About Me

Throughout my life I have held three abiding preoccupations: Nature, Spirituality, and the Mind. I have learned, and reflected, and sought refuge in these things over the course of my own decades-long healing journey. It is my belief that the healing journey is less about relieving pain than about finding our own sense of Home. And whenever we find ourselves lost, Nature, Spirituality, and the Mind are always there to direct us if we'll just tune in. 

 

My own path has often guided me in strange and unexpected directions. I've felt as though I'm walking an enormous labyrinth through time. Nowhere has this been more true than in my professional journey. As a very young child I loved nature and animals above all else. So once I got to college it seemed logical to pursue an environmental biology degree. However, after completing three years of courses--including a year spent in Australia studying ecology--I felt something vital was still missing. I searched desperately until I came to accept that my love of nature would never be a professional one. 

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I had hoped my year in Australia would give me an edge for grad school applications; instead, it proved to be a spiritual quest filled with strange and mystical experiences that ignited my healing journey. Although I'd been in therapy previously, I started again with different reasons--not to change the world or other people, nor to stop the parade of losses, but to grieve the losses I'd already incurred and deal with the fact that I wasn't who I wished to be. Being an ocean away from home, I came to realize how much pain and turmoil I carried around daily. But my pain slowly transformed, and I found myself both enlightened and fascinated. I changed my major to psychology and reoriented my course to align with my healing journey.

 

In 2006 I moved to Pasadena, CA to enroll at the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary, which enabled me to study spirituality, theology, philosophy, and ethics alongside clinical psychology. I was also part of a theoretical lab where we learned everything from how to investigate psychological issues from societal, systemic, and historic perspectives to investigating the psychology of mystical experiences. It felt like home.

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However, my final year of clinical training took me all the way to Brooklyn, NY where I interned at Kings County Hospital Center, completing rotations in forensic psychology at the Brooklyn Superior Court and learning Applied Behavioral Analysis consultation for preventing violence on inpatient psych units. The next big change occured when I accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Behavioral Health and Wellness Program, where I learned program evaluation and mental health administration. I spent the next ten years in clinic and hospital environments where I provided long-term therapy and psychological evaluations for clinically complex cases. The time I spent with my patients was deeply formative, and yet there was so much more I hoped to do and so much more I cared about that didn't seem to fit inside these institutional environments. 

 

Then, in July of 2021, I had a life-altering mystical experience facilitated by psychedelics in the desert outside of Albuquerque, NM. During that time I remembered the most vital thing...myself. The years had left me feeling fragmented and stretched, but the journey that night recollected the bond I have with Nature, and I also felt that Nature remembered me. I remembered my own breath, my own Spirit, my own vital force, and saw how Spirit expands its concentric circles everywhere, always. And most significantly, for the first time in my life, I saw my own Mind without pathology, without blemish, without judgment. I was able to truly and quietly love myself.

 

So here I am. I practice my own form of healing, drawing from the knowledge and experiences that I've stockpiled from my healing journey for more than twenty years. I have treated and seen nearly everthing at this point. I have a warm and comfortable familiarity with the entire human condition, most importantly the things we fear and call "Shadow". I am completely comfortable serving as your guide and companion during your own healing journey. So reach out and lets find out together where you might need to go next. 

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