Dear Committee,
Andrew is a healer. His superpower is in how he sees the best in people
even when they are showing their worst. He sees and understands
symptoms through an attachment-based, systemic trauma-informed lens.
His gracefulness in these regards cultivates safety while at the same time
inspires those in his presence to do the same… to grow and stretch
themselves. He focuses on working collaboratively with the whole system,
while at the same time partnering primarily with caregivers to promote
their leadership. He is so effective at this because of how gracefully he
applies his belief… that people always have more than they show… to each
family member starting with the caregivers.
Andrew embraces his village of colleagues, and both seeks and provides
support. He is vocal and active with his peers in eliciting and offering
feedback. He assertively and courageously pursues ongoing growth as an
ESFT clinician.
He deeply trusts himself, the ESFT convictions and his connections with his
village of support when facing unknowns and challenges that seem
impossible. Our PHMC FBS leadership team has intentionally assigned
Andrew to clients with extremely high-risk challenging NIPs given our
confidence in him, and he has willingly and enthusiastically embraced
these assignments professing his compassion, trust and commitment to
his own growth.
I have been supervising, training and witnessing Family Based Therapists
in their practice of ESFT for two decades. In my witnessing, there are only
a very few that match the depth of Andrew’s embracing, practicing and
promoting the values and convictions of ESFT.
Sincerely,
Bill Mayer, LMFT
Program Director, PHMC
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