Get to know me

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

First sessions are ideally a friendly and casual exploration of the issues or problems that you are seeking assistance with. Acknowledging the inevitable strangeness and riskiness that anyone works through just to get to that first session -- because it takes courage to trust a stranger, right? It takes courage to do self-work, to look inside; it takes courage to change. So my job is to listen to you, to attend, to pay attention, and maybe to inquire, wonder together, reflect on what I hear, summarize, and keep listening, reflecting, summarizing until you are convinced that I get you -- at least get enough to get to the next session, because I will also need to understand some broad contours of your background, your life, and the circumstances within which we will both be working, and that usually takes longer than just one session.

The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions

Having lived and travelled around the world, I am comfortable with a wide variety of people and faith traditions, and want anyone in need to feel completely at ease and comfortable in my care and practice. Having been around a few blocks, you can count on my empathetic and honest dialogue within a broadly humanistic and person-centered framework.

The clients I'm best positioned to serve

LGBTQI (with some exception, see below); military, ex-military, police, or security; government, non-profit or public service; artists, activists (social justice-, political-, eco-, & peace-activists); ex-pats & international development; religiously discordant families/couples, religious conflict, de-conversion, & religious abuse; anyone experiencing existential crisis, loss of meaning in life, spiritual emergency, or moral injury.