Twenty years before I ever picked up ketamine

I’m a graduate of Naropa University, where I earned my M.A. in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and later returned as a professor, teaching Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and Humanistic/Existential Psychology. My clinical methodology draws on Psychedelic Therapy, Meta Hypnotherapy, Integral Theory, Transpersonal Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, and subtle-energy and holistic integrative techniques — more than 20 years of it, all in the transpersonal counseling field.

My research has been published in the Journal for Integral Theory and Practice; my article, “Toward an Integral Treatment Methodology for Schizophrenia,” grew out of my Naropa thesis. I’m also an ordained Zen Monk, and the intersection of spirituality and psychology — the ground where I believe real healing begins — still shapes how I work with every client.