Aaron's ambitions always blended research, practice, and education. During their master's program, Aaron entered into a research project with Dr. Amy Reynolds, witnessing the value of research in real time. After two years of practice, Aaron started as an adjunct instructor at University of Buffalo in 2022, quickly discovering their passion for education. Aaron achieves strong outcomes in teaching evaluations as the instructor of record, in classes like helping skills (prepracticum), psychopathology, and internship. Integrating social justice and constructivist teaching strategies, Aaron believes that counselors should be compassionate, empathetic, and deeply attuned to the systems that surround the people counselors help. Working under Dr. Kristina DePue as a PhD student at the University of Nevada, Reno, Aaron acts as a teaching assistant and as a clinical coordinator in the Downing Counseling Clinic. Serving as an on-site supervisor, Aaron provides weekly supervision using evidence-based models like Bernard's (1979) discrimination model. Aaron also provides regular feedback and training on clinical documentation, performing semesterly audits on best practices in treatment plans, notes, and other documentation. Aaron firmly believes that strong counselors can be grown by both technique and from practices that build the self-as-counselor. Using mindfulness and regular classroom assessment techniques, Aaron gives students the space to genuinely develop self-care as a form of ethical practice. Aaron is seeking to begin a faculty appointment in Fall 2027.