Your pain is ordinary, so your healing will be as well.

In the words of Zen master Ryokan, 'In this lifetime, sooner or later, we realize there is neither better nor worse, so it’s better if we embrace life's natural flow and find meaning in its simplicity.’

We all struggle with unhelpful patterns or relationships until we're prepared to face ourselves honestly. Pursuing personal growth, self-understanding, and well-being takes real courage. Issues like anxiety, depression, or complex transitions often persist because we resist what we genuinely need. Despite our avoidance, healing and transformation are always within reach, ready for us to embrace. We quickly realize that the answers we seek are already there, and change can be simple. When we’re sincere, our resilience, connections, and values come to life—and we can be more accessible and original in our lives.

I practice humanistic psychotherapy, informed by my training in Zen Buddhism and studies in consciousness, neurobiology, and psychopharmacology. I strive to foster a therapeutic environment where clients learn to embrace their thoughts and feelings without judgment, better comply with their medications, and feel more confident about their care. I'm dedicated to helping others find their way on their terms. I am a business advisor, grief counselor, mentor, and fellow traveler.

I work with my clients to discover and remove obstacles. My practice specializes in counseling, especially for men, their partners, and their families. I understand the unique challenges facing men today, from redefining masculinity to addressing mental health stigmas. I am particularly interested in helping families in challenging circumstances and supporting them through career, marriage, divorce, and aging life transitions. I encourage anyone interested to connect. I see all kinds of people.

Whether you're getting ready for a school or career change, getting married, enduring hospice or in poor health, trying to change your relationship with substance, embarking on a spiritual journey, or seeking support and counsel, I'm here to support you. My practice is free from cookie-cutter solutions, new-age jargon, politically correct mumbo-jumbo, unhelpful diagnoses, and orthodoxy.

Our work will prioritize personal meaning, autonomy, interpersonal freedom, and choice.

The brain’s fundamental secret will be laid open one day. But even when it has, the wonder will remain, that mere wet stuff can make this bright inward cinema of thought, of sight and sound and touch bound into a vivid illusion of an instantaneous present, with a self, another brightly wrought illusion, hovering like a ghost at its centre. Could it ever be explained how matter becomes conscious?”

―Ian McEwan