About Patrick

Patrick is a licensed psychotherapist. He holds a master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. He also has an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree in Economics and Psychology also from Vanderbilt University.

Patrick has a particular interest in combining the core teachings and practices of mindfulness and spirituality with more Western traditional approaches to therapy, and often incorporates Internal Family Systems therapy into his work with folks. Patrick offers a unique and accessible approach to Nashville therapy, co-creating and cultivating a non-judgmental and compassionate space with each individual. 

Mindfulness & Psychotherapy Training

After completing his graduate degree in 2012, Patrick headed out west to Northern California to study and practice mindfulness meditation, and to explore the intersection of spirituality and psychotherapy. Patrick worked as an outpatient therapist at a mindfulness based clinic, called Middle Way Health, supervised by Stephen Bryant Walker, LMFT (Lama Yeshe Jinpa). He also worked with New Dawn Recovery Treatment Centers. There he was supervised by psychologist, June Ruse, Psy.D., as a residential and outpatient therapist, and initiated New Dawn’s mindfulness and recovery program.

While in California, Patrick lived in an intentional yoga community in Sacramento for a year, called Lotus Garden Meditation Center. He completed residential training retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County, and a residential training program at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center with teacher Tenshin Roshi in the Soto/Rinzai Zen White Plum lineage. Patrick returned to Nashville in 2014, where he established Mindful Nashville as a way to share his experiences with the Nashville therapy community. Patrick completed a mindfulness facilitator training program for healthcare professionals at Vanderbilt Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in 2017. He went on to complete a 2-year Buddhist Teacher Training program through Heartwood Refuge Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina in May 2020. Patrick also completed Level-1 IFS training in Internal Family Systems therapy in 2021, and considers this to be a way of embodying mindfulness or spiritual based therapy.