is the action of universal love, abiding with the souls of my clients through their important work.
“very unusual” | “[having an] infectious calm” | “Unconditionally supportive” | Someone who says the hard truth, but in a kind and caring way”
surprised by what you will discover about yourself.
a spontaneous experience of nondual realization which graced my meditation after years of grieving climate dissolution.
“… what just happened to me?”
A responsive dance with the client’s own self-direction.
I can handle your truth. Can you?
Have taken enough hard knocks that they are ready to give up on the outer world as the source of their wellbeing.
Clients who want non-judgmental support for their unconventional experiences.
Their previous therapist did not see their strengths or support their self-direction.
They want to feel a certain way, but they don’t know how to access it.
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Teaching clients to downshift out of their familiar gears, where new directions become possible.
Cultivating self-awareness that dissolves former barriers.
Open ended inquiry into the truth of the client’s own direct experiences.
I am particularly qualified to work with clinical presentations of climate/ecological distress.
Clients who wish to engage with the enneagram as a map of personal discovery and development.
The unique challenges that many neurodivergent folks face in neurotypical society (e.g.alienation, educational trauma, social bullying).
Couples and other loving relationship forms
Men, elders, therapists/helpers
Something changed. I don’t understand what it is, but I feel so much more free.
Why does it make complete sense that this client is having this experience?” In other words, there is more to understand here…
I’m not here to dispense advice. I have skill in aiding folks in discovering their own innate guidance and wisdom and that stuff is just way better than somebody else’s ideas.
Trauma healing happens in relationship. When it comes to trauma healing, the therapist/client attachment relationship can become an invaluable resource toward lasting resolution of ancient injuries.
Authentic. I am genuinely curious about the real you, and I’m going to be the real me.
Develops through experimentation and learning with each client as I attune to their personal needs.
processing differences (i.e. neurodiversity) account for a significant portion of relational rupture; most couples and parent/child dyads are suffering from invisible misunderstandings.
People who have had spiritual experiences that haven’t yet been integrated into their daily lives.
The invisible persecution of autists by cancel culture. “The interplay and conflict between the social, sexual, and self-preservation instincts.” The unrecognized dark side of the social instinct. The wonder of discovering the sublime subtleties of inner life. Liberation from old identities.
Fascination with uniqueness and the perfectness of “imperfection”
I only want to have real and important conversations… all day, every day.
When I was a coach, I couldn’t accept insurance. It meant I could only work with rich folks! Having never been an adult with such means myself, and coming from the ethics of gift economics and barter, pay-for-fee services broke my heart.
Fascination with uniqueness and the perfectness of “imperfection”.
I didn’t figure out how to ‘adult’ until I hit my forties—not because I lacked intelligence, motivation, or a strong work ethic, but because the way my mind naturally operates was at odds with the culture I grew up in. Over decades, through practices like meditation and deep self-reflection, I discovered that I was fully capable of thriving as an adult. Even now, I’m not entirely sure how the shift happened, but I do know this: after decades of raising children while in poverty, I somehow unlocked skills that once felt completely out of reach.
“Though I now choose a thriving monogamous partnership, I lived the first quarter century of my adulthood polyamorous, raising a gaggle of amazing kids in an always-evolving extended and blended, “chosen” family structure with lots of “Mama”s and “Papa”s. As my now-adult daughter recently attested “if I could redo any of my childhood, I wouldn’t change a thing”. For me, polyamory is not theoretical orientation. It is my nature, history, and home culture.
The Intentional Communities movement, Permaculturalists, Catholic Workers and Hospitality houses, Climate Activism, 2SLGTBQQIA+ folks, Neurodivergence/Neuroqueer, Polyamorists, rewilding, process-oriented groups, Decentralized Organizing projects, Recovery folks, slow living, Roller Derby
In permaculture, we observe that the intersection between two distinct biomes produces a unique “edge” where more biodiversity and natural creativity becomes possible. This happens in therapy, when the therapist and client come from different cultural ecologies. At the place where we meet, we discover and become more than we could have, separately.
The universal importance of grieving. Everyone has ungrieved grief locked in our bodies, protectively. We fear who we would become if we let those feelings have us, so we push them down, or run from them, or tune them out with addictions and distractions. But when we learn to let the grief do its work, we start to get free. We get more and more free.
Formal Degrees
Master of Social Work (Trauma-Informed Clinical Program), Winona State University – Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor of Social Work, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater – Summa Cum Laude
Licenses
Advanced Practice Social Worker – Wisconsin (#135460 – 121)
Substance Abuse Counselor – In Training – Wisconsin (#14413 – 120)
Licensed Master of Social Work – New Mexico (#SWB-2025-0456)
Clinical Social Work Candidate – Colorado (#SWC.0000002466)
Social Worker Associate Independent Clinical License – Washington (Pending)
Clinical Social Work Associate – Oregon (In Process)
Certifications and Formal Training
Internal Family Systems – IFSI – Level One, and others
Brainspotting – Phases I & II
Present-Centered Relationship Coaching
Enneagram (various certifications)
Professional Organizations
National Association of Social Workers – Professional Member
International Enneagram Association – Professional Member
Enneagram Type: Point 1 with a 2 wing – SXso; Tritype: 1,7,2 “The Cool Teacher” (Sx1, So7, Sp2)
Jungian Cognitive Type; Myers Briggs: NeTi III- (conscious Ne, Ti & Fe); MBTI approximate equivalent: ENTP
