RESEARCH

Clinical Research and Ongoing Work

Grounded in evidence-based practice

This work brings together clinical practice, structured inquiry, and real-world application, with a focus on outcomes that support both care and sustainability.

Focused on clinical outcomes, structure, and the conditions that allow

sustainable care.

INTRODUCTION

Where practice meets inquiry.

Research has always sat alongside my clinical and operational work. The questions I bring to my doctoral research are the same ones I have spent twenty years answering inside practices and clinics: what conditions allow good clinical work to continue, what structures support it, and where the field's assumptions about effort, outcomes, and sustainability begin to break down.

I do not separate practice from inquiry. The clinical setting is where the questions are formed, and the research is where I test them with care. What I publish, write, and study is informed by the people I have served, the teams I have led, and the structural patterns I have watched repeat across sectors and countries.

Research matters in clinical and healthcare settings because the field continues to inherit decisions made in its absence. Better evidence, more carefully gathered, is part of the responsibility I carry as a clinician.

DOCTORAL RESEARCH

My research examines the efficacy of equine-assisted therapy for youth experiencing anxiety.

The work matters because equine-assisted therapy is increasingly used as a clinical modality, and the evidence base supporting it has not kept pace with the practice. Practitioners and referring clinicians need clearer findings on outcomes, mechanisms, and the conditions under which the modality works best.

My contribution sits in that gap. I am working to produce more carefully designed evidence about how equine-assisted therapy affects anxious youth, what specifically about the modality drives change, and what this should mean for clinical decision-making, training standards, and program design in the field.

STATUS

PhD Candidate

FIELD

Social Work

POPULATION

Youth with anxiety

AREAS OF CLINICAL INTEREST

Where my reading and inquiry are

currently focused.

01

Equine-assited Therapy

A structural framework for understanding why burnout persists in clinical and healthcare settings despite individual interventions and well-intentioned efforts to address it.

02

Youth mental health and anxiety

Clear language for identifying operational problems that remain visible but unspoken within clinical and healthcare organizations over time.

03

Trauma-informed care

A clear distinction between expertise and leadership, and how to develop both without abandoning the integrity of clinical work.

04

Clinical systems and structure

Practical criteria for evaluating ethical growth, including what to protect, what to question, and what to refuse as organizations expand.

05

Burnout in healthcare professionals

Burnout as a structural and organizational problem, distinct from the prevailing framing as an individual character or coping issue.

06

The Structure Behind Sustainable Care

A different understanding of systems, documentation, and boundaries as the architecture that supports ethical, sustainable, and consistent care.

WRITING & PUBLICATION

Published work, in-progress writing,

and ongoing thought.

Published Work

Clinical and organizational writing across peer-reviewed and professional publications, focused on the intersection of clinical leadership and organizational design.

In-Progress Writing

• Burnout as a Structural Issue: How systems design creates or prevents chronic depletion in healthcare work

• Clinical Leadership and Decision-Making: Frameworks for leaders transitioning from clinician to organizational steward

• Scaling Without Sacrifice: How ethical growth operates in service-based organizations

• Somatic Work and Organizational Change: What embodied modalities teach us about systems transformation

Thought Leadership Topics

Clinical practice structure • Leadership transitions in healthcare • Sustainable clinical organizations • Trauma-informed systems • The integration of clinical depth and operational clarity

APPROACH

An approach grounded in practice.

My approach to research is shaped by twenty years of clinical work and the operational responsibility of running practices. I do not believe theory and practice belong in separate rooms.

The questions worth asking, in my view, are the ones that arrive in the clinic and the ones that follow you home from it. The methods worth using are the ones that respect both the rigor of the discipline and the texture of the lives the work is meant to serve.

I value research that is careful, transparent about its limits, and oriented toward real-world application, the kind of evidence that can change a clinical decision, a program design, or a policy without losing fidelity to what it actually showed.