Dave Wallace, MS, MA, AMFT

People have always trusted me to analyze problems and advise solutions. I had a difficult childhood, with food instability and religious punishments which gave me a limp and separated rib by age 10. I couldn’t rely on anyone, so I had to strategize ways to stay safe. Other people came to rely on my insight too. I graduated with honors and attended college on scholarship. I served as a juvenile treatment counselor, a health coach, and a sex-ed teacher. Then I changed careers to compose music in Hollywood and worked on award-winning projects. Great, right? Privately, I suffered. I chose relationships poorly and felt like an imposter with too few resources to meet the demands of others. So I started over. I now have an MS in Organizational Psychology (with honors) and an MA in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine (also with honors). I have extensive experience with men, boys, and professional women. I’ve worked with entrepreneurs, artists, doctors, lawyers, principals, and veterans. I understand career transition, business challenges, leadership, performance, stress, relationship conflict, legal problems, spiritual confusion, crises, trauma, depression, and anxiety. Much of my work focuses on overcoming obstacles with the people we interact with daily, our internal beliefs, and problems with those we love. Whatever you’re facing, we can face it together.