My Personal Path

I’ve done decades of therapy and self-work, beginning when I had a brain hemorrhage at age 16. While I found the work enlivening and profound, I ultimately discovered that much of what was being taught as healing or healthy often reinforced and even intensified my unhelpful patterns:

my emotional over-functioning, my self-awareness as defense, my perceptiveness as shield, my communication skills as tools to manage outcomes, and even my intuitive or spiritual inclinations as ways to avoid my own center and choice.

I noticed this not only in myself, but also in many other therapists and highly self-aware, relationally oriented individuals, people who were still struggling with similar dynamics despite years of therapy or self-work.

Although I certainly grew and benefited from working with some incredible therapists, it wasn’t until I found a practitioner living from a deeply differentiated stance (something I had not encountered before) who could see through me in ways that were confronting but deeply liberating, that I truly began to find my way home: to agency, to freedom, to relationships transforming in ways I hadn’t seen before.

The work itself was deceptively simple on the surface, yet harder in practice—requiring more courage and self-compassion. Combining the differentiation model with aspects of IFS and parts work helped me find an inner ok-ness I could rely on no matter what.

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My Professional Path

In 2017 in my mid-30s, I had almost completed the 3,000 hours required for the Marriage and Family Therapist license when an illness required me to pause for some years. While that meant losing those hours, it also opened a new path of growth and experience.

During those years, I immersed myself in writing, coaching, facilitating online groups, and mentorship and training with some of the most respected teachers in the therapy field. I also built a large online community—several hundred thousand strong—that gave me invaluable real-world experience in working with people at scale.

Eventually, I chose to step back from the public spotlight to refine my ideas about therapy, coaching, and spirituality, integrating them in a way that felt more grounded and centered.

Now, with over a decade of experience supporting clients, including many therapists, coaches, and others in the healing professions, I bring greater depth, clarity, and presence to my work with individuals and couples.

Although my background and decades of experience were initially oriented in depth/Jungian & transpersonal psychology, as well as Buddhist psychology and psychodynamic perspective, I became especially drawn to the differentiation model, as explored by Dr. David Schnarch and others (for a brief explanation, explore here).

I also have training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO)—the couples model of IFS that places differentiation at its core. I combine these models and more to help my coaching clients and couples.

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Important Note: I work exclusively as a coach. I no longer practice psychotherapy. This means I do not treat or diagnose mental or emotional disorders or maladjustment. This work is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Thank you ~