About

I did not come to psychotherapy by linear path. However, I now understand that twisting and deviating from straight routes is a part of our natural world. Animals meander to search, forage and orient to their surroundings. I like to think of my path in this way.

I could start in 2004 with my career as a trauma touch therapist, where I tracked stories in the body, following clients' cues to release long-held tension and emotion. I came to this because I needed to heal my own heart and body. I then offered massage therapy for over a decade, listening closely to the communication of our tissues.

I could talk about 2009 when I felt lost in my own life direction and I sought answers across the globe in a Buddhist monastery. Stripping away my usual strategies of distraction and avoidance, I starkly faced my fears and longings, and discovered a wise self that had been buried beneath all along. This changed everything.

This led me in 2013 to the Contemplative Psychotherapy program at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, where I deepened my meditation practice and studied how to work with the mind. Every semester, we retreated into the mountains for weeks of meditation, where we learned to work with our own wild minds, and how to be in relationship with each other.

As a queer person (in gender and orientation) who practices consensual nonmonogamy and kink, I found myself connecting with clients who also explore these identities. Along the way, a colleague suggested I become a sex therapist. I didn’t know what that was, and the suggestion opened a whole new path.

In 2017, I flew to Portland, OR, and began studying many expressions of sexuality, relationship styles, gender, and sexual orientations through The Institute for Sexuality Education and Enlightenment (ISEE). I pushed myself to meet the rigorous standards of AASECT certification and now can officially call myself a certified sex therapist (CSP).

Throughout these years of studying Buddhist psychotherapy and sex therapy, I have also grown to love psychoanalysis. I began studying at The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS) in Manhattan in 2018 and have continued ever since. This deep yet patient approach to understanding ourselves and our desires blends well with my beliefs in healing.

Now, I offer psychotherapy within the state of Colorado, and clinical consultation/coaching in New York City and worldwide.

This narrative still excludes many detours, but hopefully, you get the picture. It’s been a winding path of discovery that continues to unfold before me. Despite my varied pursuits, I have always sought to understand our minds, bodies, and hearts on a deep level, with the hope that getting down into it will set us free.