I grew up in a small milltown in western Pennsylvania (Ellwood City). I now live with my family in the Catskills region of NY and spend a lot of time in Brooklyn. I am about to finish a master’s in transpersonal mental health counseling from Naropa University.

It’s been a long winding path to the beautiful and enriching life I live today. It didn’t come without challenges. I experienced long periods of being disconnected from myself and others. I experienced persistent migraines and a full disconnect from my body, emotions, and intuition. I experienced a prolonged period of grief and confusion after my dad’s death when I was 18.

I eventually found a path back to myself, but it took a lot of experimentation and, honestly, I wish I had more support. I undertook the challenges of actually feeling what I was feeling. I sat in meditation. I devoured books. I reconnected with the body through yoga and dance. I explored the mind and heart with psychedelics.

I grew up perpetually anxious about money so in my first career I studied money and became a money expert at the world’s biggest money companies. I got a number of promotions and growing responsibilities, but realized that the work was losing its meaning. I was praised my whole life for being “good with numbers” so I pursued that fully, but I realized in 2016 that these were not the gifts I valued most about myself.

Instead, I recognized my capacity to create spaces where healing and transformation can happen — calm, nonjudgmental, curious spaces — and that I could further enhance these transformation by studying all of the strategies to aid in supporting others.

It wasn’t easy to leave behind a successful career, but it eventually became clear that it was necessary to take the leap.

In my work with clients, I synthesize diverse bodies of knowledge and wisdom — ranging from ancient traditions to time-tested coaching strategies to cutting-edge neuroscience — so I have a huge toolkit to support each client’s unique path.

I bring mindful awareness and somatic intelligence into all of my work to connect with what’s really happening in the here-and-now. In my view, the present-moment holds the memory of the past and the seeds of the future. As we work with the present, we enrich the soil for greater aliveness and wellbeing in the future.

I view it as a tremendous honor to support others on their journeys of becoming more whole and to witness them become more fully themselves.

• Mental health counseling experience at Evolutionary Psychotherapy in Kingston, NY - seeing children and adult therapy clients; running weekly men's therapy group

• 3-year masters training in mindfulness-based transpersonal counseling and psychology from Naropa University.

• Currently training in psychedelic-assisted therapies certificate program with Naropa/Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)/Lykos Therapeutics (to work with psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine)

• Undergrad degree from Tufts University where I studied international relations, philosophy, and Chinese.

• Master of international economic policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)

• Studied contemplative psychotherapy and Buddhist psychology at the Nalanda Institute

• Training in Internal Family Systems and Hakomi, mindfulness-centered somatic psychotherapy

• Trained as end-of-life doula with the International End-of-Life Doula Association and a hospice volunteer

I spent over a decade as a macroeconomist, researcher, and investment strategist (at J.P. Morgan, UBS, the NY Fed, and Nomura) before leaving the industry to commit full-time to coaching and counseling.

You can see a more detailed chronology on my LinkedIn profile

• My family and friends

• Ram Dass and cultivating “loving awareness”

• Gestalt Psychotherapy and its methods for being “here and now”

• Internal Family Systems and accepting all of our parts

• Alan Watts and the bridging of East-West spirituality and psychology

• Resmaa Menakem and his powerful work on race and the body

• Sharon Salzberg and her profound lovingkindness work

• A Course in Miracles and its forgiveness and mind-training practices

• Pema Chodron and being fearless in the face of the unknown

• Claudio Naranjo and his work on Gestalt, the enneagram, and blending the shamanic and therapeutic

• The Dalai Lama and cultivating a life of joy and presence

• Adyashanti and his loving nonduality teachings

• Stan Grof and his pioneering transpersonal psychology work

• Ken Wilber and his maps of psychospiritual progress

• The Law of One and staying connected with the Creator

• …and many more influences, I am deeply grateful for you all.