John has a private practice in Chapel Hill, NC as a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT), AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and Certified DBT Clinician (DBT-Linehan Board of Certification). He completed DBT Intensive training and is on the Leadership Team of Triangle Area Dialectical Therapy (founded by Meggan Moorhead and Norma Safransky). He has taught DBT Skills Training Groups (beg 1997), DBT Family Skills Training (beg 2004), and DBT Skills for Couples (beg 2008), as well as NCAMFT Pre-Conference Institutes. He has led workshops in North Carolina and in New York drawing on skills from DBT, ACT, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Behavioral Activation and Buddhist Psychology. 

​John has provided Family Therapy Supervision and Training Groups as an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, has taught Family Therapy at North Carolina Central University School of Education and worked at a community mental health center in rural North Carolina until 2005. Prior to that, he was the Assistant Director of a community counseling center in San Francisco. The North Carolina Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Triangle Area DBT, and Orange-Person-Chatham Area Program have recognized him for his contributions to the profession.