ABOUT THE WORK

It is my firm belief that the ordinary and extraordinary conditions and challenges of life can be best met by coming to understand that all true need is spiritual. Through the embrace of such a radical notion, and by being willing to move into the emotional work that makes way for healing, we cannot help but become responders to life rather than reactors.

My formal educational background is in the Arts and in the Wisdom and mystical Religious traditions. From my personal life and healing I bring a studied background in several other areas, including Science of Mind, Twelve Step methodology, Addiction and Co-dependence, Inner Child/Re-Parenting work, and Re-evaluation Counseling.

I have special interests in systems theory, quantum physics, and the philosophical foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine, with a particular fondness for the latter, as knowledge of the Five Elements and their application to concerns/problems - long-standing or newly risen - allows one to begin trusting the movement of Life and all that it brings, essential for the work of healing.

Systems theory has as its foundation the principle that life and one's experience of life does not happen in a vacuum; rather, every action, thought, experience impacts something/everything else. Systems theory could be said to have its roots in the quantum realm of science, which encourages and excites me because it enables a blending of both therapeutic intervention, spirituality, and science in ways not conceived of before the last century, ways that are rooted in the very real and indisputable interconnection / interbeingness of All That Is.

I believe that my approach of blending the best of Eastern and Western teachings and practices in a therapeutic setting provides the depth needed to shepherd the transformational work of healing, enabling movement from a focus on wounds to the intrinsic balance of wholeness. It is this already present, yet occluded, wholeness that I refer to as Authentic Self.

An edited version of the academic paper, "A Quantum Leap For Hope," published in the Aug / Sept 2003 edition of Innerchange magazine, may be read by clicking the link below, or you may contact me directly for the full version.