With fifteen-years of hospice service and eleven years as psychotherapist, I bring a wealth of academia and experience into the room. I've helped men and women who struggled with a traumatic past, depression, and anxiety. And I've mentored folks who were seeking a deeper, meaningful connection to self and "Other". In recent years, I've created space for unusual phenomena that has long been a part of the human experience across the world in mythic and literal forms. Unfortunately, many credible and functioning individuals have not found a place to explore these strange phenomena and, instead, have found themselves dismissed and even pathologized by traditional psychiatry and the rest of the mental health profession. ​

 

But both the brain and the mind are too complex for simple explanations. Trying to funnel human experiences through narrow ontological and epistemological frameworks, as does mainstream psychiatry and psychology, is risky business and potentially harmful to cultural diversity. Some of the most bizarre but, nevertheless, genuine experiences consist of a reality with immaterial properties long held throughout the world and by various spiritual traditions.

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Whether God, Spirit, or "aliens" are understood as stemming from the collective unconscious, an energetic world, an interdimensional realm, or literal, the goal is the same: How to help the client to organize and empower their narrative to further their journey while on this earth. The complexity of human experience forbids us to reduce powerful stories to either pure fantasy or pathology.

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Entering the Strange Program

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