I’ve spent much of my life trying to understand what allows a person to remain fully alive through grief, pressure, illness, creativity, and change.

I’m a licensed therapist with more than 17 years of clinical experience working with identity, performance, emotional complexity, and life transition. My training is formal. My understanding is lived. I came to depth early, shaped by experiences of grief and intensity that led me to start searching for meaning and understanding at a young age. Dreams, inner life, and questions beneath the surface were part of that from the beginning. I later went on to study Depth psychology in Graduate School, and that foundation still shapes my work today.

My understanding of people was also shaped through years of competitive athletics, performance, injury, recovery, and eventually chronic illness. At different points in my life, I had to learn how to navigate pressure, uncertainty, physical limitation, identity shifts, and the loss of familiar ways of functioning.

Those experiences changed the way I understand strength.

Strength is not constant productivity or pushing, but the ability to remain connected to yourself under pressure, complexity, and change.

Creativity became another essential part of that process. Writing, storytelling, poetry, comedy, and live performance gave me a way to metabolize experience, stay connected to meaning, and continue engaging life even during difficult seasons.

Over time, these different worlds — clinical training, athletics, creativity, performance, illness, recovery, and Depth psychology — became integrated rather than separate. Together, they shaped both who I am and the way I understand human beings.

I’m also the Creative Director of The Life Show, a live performance exploring grief, fear, transformation, and the complexity of being human. I’ve performed across Colorado in poetry, comedy, and storytelling. Creativity has never been separate from my professional work. It has been one of the ways I’ve learned to remain fully engaged with life, even in periods that required rebuilding.