Ed has worked with adolescents and their families for more than 20 years. Starting as a youth pastor in 1997, Ed now works with young people and their families as a Licensed Professional Counselor (Colorado) and is currently (8-2021) pursuing Licensure in Florida as Licensed Mental Health Counselor. He has been working specifically with at-risk teens and adolescents as a therapist since 2006. He has experience working with kids in the juvenile justice system, foster care, child protection, and coaching parents through co-parenting relationships. Ed is a trauma-informed therapist, as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Supervisor. He takes a strengths based approach to therapy, is skilled in motivational interviewing, conflict resolution, relapse prevention/addiction work, and has also been qualified as an Informed Supervisor for SOMB clients. He utilizes Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a TF-CBT Supervisor, Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, and takes a Systems approach to intervention work with families and larger support systems. He also does Foster Parent Consultation, helping foster families understand how to most effectively parent kids that have been through traumatic situations. 

He has training and experience in crisis intervention, motivational interviewing, individual trauma work, working with families to help them understand trauma related behavior, helping families establish co-parenting relationships, work with high conflict situations, therapeutic mediation, safety planning, training in play therapy, and more. Ed started his private practice focused on In-Home intervention services but now does all virtual intervention. He maintains a 24-7 on-call practice for his clients.