About Michael

I come to this work with a grounded, 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 honest 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 been many things—an athlete, an infantry soldier, a hitchhiker and rustic traveler, a runaway monk, a street vendor, a mentor to foster youth, a long-term expat, a volunteer ESL tutor in local jails, a backcountry park ranger, and a full-time father. I’ve known steadiness and upheaval, clarity and confusion, hope and disappointment.

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 as you are, to be met with care and honesty, and to explore what it might mean to live more fully and truthfully from here.