I'm a life coach, licensed psilocybin facilitator, INELDA-certified end-of-life doula, and longtime mindfulness practitioner based in Oregon. 

My work centers on what I think of as threshold experiences — the liminal spaces where certainty dissolves, familiar structures fall away, and something new becomes possible. These thresholds show up in many forms: a serious diagnosis, the loss of someone central to your life, a career that no longer fits, the search for meaning when the old answers stop working, the psilocybin journey itself. What they share is that the ground shifts, and the tools that worked before don't work the same way anymore. 

I accompany people through these spaces. Sometimes that means ongoing coaching. Sometimes it means guiding a psilocybin journey. Sometimes it means sitting with someone who is dying, or with the people who love them. Often it means some combination — a sustained relationship where we draw on whatever the moment requires.

How I Think About This Work

My approach integrates four traditions that converge on a shared insight. 

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers a practical framework for psychological flexibility — the ability to stay present and act on your values even when internal experience is painful. Existential psychotherapy, particularly in the tradition of Irvin Yalom, addresses the ultimate concerns that surface at life's edges: death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness. Buddhist contemplative practice — I maintain a Zen practice with deepening roots in the Thai Forest tradition — provides both the attentional skills and the philosophical framework for observing the mind without being captured by it. And complex adaptive systems theory helps me think about how people navigate genuine uncertainty — how to find high ground on a landscape that's always shifting. 

These aren't four separate toolkits I rotate between. They converge on a shared insight: that growth happens not by eliminating difficult experiences, but by changing your relationship to them. That insight shapes everything I do — how I prepare clients for psilocybin experiences, what I attend to during the journey, how I support integration afterward, and how I approach coaching conversations that may never involve psilocybin at all. 

It also makes me an effective partner for therapists and physicians. I can articulate what's happening at each phase of the psilocybin process in terms that connect to clinical frameworks, and I can help providers understand what their clients will need before and after the experience. If you're a therapist or physician considering whether to refer a client for psilocybin work, this framework is what I bring to the collaboration.

The Path Here

I came to this work through three decades in software engineering, where I learned to think in systems, lead through complexity, and mentor people through professional transitions. Alongside that career, I navigated the realities of raising a child with special needs and supporting loved ones through serious illness and death. These parallel paths — the technical and the deeply personal — converged in a practice built on the conviction that growth often happens at life's most difficult edges, not despite the difficulty but through it. 

I completed coaching foundations training at the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT) and am working toward ACC certification through the International Coaching Federation.

If you'd like to talk about whether we'd be a good fit — or if you're a provider exploring psilocybin facilitation for your clients — I welcome the conversation.