Cleve is a Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC) with experience working with individuals and groups ages eighteen to eighty from a variety of cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. He has helped people facing a wide range of challenges to their mental health and wellbeing, including concerns like depression; difficulty adjusting; substance use; social anxiety; schizophrenia; trauma and recovery; identity and self-discovery; interpersonal conflict; and coping with long-term health changes. He endeavors to maintain a culturally-informed, trauma-informed, strengths-based practice.

Cleve believes in partnering with clients to explore difficult thoughts and emotions, find solutions that feel both approachable and meaningful, and ultimately build a richer life in whatever ways we can. To that end, he strives to build a warm, open, and non-judgmental environment for clients to share their lived experience. Every client is unique, with life and mind and background individual to them, and Cleve works to invite that individuality into sessions. He also recognizes that ruptures in the relationship can occur, and believes it is important to make space for those ruptures to be acknowledged and processed.

Clinically, Cleve uses a relational psychodynamic approach as his baseline, but incorporates a variety of other modalities as appropriate for each unique client, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing (MI) and parts work.

Cleve has learned that life can take us to difficult and unexpected places, and also that with effort and self-compassion we can make use of such turns of fate to learn and grow. He brings this belief in learning and growth to his work, aiming to help clients find ways to live richer lives even as he collaborates with them to build toward their own specific goals.