I’ve spent most of my adult life sitting with people as they try to understand themselves more honestly.

I began my therapeutic private practice in 1990, working with individuals and families who were thoughtful, capable, and often deeply confused by patterns that didn’t seem to shift despite insight or effort. Over time, it became clear that the issue was rarely a lack of understanding, but a lack of contact with how those patterns were actually being lived in the present moment.

In 2000, I adopted my daughter from China. Becoming a single parent reshaped both my personal life and my work, not as a specialization, but as a lived encounter with responsibility, fear, love, and authority. Parenting clarified how early strategies form intelligently and how easily they persist into adulthood when they’re not updated from an adult seat.

My work is shaped by decades of personal inquiry and study, including certification as an Alaya Process Practitioner, along with long-term engagement with teachers, John Demartini, Bruce Tift, and Adyashanti. What emerged was not a method to apply, but a way of orienting: staying present with experience without trying to manage, bypass, or fix it.

In this view I don’t see people as broken or in need of healing. I see intelligent adaptations that once made sense and may no longer fit. The work now is learning how to stay with yourself and with life as it is, with enough internal authority to choose rather than react.

I’m also the founder of Purejoy Parenting, a joy based approach to parenting and adult development that grew out of this same orientation toward responsibility, presence, and internal authority.

If you’re interested in working together, you can reach out through the Contact page.