About Bobby
Peer support to help you handle this, and whatever's next.
CPRS Certified · RI Board #202153
Free 30-min call. No pitch.

I used to be a screw-up: untreated mental health, drugs, a couple run-ins with the law, the whole thing. I joined the Army thinking it would fix me. It didn't. I came home carrying more than I left with, and spent close to a decade after that just trying to find my footing.
It took my wife telling me to get help, or she was done with me, to actually get help. I got diagnosed, got on the right medication, built a real foundation for the first time, then went after the research like a man possessed. My therapist eventually told me, "Bobby, sounds like you need a job for the soul." I've been working with families ever since, starting in an ABA clinical setting, then youth care counseling in a juvenile justice placement, then intensive in-home family work, and now parenting support full-time.
I've never been happier. I tell people I've never been closer. Closer to what? Closer to the man I want to be, living the life I want to live.
None of that makes me your fix. It's what lets me sit across from you and actually get it. If I can turn this around, anyone can.
Free 30-min call. No pitch.
The formal part
Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS)
Rhode Island Certification Board · ID 202153
Current role
Peer Parent Consultant
Training
- Motivational Interviewing
- Youth Mental Health First Aid (national certification)
- Trauma-informed care
- Ethical Decision-Making for Peers (RICARES, 6.0 CEU)
- Educational advocacy: IEPs, 504 plans, IDEA
- Working with gender diverse and LGBTQ+ youth and families
- Mandated reporter · CPR/First Aid
Prior
U.S. Army, Signals Intelligence Analyst (35N), Sergeant · Afghanistan. Honorable discharge, 2012.
Also
Author, "Consolidating Rhode Island's Child Welfare Service Array," an independent policy proposal submitted to Rhode Island state stakeholders, March 2026.