The founder of Awaken360, Inc., a nonprofit organization seeking to empower youth and families who have been held captive by depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicidal ideations, I have worked for more than eight years with struggling youth and their families from all across the country to find hope and healing. As a licensed professional counselor with a focus on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and biblically based principles, I have found that it is only this combination that can truly allow those imprisoned in their own mind to find freedom. The same proven techniques used in a residential treatment center working with hundreds of different youth and their families, have been combined into my workbook, Waging War: A Christian's Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook, from which I teach throughout my community to bring guidance and freedom to families and youth.