My way of working grew out of direct experience as much as training. Five years living and practicing in Vietnam, along with earlier work in the Peace Corps, widened my view of people and life. It brought me into closer contact with resilience, suffering, and connection across cultures, beyond familiar ideas of comfort and success.
Over time, my work moved away from trying to fix problems toward something simpler: helping people come back into contact with what has been pushed aside through adaptation and survival. With over 20 years of clinical experience and a discerning focus on experiential therapies (AEDP, Hakomi and EMDR (EMDRIA-certified), I draw on training while staying close to what is alive in the moment. Again and again, I’ve watched change emerge when safety and real connection are present.
Therapy is a process of returning to what feels most real and unguarded in relationship. I work with imagination, metaphor, image, and bodily signal alongside narrative—what is sensed, known, or forming in the body and between us. I am grounded in the natural world and in simple practices such as walking in forests, and in being nourished by ordinary moments that feel like a kind of soul’s poetry—birdsong, laughter, kindness, a deep exhale, light through trees, and silence. Clients often describe therapy as coming back into contact with parts of themselves that have felt distant or protected, with a greater somatic sense of aliveness, clarity, and coherence. This work continues to shape me as much as I shape it, especially in moments when something essential becomes possible between people.