I was born and raised in rural Utah, where life was built around hard work, long days, and learning how to push through challenges. I spent much of my early life moving pipe, hauling hay, and learning how to work hard physically — but like many people, I did not fully understand how to work through my internal emotional world.

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For years, I struggled with anxiety, isolation, overthinking, and seeking validation outside of myself. Those experiences eventually led me into a deeper journey of healing, faith, emotional growth, and understanding how the mind, nervous system, relationships, and spiritual life all interact together.

 

Today, I consider it a sacred responsibility to help people move toward greater healing, emotional integration, and hope.

 

As Founder and Clinical Director of Ascend Counseling Clinic, Joseph oversees the client experience and provides advanced supervision and clinical guidance to the Ascend team. He is passionate about building a counseling clinic grounded in clinical excellence, compassion, ethical care, and meaningful healing.

 

Joseph believes God is our ultimate source of help and healing. His mission is to help individuals and families build greater peace, connection, and strength within their homes as they work to overcome the mountains and challenges in their lives. He wants every person who walks through Ascend’s doors to know they are not alone.

 

Through trauma-informed and evidence-based approaches such as Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and Internal Family Systems (IFS), Joseph helps guide the clinical vision of Ascend toward therapies that support lasting emotional healing and change. His work emphasizes understanding how the nervous system, relationships, emotional experiences, and life patterns shape the way people experience themselves and the world around them.

 

His vision is to help people increase their capacity to remain present with God, themselves, others, and truth under emotional pressure.

 

Whether through counseling, supervision, or formation work, Joseph’s hope is that people come to understand they are not broken beyond repair, they are not alone, and meaningful healing and transformation are possible.

 

He believes that with truth, grace, support, and willingness, people can grow into lives marked by greater peace, integrity, emotional resilience, connection, and wholehearted living.