About

I came to this work through my own life, not through a program.

In my twenties I stumbled into depth psychology and philosophy, read some of it, and set it down. I was eager to do life, not examine it, and the material didn't land the way it would later. It took another twenty years, becoming a father, arriving somewhere in the middle of a life, to send me back. I am now in my forties.

So I read and studied. Carefully, and for a long time. Not in a strictly academic sense. I was building a working understanding, not checking boxes for a degree. I moved through family systems, attachment theory, schema work, the structural thinkers in clinical psychology, and then back into Jung by way of Hollis, Edinger, Hillman, Murray Stein and others.

I have worked across a wide range of things: pipe organ restoration, emergency medical work, handyman labor for people who needed someone reliable, personal training and nutrition, sales, local politics, and twenty years of small business and advertising consulting. The through line in all of it was not the field. It was the quality of attention the work required, and the relationships that formed around it.

The calling to help had been there for a long time. I had considered, at various points, becoming a therapist, a pastor, a doctor, a social worker. Each time I set it aside to keep building something that seemed more practical, more legible, more like a life. At some point it became clear that I had been answering the calling informally all along, in the work, in the relationships that formed around it, in the phone calls that were never really about whatever they were supposed to be about. What changed was not the calling. What changed was my willingness to stop treating it as a someday and build around it directly.

I considered the clinical route and set it aside. Diagnosis, treatment, and crisis intervention is real and necessary work, and it is not mine. The people I want to work with are not in crisis. They are functioning, often well, and nonetheless living with questions that the clinical framework was not built to address and that the coaching world is too shallow to hold.

What I offer is not credentialed in the formal sense, because there is no credential currently offered for the work I do. It is built from long study, structured education, lived experience, and a sustained practice of paying close attention to how people actually operate. I take that responsibility seriously.