My approach to psychotherapy, consultation, and teaching is rooted in four assumptions:

1. We're alive in a time of rapid and intense change. 

2. We have strong and valid feelings about this: grief, terror, rage, emptiness, uncertainty, awe, interconnection, courage, love...

3. We heal, transform, and mature through these feelings (not despite them). 

4. That healing, transformation, and maturation is in the service of ecological and social healing.

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From these roots, the trunk of my work grows around:

1. Blending familiar ways of feeling better with countercultural doorways to transformation

2. Supporting people as they work through incredibly strong and challenging emotions

3. Understanding how our personal, familial, ancestral, cultural, and ecological histories are interacting.

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There are many branches from here! For example, my work often involves:​​

• Affirming that climate and sociopolitical distress is healthy, adaptive, and workable

• Helping people share the burden (surprisingly hard in our individualistic culture)

• Exploring how folks' personal histories shape their unique pain for the world

• Easing suffering related to getting by in modernity (e.g. some forms of addiction, trauma, relationship distress, spiritual alienation, depression, and anxiety)

• Supporting grief work

• Working through collective trauma

• Bridging old & new/ancient healthcare (e.g. psychopharmacology, evidence-based psychotherapy, ritual, contemplative practice, ancestor work)

• Helping people develop radical maturity in relationships

• Working with systems of oppression (e.g. white supremacy, patriarchy, colonization, human supremacy)

• Supporting people through an ecological awakening and associated life changes (career, relationship, family planning, etc.)

• Educating organizations about the mental health impacts of climate and sociopolitical crises

• Connecting people with supportive teachers, resources, and communities​