I come to this work with a relational sensibility and a deep respect for the complexity of being human. I’m less interested in fitting people into categories than in meeting them as they are—with curiosity, presence, and thoughtful conversation.

My work is shaped by the belief that healing isn’t mechanical. It happens through relationship, attentiveness, and the willingness to slow down enough to tell the truth about our lives. Therapy, for me, is not about fixing someone into an ideal version of themselves, but about creating space for clarity, flexibility, and deeper alignment over time.

I also come to this work with a wide range of lived experience. I’ve soldiered (infantry), walked a lot (roadsides and trails), runaway a few times (Army [I returned], a zen monastery, and more), street vended (random places, random things), social worked (foster youth), ex-patted (Colombia), studied literature and social work (The Evergreen State College, University of Washington), volunteered (ESL tutoring, Books to Prisoners, food banks), park rangered (Oly. Nat. Park), and fathered a son (being humbled daily).

I don’t bring these experiences as credentials, but as context. They influence how I listen, how I relate, and how seriously I take both suffering and beauty—the full range of what it means to be alive.

My hope is that therapy can be a place where you don’t have to perform, over-explain, or have everything figured out; a place to come and be as you are, to be met with curiosity and honesty, and to explore what it means to live more intentionally, insightfully, and integrated.