About
Working with me is an experience of being seen.
As we work to transform how you treat yourself, we will create a concrete feeling of compassion that is portable.
That compassion, powerful healing modalities, and tools to take with you out of my office will help you change and grow.
Addressing your concerns will make the experience less fearful, as trauma no longer holds you back. You will gain a connection to yourself and others as you learn who you are and what you want and have the health and vulnerability to give and receive love.
As you have more peace and courage to take risks, your experience in life will bring more and more “wins” in performance and creativity.
Gain tools to have the life you deserve.
In working with me to heal trauma and practice the adaptive and life-giving tools of personal growth, you will look calmer and more attuned in your body as you become more focused in your mind. You will be able to hold and comfort your emotions.
Admitting you need guidance in the disconnected 21st century is, somehow, often looked down upon. To work with me is to get the direction we all need and the compassion you deserve.
If you suffer from trauma, if shameful self-criticism fills your mind and forecloses your opportunities, and if the old ways and beliefs no longer serve you, working with me can help you break through and into your highest self.
I can help you move from stuck to growing, scattered to focused, from accepting the label “broken” to naming yourself whole.
About Me
Training and personal experience guide my approach.
I am a Phi Beta Kappa and Cum Laude graduate of Northwestern University, where I studied fiction writing under MacArthur Grant winner Stuart Dybek and Guggenheim Fellow Christian Wiman. I also majored in Religion and stole the core curriculums in the visual art and acting majors.
Art is an integral part of my life. I am a lifelong artist with a background in music and visual art, whose first professional life was working as an actor and writer in Los Angeles. I continue to practice as an artist.
After working through personal tragedy within therapy, I decided to use the empathy that guided me as an artist in this therapeutic space.
My work as an actor…
Church has been a foundational part of my life.
I was a long-time member and minister within the church and have gone through the painful divorce of leaving that world.
We talked about love and empathy when I was in the church space, but I often found those lacking. Instead, I found shame – love’s opposite – everywhere I looked.
I continue to have a deep spiritual practice and love church people, ex-church people, and all the big questions spiritual conversation brings.
My novel, Shame Baseball, is about the spiritual journey out of shame.
Children and pets keep me busy.
Outside of work, I am a father of two young children. Learning to co-parent my children mindfully and compassionately with my former spouse is the most essential work of my life – and my main gig.
My children are currently in season 15 of The Simpsons, marching straight through the whole canon, and I put this on the level of reading Ulysses when I was in middle school.
I love leaving my phone at home and taking epic walks in the woods with my Supermut Donut. The kids named the pets; the last was Batman Garage.