Max is a Resident in Counseling for Virginia, and a licensed graduate professional counselor (LGPC) for Maryland. They hold a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Max provides virtual services to adults of all ages, parents and teens. Max is passionate about providing each client with individualized care that is affirming, non-pathologizing, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed.
Before residency, Max spent four years providing community and home-based services to individuals and families with a range of backgrounds and presenting needs, including autism, persistent drive for autonomy (PDA), ADHD, anxiety, depression, PTSD, borderline personality, systematic oppression, chronic illness, internalized fatphobia, grief, suicidality, self-harm, substance use, and religious/spiritual reconstruction.
Max’s main passion and clinical focus is supporting clients with their neurodivergence and LGBTQIA+ related needs. Max’s open-minded perspective, extensive clinical training, and lived experience as an autistic person informs their warm, empathetic understanding for others regardless of background, identity, or neurotype. Max believes that their role as a therapist is to respect clients as the experts of themselves. Max joins their clients so they can feel seen while collaboratively exploring emotions, core beliefs, unmet needs, and physiological responses. Because there is no “one-size-fits-all” in therapy, Max tailors their approach to suit unique goals and needs, drawing from diverse perspectives and modalities, especially informed by internal family systems (IFS), person-centered therapy, neurodiversity-affirmative therapy and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
Max sees it as an honor and privilege to be present with others, sharing a vulnerable experience in the therapeutic relationship. Outside of counseling, they enjoy community care, video games, cartoons, art and crafts, yoga, reading, earth-based spirituality, good food, and watching their two cats ruin their apartment.
Max works under the supervision of Laura Morlok, LCPC, LPC, RPT-S and Kat Devereax, LPC.
