Grounded in both nursing and clinical social work, he is a Doctor of Nursing Practice and board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) with more than 15 years of experience delivering psychiatric care across acute, outpatient, correctional, residential, and long-term care settings. His work includes comprehensive psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, psychopharmacologic management, and psychotherapy for child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations. He has frequently served as the sole attending psychiatric provider responsible for all aspects of patient care from admission through discharge, managing complex behavioral health cases in high-acuity environments including emergency departments, inpatient psychiatric units, correctional facilities, and crisis stabilization settings.

A significant portion of his practice involves working with high-risk and medically complex populations, where timely psychiatric assessment and intervention are critical. In these roles, he has overseen crisis stabilization, coordinated multidisciplinary treatment planning, managed psychopharmacology regimens, and provided psychiatric care through both in-person and telepsychiatry services across multiple facilities. Earlier in his career, he worked in clinical social work, psychiatric nursing, behavioral health consultation, and treatment foster care settings, providing psychotherapy, biopsychosocial assessments, utilization review, discharge planning, and behavioral health support services for children, adolescents, adults, and families.

Complementing his clinical work, he remains actively involved in academic nursing education as a college associate professor and former assistant professor, providing graduate-level instruction, clinical supervision, and mentoring for psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and Doctor of Nursing Practice students. His dual background as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker further supports comprehensive behavioral health evaluation and care planning. He has approximately 8 years of expert witness experience involving psychiatric care, standards of practice, and behavioral health treatment across institutional settings. His professional memberships include the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, the New Mexico Nurse Practitioner Council, and the International Society of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses. His scholarly activities also include peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, media appearances, and course development involving psychiatric treatment, trauma, addiction stigma, geriatric mental health, and behavioral healthcare delivery.