I come from a hard-working family in Chicago, though it’s been a long time since I called the Midwest home. Over the years, I’ve lived coast to coast across the U.S., as well as in Europe and Morocco. I’ve traveled to more than forty countries, sometimes to study with spiritual teachers and Indigenous leaders, other times to hike through forests or leap through waterfalls—and always to experience the world from new and humbling perspectives.

I have formally studied at New York University, in Aix-en-Provence, France, and at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where I received my graduate degree. After graduation, I was offered a position as a professor in the UNLV Honors College, where I taught multidisciplinary seminars for nearly fifteen years. You can learn more about that role here.

I am also a writer, currently completing a four-book literary speculative fiction series concerned with remembrance, sentience, ecological grief, and the ethical limits of the mechanization of consciousness. Much of my fiction explores the effort to remain fully human within systems that increasingly pull away from depth, reverence, embodiment, and relationship to the living world. My literary site can be found here. 

​My background as a counselor and practitioner has evolved through decades of shamanic work, ceremonial experience, and dedicated apprenticeship with intuitive therapists, spiritual teachers, and Indigenous medicine carriers whose guidance, knowledge, and transmissions revealed forms of perception and presence that had long existed beneath conscious awareness. I remain especially grateful for the fourteen-year relationship I shared with my primary teacher and curandero, whose integrity, alignment, and capacity for attuned presence profoundly influenced the way I work with clients today. Out of respect for his privacy, I’ll keep him unnamed here, but I could not speak about my path without acknowledging the role he played in it.