I was born and raised in Seattle, Washington.
I attended the University of Washington as an undergraduate.
I earned a Masters Degree in Psychology from Antioch University.
I met Kay in 1993 and we married in 1999.
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Board Certified Psychoanalyst.
I am a graduate and faculty member of The Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).
I love to read and write.
I also love (big) dogs.
I have practiced meditation and Qi-gong for many years and I continue to study many wisdom traditions.
My intent is to learn a little bit every day and to freely share what I learn with others in ways that I hope lessen suffering, develop compassion, and encourage the gradual awakening of deep self-awareness.
As a writer my intent is to explore the many ways that a ribbon of beauty manifests in my daily life. I want to realize and articulate the complex reality of an aesthetic-ethical way of being. An aesthetic-ethical sensibility requires attention and expression to function as a partial antidote to pervasive nihilism, rampant mania and distraction, and free-floating depression. An example of such a practice is embodied by what the poet Gary Snyder calls "the real work". 

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