Josh is passionate about education and helping people to discover more meaningful, fulfilling lives. He teaches Ancient Greek, Latin, and Classical Mythology at The University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in Ancient Philosophy and Plato.

After IFS helped him to heal from severe mental and emotional pain in a way that no other therapeutic modality did, he began an intense and lasting journey of curiosity and education in the method. Josh does not diagnose or evaluate mental disorders. He has, however, helped people with trauma, depression, anxiety, hallucinations, dissociation, addiction and other problems both severe and seemingly more mundane.

Although Josh follows IFS procedures, his philosophical attitude of the love of wisdom and his grounding in a rich humanistic tradition informs his approach. We do not fully know our hearts and minds. What we don’t know can sometimes cost us. There is value in coming to know ourselves more deeply, not just intellectually, but in a manner that makes sense to our lives. We can do this through unencumbered speech, a relationship with another person who listens to us in a unique way, and the somatic awareness of and compassion toward the manifold parts of ourselves.

He is grateful to be able to put his learning to work in perhaps the most sublime arena of meaning in the cosmos: the human condition.