I've been asking the same question for as long as I can remember.
How do we become more fully alive?
I even wrote about that question as a kid. Looking back, I smile because I can see it has quietly guided my life from the very beginning. Even then, I sensed there was more to life than achievement or success. I wanted to understand what makes a life well lived.
As a young man, a near-fatal rock-climbing accident changed the way I saw the world. My friend saved my life, and afterward the question took on a new urgency. Life no longer felt guaranteed. Years later, I came across Mary Oliver's words, "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" It felt like she had given voice to the question I had been carrying all along.
My Story. My Approach.
Over the years, I've also come to value a whole-person approach to well-being. My own life has been shaped by simple daily practices like eating clean, daily yoga and meditation, breathwork, sauna, cold plunge and time in nature. While therapy is at the heart of my work, I believe healing rarely happens in isolation. It grows through the small, consistent ways we care for our minds, bodies, relationships, and inner lives. All of these practices can help us to have equanimity, and sometimes even smile, when something goes wrong - like when my favorite surfboard broke in half.
As a therapist, my role is not to tell you how to live or who to become. Instead, I believe healing begins by paying attention. Together, we'll slow down, listen with curiosity and compassion, and gently explore the parts of your life that feel wounded, stuck, or forgotten. Often what first appears as a problem becomes a doorway into greater freedom, wisdom, and wholeness.
My hope is that our work together offers more than relief from what hurts. I hope it helps you reconnect with yourself, deepen your relationships, and become more fully alive. Because after all these years, I still believe it's one of the most important questions we can ask:
How do we become more fully alive?
That question has led me in many directions. I studied theology receiving a Masters in Divinity. The sacred path is an essential path. I have served as a hospital chaplain, became a photographer, author, educator, and eventually a therapist. On the surface those paths may seem unrelated. To me, they've always been part of the same journey.
Working as a hospital chaplain taught me that when people are close to the end of life, what matters becomes remarkably clear. Love. Presence. Connection. Years later, after a car accident left me living with chronic pain, the question became deeply personal. Healing didn't arrive all at once. It unfolded slowly through relationships, creativity, learning to pay attention, and discovering that even in difficult seasons there was still beauty to notice.
Photography became one of my greatest teachers. Over more than two decades behind the camera, gave me the opportunity to connect deeply with a wide range of people from famous celebrities to billionaire, astronauts, artists and kinds. Through it all I realized that regardless of our status or stage in life, we are all on a similar journey of exploring how to become more aligned with our inner purpose and call.
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