I am here to help you with the creation of a fulfilled and purposeful life. I wholeheartedly offer my guidance, wisdom, experience, skills, humor and creativity to you and the unfolding of your life’s journey.

I am working with shamanic tools and techniques, to access the subconscious and work with subtle energies. I have trained in indigenous healing modalities and shamanic practices since 2006. I studied with renown teacher Jyoti (Jeneane Prevatt, PHD at the Center for Sacred Studies) and honor the deep wisdom transmitted through ritual and ceremony. I completed a training in 2014 to work with expanded states of consciousness and to apply ancient healing modalities within contemporary psychotherapy. 

I’m a graduate of the Hakomi Method, a method of somatic psychotherapy using mindfulness and direct experience as tools to support growth and healing. I also source from the Re-Creation of Self (R-CS), a direct way to access our inherently healthy and whole self. Eliciting the cooperation of our subconscious is essential for any healing to occur. For the past few years I am training with Wynn Tamura to practice a psychotherapeutic touch skillset, the Tamura Method. This method helps to access unconsciously held beliefs and to directly address old and ingrained patterns of unhelpful behavior.

In my own life I faced existential fear when I left a secure career as a Professor of Art to pursue my calling to focus on healing work. I chose to apply the skills I developed as a teacher and someone who sees, uplifts and tends creative, healing fires to my work in the healing arts. My sense of belonging, material security and self-esteem was challenged in this process of reorientation. Working with these challenges over time enabled me to connect with my deeper truth and heal old patterns of limiting beliefs.

I continue to expressed myself through visual art, music and authentic movement. I practice Tai Chi, Yoga, meditation, improvisational movement, I sing and play various instruments. Life is my greatest teacher. I lost my mother to cancer many years ago, worked through loss, separation and grief and gained new insights into the preciousness of life. I’m the father of two beautiful daughters who continuously show me what’s important in life.