Education & Experience

I am a somatically and psychodynamically-trained, trauma and attachment-informed, emotionally-focused, mindfulness-based, poly-friendly, pro-choice, queer-allied, antiracist, client-centered, dual-licensed and EMDR certified psychotherapist curious about anything and everything being evoked within you & between the world and you. I am especially interested in what motivates us and why; in how we are shaped and impacted by family, temperament and culture; in exploring the places where our individual and collective conditioning intersect and overlap; and in how the sociopolitical matrix we find ourselves located and positioned in shapes, impacts and functions in us personally, professionally, romantically, familially, socially, collectively and otherwise. · I identify as a white, cis, hetero, able-bodied, HSP (otherwise neurotypical), agnostic, queer-allied, pro-choice, antiracist, Enneagram 2, INFJ American male. I am a descendant of English, Welsh, French and Swiss-German settler colonialists. · I graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) with a Masters in Counseling Psychology (Somatic Concentration) in the fall of 2018 and fulfilled my residency as an MFT trainee at the Center for Somatic Psychotherapy in downtown San Francisco counseling adult survivors of unresolved childhood trauma. As an Associate MFT I joined Grateful Heart and the Couples Center counseling couples through an emotionally-focused, mindfulness-based, attachment-informed frame. Since attaining licensure my work has been trauma-focused, primarily EMDR integrated with IFS, AEDP, Hakomi and other healing modalities. My passion is in helping clients resource, reprocess and resolve their trauma so that they can go on to live lives of intention, connection, vitality, hope and meaning.