My practice is informed by the Person-Centered approach developed by Carl Rogers, with a focus on empathy as a process of mutual discovery and deep listening. Rather than steering your process by offering unsolicited advice or assigning rigid checklists and prescriptive homework, I honor you as the primary authority on your own life, offering a spacious, contemplative container focused on meeting you where you are, clarifying your values and goals, and connecting with your intrinsic motivation and inner wisdom.

At its core, this practice is threshold work, holding space as you navigate the liminal edges of identity, transition, and becoming. Within this space, we draw upon mental, mythic, intuitive, and archaic tools, utilizing ritual, metaphor, and contemplative reflection to mark thresholds and integrate emerging awareness.

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In our work together, we draw upon Motivational Interviewing, self-reflection and inner alignment, and insights from Pearson-Marr archetypes and communal grief wisdom (Francis Weller) to illuminate your evolving narrative.

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Alongside the integral model of Wisdom of the Whole (Linda Bark) and Positive Psychology, I weave in solution-focused coaching (Bill O’Hanlon) and Ericksonian metaphor. This work honors the creative power of language and imagery, recognizing that meaningful shifts in perspective often occur swiftly and naturally, without the need for extensive analysis. This is an intentionally trauma-informed practice, honoring personal pacing, nervous system regulation, and psychological safety.

My approach is formed by rich experience in pastoral leadership and interfaith chaplaincy, including Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), with deep attention to group process, interpersonal relations, and the action-reflection-action model of experiential learning. The CPE lens encounters each person as a 'living human document' (Anton Boisen), employing spiritual assessment, self-leadership, and unconditional positive regard to meet the emerging complexities and unacknowledged griefs of daily life with grounded presence.

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I operate strictly within the professional scope of practice and code of ethics for an NBC-HWC, an interfaith chaplain, and an ordained minister. While our work often touches deep emotional, relational, and spiritual ground, coaching is non-clinical and non-pathologizing, focused on supporting agency, flourishing, and wholeness rather than diagnosing or treating psychological illness. Our partnership is designed to be spacious, collaborative, and life-affirming.