More important than book learning, however, is the fact that my work stems from what I have personally, directly experienced along my own psycho-spiritual journey. 

Upon relocating to the West Coast after graduate school, I became steeped in the work of Wilhelm Reich, a student of Freud.  At that time, I was a very intellectual or “mentally focused” young man who was very out of touch with his emotions.  It was through Reichian Breath work that I first began the process of discovering my feelings.  A process of purification, integration and healing began.

I next discovered Science of Mind, (SOM), the Law of Cause and Effect and the power of using thought to create our experiences.  I learned to change my thinking from that of a victim and, as a result, changed my life to one of much greater empowerment and abundance.   My studies led naturally to licensure as a SOM Practitioner, and I engaged in that form of spiritual counseling for over 15 years on a part-time basis.  I also taught Psychology part-time at East Los Angeles Community College.

In 1999, I met my Satguru, my “final” Spiritual Teacher.   It was through his grace that I had the direct experience of awakening to the true Self that we all are and discovered the possibility of ending personal suffering in this lifetime.  My counseling work is very much rooted in extending the invitation and offering the gift that I received from my Teacher. 

My full time career of 30 years, from which I’ve retired, was with the Federal government.  For the majority of that career I was engaged in human rights, supervising government attorneys who were charged with determining who could be granted political asylum in the United States as a result of having experienced persecution in their native country.  That career facilitated my visiting many foreign lands and experiencing very different cultures. 

Similar to my prior Federal career, my current counseling work continues to be about freedom, albeit freedom on a more subtle level.  It’s about supporting you in recognizing and letting go of the dysfunctional and habitual egoic patterns that compromise your happiness and cause you to suffer.  When such patterns are clearly seen, there is a greater opportunity to choose what best serves in each moment.  

I consider myself a spiritually grounded therapist whose counseling begins with a deep knowledge of the inherent goodness and perfection of each person.  As we develop, we very often deny who we are in order to be who and what others want us to be.  We learn to “perform” in order to gain the approval and love that is necessary for our early survival.  As this occurs, we lose touch with our true Self, believing we are somehow disconnected and separate from our Source.  While we can never be disconnected from our Source, the “belief” that we are separate is at the root of our pain and suffering.

At some point in a lucky life, two questions arise: 

• Who am I?
• What is my purpose?

My counseling supports you in answering those two questions.  Just as Michelangelo said that he could see the beautiful statue of David already present within the block of marble he was to sculpt, my job is to support you in chipping away that which is false and extraneous in your life— where you have misidentified as an ego— so that the light and beauty of your true Self can emerge and be set free.  This Self who you really are is already present within the “stone” of your present life.