About

Before I became a therapist, I was a musician, an artist, and a dedicated wanderer — someone who spent years living nomadically, moving through artistic communities in the US, Canada, and Europe, learning what it means to follow curiosity as a way of life.

That winding path eventually led me to Pacifica Graduate Institute, where I studied Counseling Psychology rooted in depth psychology and the Jungian tradition — the conviction that the psyche is symbolic, layered, and worth taking seriously on its own terms. My clinical training included years at a dual-diagnosis recovery center and a psychedelic-assisted therapy clinic. But what shaped me as a practitioner as much as any formal training were the years I spent sitting with Zen teachers, returning again and again to the Tao Te Ching, merging with the nondual teachings of Advaita Vedanta, and spending long enough in wild places to feel the intelligence of the Earth actually working on me. My work is as indebted to Robin Wall Kimmerer and Gary Snyder as it is to Peter Levine and Carl Jung.

I am trained in Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and Ecopsychology — but these are instruments, not a worldview. My worldview is better described as a deep reverence for the body's intelligence, the mystery of consciousness, and the irreducible wildness at the core of every human being. A friend once called this work "consciousness midwifery," and I've never found a better description. I hold the clinical and the sacred not as opposites, but as partners — and I'm aware that much of what modern psychology calls disorder, I understand as the body's brilliant, protective genius waiting to be met with curiosity rather than correction.

We are living in a time of profound upheaval and change, and I believe the world needs grounded, creative, courageously alive human beings more than it ever has. That urgency is part of why I do this work.

It's my experience that everyone is carrying more creativity and depth than they've ever been given room to express. That is the work: to clear the way for what is already there.

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Qualifications

Education

Pacifica Graduate Institute – Santa Barbara, CA – Counseling Psychology M.A. with emphasis in Depth Psychology
California State University San Marcos – San Marcos, CA – Psychological Science B.A.

Training & Experience

Dual-diagnosis recovery centers
Integrative mental health clinic incorporating ketamine treatment
Private practice settings

Professional Development

Somatic Experiencing Institute – SEP Training – 3-year experiential training program in the theory and practice of Somatic Experiencing, a method to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in the nervous system.

EMDRIA – EMDR Training – 50-hour experiential training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), an evidence-based psychotherapy treatment designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories and help rewrite core narratives.

Internal Family Systems Institute – IFS Online Circle – 6-month course on the IFS model, a transformative and trauma-informed approach engaging and healing "parts" of the psyche that have developed throughout the lifetime.

Zendo Project – Sitting and Integration Training – 10-hour psychedelic harm-reduction training program, crafted by leaders in psychedelic therapy and education.

Bio-Emotive Framework – Journey into the Emotional System – 7-week training on experiential method for healthy emotional processing and expression.

White Bison Inc. – Warrior Down Recovery Coach Training – Recovery support training program for clinicians working with Native Americans completing treatment or returning to the community from incarceration who wish to provide support to others experiencing the same.

Pacifica Graduate Institute – Advanced Ecopsychology Certificate Program – 12-week training in Ecopsychology, including evolution of the field, theory, practice, and therapeutic applications.

Spirit Rock Meditation Center – White and Awakening Together – 8-weekend workshop addressing social justice, white privilege, racial conditioning, and the work required to change personally and historically embedded paradigms of oppression.

Military Ally Awareness Program – Experiential Training – Structural competency program developed at San Diego State University to foster awareness and communication among active military, veteran, and civilian communities.