn have two cats (both Siberians), who in turn have two chinchillas.
Clinical Interests:
- Sex therapy (e.g., desire discrepancy in marriage, satisfaction, sexual dysfunctions, sexual behaviors that feel out of control/OCSB)
- Couple therapy (e.g., emotionally focused therapy/EFT)
- Discernment Counseling: Consultation for marriages in which one or both partners are considering divorce, but haven’t yet made the decision
- Spirituality, religion-related concerns, mixed-faith marriages
- Parenting (e.g., transition to parenthood, attachment-based parenting/Circle of Security)