Path to Wholeness
LPC, LMHC, CADC III
Board-verified, cross-checked against Oregon state licensing boards. Supervises pre-licensed clinicians and associates. Accepting new clientsReported by the provider
About Path
I have practiced as a clinician for more than three decades. In that time I've sat with people through grief, loss, long stretches of confusion, and the quieter kinds of becoming that rarely show on the surface. I continue to be moved by how patient, and how surprising, this work can be.
My training is in depth-oriented psychotherapy, with ongoing study in psychoanalytic, existential, and Jungian thought.
Alongside that, I've spent many years engaged with contemplative practice across Christian contemplative, Buddhist, Hindu, Pagan, and interspiritual traditions. I don't represent any of them. I have been shaped by all of them.
I am also trained in ACPE Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy. Where a client wants spirituality to be part of the work, that's possible. Where they don't, the work proceeds without it. The choice belongs to them.
I work with adults who want a slower, more reflective form of attention. Many come during a transition: a loss, a vocational shift, the end or beginning of something, or the sense that an old way of being has quietly stopped fitting.
The people who tend to find their way here are often navigating religious trauma or spiritual abuse, faith deconstruction, spiritual emergence, grief, vocational questioning, or other meaningful life transitions. Many are therapists, clinicians, caregivers, or spiritually engaged people seeking depth-oriented reflection that is difficult to find elsewhere.
Some come without knowing exactly why. That is enough to begin.
Clinical supervisor
Supervision with me is reflective, but also concrete. We look at the case in front of you. What is happening, what you're doing, what you're choosing not to do, and why.
We attend to the clinical decision and to the person making it.
I draw on more than three decades of clinical practice and a depth-oriented frame.
When it's relevant, we also look at spiritual or existential material clients bring, and how to work with it competently without overstepping the therapeutic role.
Specialties
Who I work with
Faith and spirituality
- Interfaith / Faith-Open
- Buddhist
- Hindu
- Christian
- Unitarian Universalist
- Pagan
Treatment approaches
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