I hope to contribute both sides of this — the clinical understanding from 23 years in medicine and psychiatry, and the lived experience of 18 years sober from opioids and 7 months sober from alcohol. I know what it's like to be in the room as the doctor, and what it's like to be the one who needed help. I want to offer people a space where they don't have to explain themselves twice. What I hope to gain is connection — the kind that doesn't come from a consultation room. Hosting these groups keeps me honest about my own recovery, and every person who shows up teaches me something I couldn't have learned any other way.

I came to ShareWell to be the person I never had when I started using drugs — someone who understood without judging, who’d been in the dark himself and could sit with me in it rather than talk down to me from outside it. 23 years of treating patients taught me the clinical side of addiction and psychiatry. But 18 years sober from opioids and 7 months sober from alcohol taught me the rest — what it actually costs, and what it takes to come back from it. I host these groups because connection is what got me through, and I want to be that for someone else.