I’m Asher
My work is shaped by walking alongside people through moments of transition, loss, change, and becoming.
You may be here because something in life has changed or needs to change.
Perhaps anxiety has grown louder. Maybe grief, illness, burnout, depression, or relationship strain has chifted the ground beneath you. Or maybe nothing is dramatically wrong—-yet life feels heavier, flatter, or harder to inhabit than it once did.
Many people reach out at moments like these: when coping strategies stop working, when identity, begins to shift, or when something inside quietly asks for attention.
Healing happens at life’s thresholds.
If you’ve found yourself here, you don’t have to figure it all out alone. I’m happy to journey with you.
My Approach
I’m Asher, a dual board-certified psychiatric and palliative care nurse practitioner providing psychotherapy and medication care for people moving through anxiety, trauma, grief, identity transitions, serious illness, and major life change.
My work sits at the threshold of psychiatric care and psychotherapy.
Medication can help stabilize suffering when the nervous system becomes overwhelmed. Therapy helps us understand the meaning, history, and patterns beneath that suffering.
Both matter. Neither replaces the other.
Rather than treating diagnosis in isolation, I work collaboratively with people to understand the full context of their lives —psychological, relational, medical, cultural, and spiritual.
Care here is grounded, compassionate, and trust worthy.
This work matters to me.
Much of my professional life has been spent in hospice & palliative care, accompanying people and families facing profound uncertainty, loss, and transition.
Working closely with individuals confronting mortality changes how one understands mental health, it reveals how deeply anxiety, depression, identity, purpose, and relationship are intertwined with the realities of being human.
Again and again, I witnessed something important:
People suffer less when they feel seen—not analyzed, rushed, or reduced to symptoms and medical jargon.
This perspective continues to shape how I practice psychiatric mental health care today.
My lived experience gives meaning to this work.
As a gay man, I know what it means to move through processes of identity, belonging, and self-acceptance. Earlier in life, I encountered messages — sometimes explicit, sometimes subtle — suggesting that being fully myself made me somehow unworthy or unlovable.
Healing required learning to separate inherited shame from authentic identity, and discovering that psychological and spiritual growth often begin where fear and self-protection once lived.
Those experiences deepen my commitment to creating space where people do not need to hide parts of themselves in order to receive care.
You are welcome as a whole person.
Reaching out for mental health support can feel vulnerable — especially for thoughtful, capable people accustomed to managing things on their own.
Many people I serve are caregivers, helpers, professionals, healers, and creatives—people who have spent years supporting others before allowing space for their own needs.
My role is not to fix you. I create a space where complexity is welcome, insight can emerge, and meaningful change becomes possible.