The Healing Heart of Compassion

Hello All~ Time flies, we get older and the world changes, either we make a conscious choice to respond authentically to those changes or as Carl Jung would say, “they happen out of perforce and the Universe chooses for us through fate”. My thinking and approach in working with others has been influenced most by the teachings of psychoanalyst Carl Jung, yoga master BKS Iyengar, and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who authored more than two dozen books on meditative practice.

Late one night in 1990, while driving on one of the most treacherous mountain passes in Colorado, I ran into a blizzard and hit road damage that caused my car to spin, crash through a guardrail and flip over, landing upside down in a riverbed. I sustained numerous internal injuries as well as a traumatic brain injury, which began a journey of healing and discovery that changed my life forever! I had to choose between giving in to the pain, suffering and anguish or relate authentically to what happened! Instead of traditional medical treatment, I and my doctors, made a conscious choice to take advantage of non-invasive healing modalities that I now use in my work with others.

I felt compelled to become a practitioner in these alternative treatments in order to pass on to others the benefits I received. I bring the skills I’ve learned through this process of recovery to my healing work. I reclaimed and built a life through this experience that has been filled with challenges and adventures I never imagined. The opportunities offered here represent the Gestalt of my life over more than twenty five years. I offer them to you with humility and gratitude.

My desire to understand phenomena and the human experience more deeply motivated me to pursue graduate work in Somatic Psychology, Dreams and Consciousness, Neuropsychology, The Psychology of Personality, Social Psychology, Ethics and Logic.