I am a psychotherapist, leadership coach, contemplative, mental health activist — and probably a few other things I haven’t named yet. I live behind the redwood curtain, tending a second-growth redwood forest and building systems meant to outlive me.

My academic foundation is in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology from Sonoma State University — a place where the human potential movement never quite ended. While there, I worked as a researcher at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, studying transformations of consciousness and beginning to question what’s real, what’s performative, and what actually changes people.

I’ve spent over a decade in the mental health field, with formative years in a Windhorse community, where contemplative practice and community care met the raw realities of psychosis and extreme states. I hold an MA in Counseling from Lewis and Clark College, where I began the deeper work of reckoning with systemic oppression in my own body and worldview. My clinical foundation is in Gestalt Therapy, with ongoing training in Contemporary Reichian Somatic Therapy (not Reiki).

Beyond the therapy room, I work with leadership teams and organizations, helping groups learn to function like healthy ecosystems — where care, tension, and growth move through the collective rather than getting stuck in individuals. Alongside a group of brilliant coaches, I help leadership teams identify what’s really happening beneath the surface and learn to navigate complexity together.

I believe group process work is where real transformation lives — in what emerges between us, not just inside us. My team and I regularly engage in “playthrough” groups, where we let the system show us what it needs, and we follow the thread. That practice — trusting emergence, staying with the discomfort, and allowing the group field to move — informs all of my work.

These days, I’m focused on long timelines. I’m building the legal, social, and economic structures to support intergenerational forest stewardship — bringing back old growth over hundreds of years. It’s a project that asks the same question I ask of groups and organizations: How do we build systems that can hold complexity, endure through cycles, and leave something better behind?

My work — whether with individuals, groups, organizations, or a forest — is about tending what’s alive, trusting what emerges, and creating conditions for something beyond what we can imagine.

Enjoy.