Being human, and being ourselves, can be difficult at times. This is true for everyone. Psychotherapy is a powerful support for skillfully and compassionately meeting life’s challenges, gaining clarity, and ultimately growing from and through those challenges. That’s why I love this work, which I see as facilitating a process that supports your innate movement toward healing and growth. Maybe you want to feel more connected with yourself and others, or to feel secure and confident in your own skin while being who you most naturally are. Or, to feel that you are living your life fully, and in alignment with your deepest values. Whatever it is for each of us, at any given point in our life, psychotherapy can be an invaluable aid.

At times the psychotherapy process entails a focus on healing developmental trauma to bring about relief, authentic connection in our relationships, and a sense of fundamental okayness that may have been missing for a long time. At others it’s more about our growth, with a focus on cultivating previously underdeveloped aspects of ourselves to allow more skillfulness, spontaneity, playfulness, flexibility and resilience. At still others it may be an existential exploration with a spiritual component that brings us to a sense of awe, wonderment, appreciative joy, and a deep trust in life. Each of these involves periods of inquiry, experiential understanding and insight, and then integration. 

My psychotherapy approach integrates my training in somatically-oriented Gestalt Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), PACT couple therapy, and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) with my study of Buddhist psychology and an 18+ year meditation practice. I bring Buddhist psychology’s experiential insights into the causes and relief of human suffering together with Western Psychology’s scientific understanding of attachment theory and human development, interpersonal neurobiology, nervous system regulation, somatic (bodily) felt experience and trauma healing, and systems thinking.

When not working I’m typically being a husband, being a father to 2 very active young kids, and running the trails around Boulder with a group of close friends.