In our first session together, here's what you can expect

In our first few sessions, you can expect a thoughtful, collaborative exploration of what brings you to therapy and what you hope to change. I recognize that beginning therapy takes courage, especially when trust, worldview, or identity have been shaken. Early sessions focus on helping you feel understood, clarifying goals, and developing a shared framework for the work ahead. Progress is often noticeable within the first several sessions as we establish direction and momentum.

The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions

My practice is unique because it integrates clinical rigor with philosophical, cultural, and contemplative depth. Having lived and worked internationally, taught psychology and comparative religious studies at the university level, and practiced extensively in both academic and clinical settings, I am comfortable working with complexity, ambiguity, and deeply held beliefs. Clients often appreciate that I can engage both emotional experience and intellectual reflection without reducing either. I help by offering an integrative, person-centered approach that combines existential psychotherapy with evidence-based methods such as ACT, CBT, DBT, brief psychodynamic, solution-focused, and mindfulness-based therapies. My work emphasizes meaning, motivation, values, and lived experience, while remaining practical and goal-oriented. I also provide psychedelic integration and integration of non-ordinary experiences, and I am trained to offer ketamine-assisted therapy (KAT) in collaboration with a prescribing psychiatrist through the Journey Clinical platform. I am passionate about this work because I believe therapy is not only about symptom relief, but about helping people reclaim agency, meaning, and coherence in their lives. Whether you are navigating burnout, disillusionment, moral conflict, or a major life transition, my goal is to support you in developing clarity, resilience, and a way forward that feels authentic and sustainable.

The clients I'm best positioned to serve

I specialize in working with adults and older adolescents who are struggling with existential distress, loss of meaning, moral injury, or identity transitions. Many of the people I work with feel disoriented or stuck despite being thoughtful, capable, or outwardly high-functioning. I also have particular experience supporting veterans, active-duty military, first responders, public service professionals, and activists (political, social, environmental, and technology-focused), as well as individuals recovering from religious or spiritual abuse, deconversion, or spiritual crisis.