The F-ing Holidays: Grief, Growth, and Gentle Joy
When the world sparkles and you want to hide away, your feelings are valid. On boundaries, new traditions, and gentle joy.
Read on Soul SpaceI work with people who are tired of performing: at work, at home, in their own head. The ones holding everyone else up. We put it down here.
I'm a licensed clinical psychologist, Marine Corps Gulf War veteran, and trauma-trained clinician. Telehealth, private pay. Licensed in five states and PSYPACT-authorized across 40+.
I'm a licensed psychologist, Marine Corps Gulf War veteran, and the founder of Soul Works, a telehealth practice built on the belief that real healing happens when you feel genuinely seen.
I bring clinical rigor, cultural intelligence, and real talk to every session. You won't spend time explaining yourself here. The work starts from a place of shared understanding.
Whether you want one-to-one therapy, focused trauma work, or support for a team that's running on empty, there's a path here for you.
Growth-focused, culturally grounded telehealth therapy for adults navigating stress, trauma, burnout, and identity. For people ready to go deeper than survival mode.
Explore individual therapyA focused protocol, typically 1 to 5 sessions. ART works with how your brain holds painful memories, without requiring you to relive them in detail. Research-supported and surprisingly gentle.
How ART worksFor professionals running on empty. The Burnout Recovery Workshop helps you identify what's depleting you, reset your nervous system, and build a sustainable path forward.
See workshopsTherapy works best when it feels safe, real, and rooted in mutual trust. I work in metaphor and image, bank accounts, blueprints, foundations, the faucet you forgot was running, because that's how big, complicated things finally get small enough to hold. I won't rush you past a wound just to reach the insight, and I won't help you keep a pattern that's quietly wearing you down.
I'll help put words to what you've been carrying, gently and out loud. Sometimes that means naming something you've held quietly for a long time, and setting down the part that was never yours to hold in the first place.
You'll get honesty here, not just comfort. I won't leave a stuck place unnamed or soften something true to keep the hour easy, because you deserve more than to feel better for fifty minutes. You deserve to actually heal.
After most sessions, you'll receive a guide written for exactly one person: you. Your words, your decisions, a practice that fits how your nervous system actually works. Signed, Dr. Crabb.
“Conditional love is just a check that's always going to bounce.”
“Revoke some PIN numbers.”
“Forgiveness is putting it down. It is not the door reopening.”
“You can be the safe place without becoming the solution.”
I bring warmth, clinical depth, and cultural honesty to main stages, leadership teams, conferences, and media. I've spoken to audiences of 650+ and appeared on television more than nine times.
From burnout recovery to trauma, self-worth, and resilience, I turn the science of healing into something a room can actually use.
Messy moments, cultural truths, and life lessons straight from the therapy couch.
When the world sparkles and you want to hide away, your feelings are valid. On boundaries, new traditions, and gentle joy.
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