Not at all. I welcome people from all spiritual and religious backgrounds, including those who don't identify as spiritual or religious in any way.

For most of my life, I was a dedicated atheist. My own experiences profoundly changed how I understand myself and the world, opening me to a sense of interconnectedness with all life that I had never imagined possible. Now I’m not sure what to call myself, but I’m less concerned with labels or identties and much more interested in questions, direct experience, and ongoing inquiry.

One of my deepest influences has been my life partner, Kirien, who has experienced this sense of entanglement with the living world for as long as he can remember. While my own experience arrived as a profound upheaval, for him this connection with life, land, and spirit has always been part of how he understands and inhabits the world. Being alongside him has deeply enriched my own unfolding relationship with the more-than-human world, and expanded how I understand belonging, ancestry, culture, and place.

I've been a lifelong seeker, drawn to questions about the nature of existence and what it means to be alive. More recently, as I've been making sense of my own spiritual awakening, I've found particular resonance with Buddhism, Taoism, animism, and other wisdom traditions, alongside the work of Vanessa Andreotti and the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective, Pema Chödrön, Francis Weller, Nate Hagens, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Alnoor Ladha, Báyò Akómoláfé, and many others. Their perspectives have helped me find language for, and deepen my understanding of, experiences that have often felt beyond words.

I hold these influences loosely, with a commitment to lifelong inquiry, my own direct experience, and my relationship with the more-than-human world. Some of my most meaningful teachers are the living ancestors of forest and sea, encountered through time spent outdoors, listening and paying attention to the untamed world around me.

If there's one thing I feel increasingly certain of, it's how little I know. The more I learn and discover, the more aware I become of just how much I don't know, and of the immensity of the mystery of life.

I bring this humility and curiosity into our work together. I'm here to accompany you as you explore your own experiences and understanding, honoring whatever unfolds without imposing my beliefs or interpretations onto yours.

You may not know, and that's okay. People use many different words for these experiences, including spiritual awakening, spiritual opening, spiritual emergence, spiritual crisis, or simply a profound shift in how they experience life. The labels or words aren’t necessarily important—I’m curious about your experience and how it shows up for you.

Sometimes these experiences bring a deep sense of connection, wonder, or belonging. Other times they can be frightening, confusing, or difficult to integrate into everyday life.

We don't need to decide what your experience is or what it means before we begin exploring it together.

My own spiritual opening was profoundly disorienting, downright terrifying at times, painful and full of grief, and intensely euphoric at other times. I understand something of how unsettling these experiences can be.

I offer a grounding presence where we can slow down, attend to what you're experiencing, and find ways to remain connected with your everyday life. We can move gently, respecting your limits and what feels possible in the moment.

We can explore meaning together, but I won't tell you what your experience means or what conclusions you should draw from it.

I'm interested in honoring your direct experience, including the parts that don't fit neatly into any particular spiritual framework.

Sometimes meaning emerges gradually. Sometimes what once felt certain becomes uncertain again. There is room for all of this, and no need to rush toward an explanation.

Questioning our long-held beliefs, values, identities, and understandings of reality can be deeply unsettling, especially when the people around us continue to see the world as they always have.

There is room here to explore those questions without having to replace one set of beliefs with another. We can be curious about what is shifting, what remains meaningful, and how you're experiencing yourself and the world along the way.

You don't need to have everything figured out, and neither do I.

As we begin opening to a deeper sense of connection with ourselves and the living world, we may also encounter things that are difficult to face. This might include disturbing thoughts, fears, painful memories, anger, shame, or parts of ourselves we've spent a lifetime trying to keep at a distance. We may also become increasingly aware of our entanglement with suffering, harm, and aspects of life we'd rather turn away from.

These experiences can be deeply unsettling, especially when we begin questioning what they mean about us or the nature of reality. Yet encountering difficult or frightening material during periods of profound change is not unusual, and its presence alone doesn't tell us what it means.

I want you to know that all of this is welcome in our work together, including the things you might feel afraid or ashamed to share. I offer a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where we can explore these experiences with curiosity, care, and a willingness to sit with what we don't understand. I won't impose spiritual interpretations or ask you to make meaning of something before you're ready.

My own experience of awakening to interconnectedness has included the difficult realization that our entanglement with life also includes things we struggle to accept. There's a great deal of tenderness, grief, and complexity in this.

We can take our time, remaining grounded in your direct experience, holding things loosely, and allowing whatever understanding may emerge to do so in its own way.

Absolutely. My own spiritual awakening emerged from such an experience. I know firsthand how beautiful, overwhelming, frightening, and disorienting these experiences can be, and how their implications can continue unfolding long after the experience itself has ended.

Plant medicine and psychedelic experiences can open us to entirely new ways of perceiving ourselves, our relationships, and the living world. They may also bring us into contact with profound grief, fear, uncertainty, or aspects of ourselves and existence that are difficult to reconcile with our previous understanding of reality.

I offer ongoing integration support, providing a grounded, compassionate space to explore what you've experienced and how it's continuing to shape your life. We can attend to whatever is emerging, whether that's changes in your values and relationships, questions about the nature of reality, difficult emotions, or a deepening sense of connection with the more-than-human world.

There is no timeline for integration, and no need to turn your experience into a tidy story of healing or transformation. We can hold your experiences and the meanings you make of them loosely, allowing your understanding to evolve over time. I'm here to accompany you in that exploration, honoring your direct experience without imposing any particular spiritual interpretation or expectation of what your journey should look like.