A native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Rob spent half of his life in the Western United States. Rob has more than eight years experience working with adolescents and teens in wilderness and residential therapeutic settings.

 

 

             Rob holds a Master’s of Science in Social Work (MSSW) from The University of Texas at Austin, and a
      BSW from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. His clinical training and focus includes the neurobiological connections of Attachment Theory and Psychoanalytic Diagnosis. He has also trained extensively in Personality, Identity and Social Psychology, as well as Grief and Loss, Family Systems, and Child and Adolescent Therapy. Rob’s interest in wilderness therapy began over a decade ago when he took a position with a therapeutic wilderness program based in Utah, ultimately becoming the longest tenured mentoring field staff in the program’s history. Rob then moved on to developing a curriculum for chemical use and abuse by adolescents for a residential treatment program also based in Utah. Rob has been at Trails Carolina for two years now. He believes the Trails program design is highly effective at maturing, socializing, and developing a sustainable foundation of self-esteem for adolescents. Rob has traveled internationally as well as throughout the United States and utilizes those experiences in his building of rapport. Among Rob’s various interests, currently he is improving his tennis game.


‘The roots of my intrigue in wilderness therapy are clearly in the adventures I had in the woods of Maine during my summers as a young boy; where I learned that people are their best when solidarity is in their thoughts. I learned the benefits that the solace of nature can provide at an early age and it has shaped me. That notion has given me the guidance that influenced me in my academic pursuits as well as my travels.’

 

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