About

I am a seasoned psychotherapist, Jungian Analyst, and wilderness rites-of-passage guide.

For over three decades I’ve accompanied people through inner and outer thresholds — grief, loss, midlife change, spiritual crisis, and the quiet sense that “the old life no longer fits.”

My passion is supporting those who seek a more authentic relationship with their inner depths and with the living world around them.

My practice tends to resonate with artists, seekers, educators, and those navigating spiritual and psychological awakening. I welcome those who’ve felt out of place in mainstream therapy settings, and those drawn to a more mythic or ecopsychological path.

For a full list of my professional training, teaching, and publications, you can view my CV here.”

Who I Work With

I am especially drawn to working with people who:

  • are navigating major life transitions or initiatory thresholds
  • feel grief, whether personal or in response to collective crises such as climate change and social injustice
  • feel out of step with the dominant cultural story and long for a deeper, more soulful way of living
  • are curious about dreams, symbols, and the unconscious
  • are drawn to nature-based, Earth-honoring practices
  • identify as LGBTQ+ or seek a spiritual life outside traditional religious paradigms

Whether your transition is dramatic or subtle, what matters is that you sense something is shifting and want a trustworthy companion on the path.

How I Work

My approach is depth-oriented, non-pathologizing, and trauma-informed. I draw from Jungian psychology, wilderness rites of passage, somatic awareness, and practices of deep listening.

Rather than trying to get rid of symptoms, we turn toward them as meaningful messengers. Together we explore dreams, images, stories, bodily states, and the movements of your life as expressions of a deeper intelligence.

This kind of work is not about making life easier or more convenient. Often it asks us to confront old defenses, attitudes, and projections. But over time, going deep opens access to creativity, vitality, and a more meaningful participation in the world.

My hope is that our work supports not only your own wholeness, but also a more inclusive, less fragmented society.

 

Offerings

Jungian Psychotherapy

People generally seek psychotherapy to reduce suffering or to address a painful sense of a life not lived. While it is understandable to want to minimize suffering, Jungian psychology takes a different perspective. It looks to what lies beneath the pain to find the creativity and wisdom these symptoms wish to reveal. This access to the unconscious enables one to move through old patterns to a more fluid and engaged life.  { Read more }

Earth-Based Practices

We are born natural beings, but we often forget this as we age. Growing up, many of us receive the message that we are different from the natural world. Yet, as with all of nature, our bodies and minds are in constant flux: shifting, flowing, eroding, and decaying through the seasonal cycles of time. Even our dreams mimic nature, emerging like mushrooms from the mycelium network of the collective unconscious. { Read More } 

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Roots and Background

I grew up on Pimu (Catalina Island), where my family ran a restaurant and my father taught in the local public school. The island’s hills, rocks, plants, and ocean were my early companions, quietly shaping the way I see the world.

My 2004 PhD dissertation in Depth Psychology, Landscape Archetypes, explored how different landscapes give rise to the archetypal myths and images that shape our perceptions.

 

After a decade of teaching full-time in the counselor education program at California State University, Los Angeles, I left academia in 2012 to devote myself to private practice and wilderness rites of passage with the School of Lost Borders. In 2023, I completed my certification as a Jungian Analyst through the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado.

My analyst training culminated in a thesis titled “The Precious Pearl and the Redemption of the Feminine Soul,” an exploration of the dream image of the pearl as a symbol of feminine initiation.

Today, my work continues to weave together psyche and landscape, inner and outer wilderness, as I support individuals and groups in times of transition and initiation.