Therapy that works
with your nature
Mœbius (Jean Giraud), Le Monde d'Edena, 1983–2001. © Mœbius Production
I offer individual and couples therapy with an orientation towards what is emergent in the here and now. I follow where the life is. Where the energy is. Where the love is.
My priority is uncompromised attention and care for you. My nature, love of singing, and musical training can’t help but hear the emotional impression behind what you are saying.
Words are important. I like to write poetry and lyrics. I may use words to make connections through metaphor, childhood, symbolism, and other psychoanalytic and literary means, but this is often secondary to how you sound to me.
I am deeply curious about the world and ask big questions. I also become sincerely excited when connections reveal deeper truths about how we have become who we are.
I’m improvisational and playful in spirit. I see the ability to spontaneously respond to novelty in our environments as a sign of health and vitality! This skill can be honed with clarity of our intentions and values, and with real presence.
By knowing ourselves and being attuned to what is alive, we get to the acurate response quicker, and with more effectiveness.
At my core, I love people and believe we are worth it. I am rooting for us in so many ways. I believe we are loved by nature, and see this in how every animal seems to want to become our companion if given the chance.
We have the chance to companion each other on this planet. What a joy and honor to be in nature’s corner, rooting for it, in all its incarnations.
Love is uncompromised attention to what’s next, and next, and…
It’s got a pulse on what’s alive, where the rhythm is –badum, badum, badum. It wants you to share in its nature and in turn, shares in yours.
It falls in love with the image of all of you and stays forever curious. It knows it can’t ever fully know you and has the courage to be in that unknown…but it wants to know.
This desire stretches within and without on the same beat. It is present with a sincere and spacious hunger to know what is true. And when it catches something real, something true, love gets curious about that too.
There is an infinite dance, and love is it, of it, in it. We are already in love. What does it want?
How I Work
A big breath pulls my belly and chest out. Hands are on the keyboard, capturing whatever finds its way to them. A heater is blowing at my feet. My toes are always cold. Hands leave the keyboard and run through my hair. I look up and notice all the plants in my house. A Beatles Songbook at my keyboard, fog rolling in around Sutro Tower. Rub my eyes, pick at my nails. I have no idea where this is going.
Awareness Continuum. That’s one technical name for what this is. Shuttling back and forth, noticing what’s happening in me, with me, and what I notice out there.
Too much focus on the client, and I forget my seat, my body, my role in this. I may start to feign being an objective observer as opposed to a subjective person with biases, emotions, thoughts that are in dialogue, in call and response with my client.
Too much focus on myself and I talk too much, get clever, may fall into interpretation as opposed to aliveness to what is emerging.
This is the forever practice. This is the truth. This is the dance.
Mœbius (Jean Giraud), Starwatcher, 1984. Screenprint. © Mœbius Production.
SERVICES
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Individual
Individual therapy focuses on understanding and working with your nature, including the parts that feel intense or difficult. The aim is not changing who you are, but helping you function with more clarity, freedom, and self-trust.
Other Specialties: Ecotherapy | Creative Recovery
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Couples
Couples work supports two different natures learning to meet without self-loss. We clarify patterns, repair breakdowns, and build connection that can hold real difference.