I am a licensed clinical psychologist in California, and I have spent close to twenty years working with people in some of the most demenading settings this profession offers. After an undergraduate degree at UCLA, I completed my doctorate at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. My training ended with almost two years at the Access Institute for Psychological Services, one of the few clinics in the country that still teaches classical Freudian approach followed by post-Freudian psychotherapy. I carried a full caseload there and learned to listen for the influence of the unconscious mind.

 

In Los Angeles I spent two years at the United American Indian Involvement, the largest Native American and Pacific Islander clinic in the United States, located downtown. Many clients carried generational trauma, addiction, and loss, and I worked with them using trauma-focussed therapies and energy psychology approaches like Emotional Freedom Techniques. Later I spent thirteen months inside a Level 4 maximum-security prison in Salinas, where most of the men I saw were serving life sentences. Crisis work and group therapy with that population taught me more about human resiliance than any textbook.

 

Today I run an online psychotherapy practice through the Psy-E Center and consult with athletes. This summer kayaker I worked with won gold for his country in the K4 event at the World Championships in Canada. In my practice I help people awaken inner strengths by working though trauma, inner conflicts, emotional charges, and patters that keep recurring in their lives. One of the best achievements in therapy is facilitating someone's healing of old wounds so that new possibilities open up and help that person thrive. PEAT, the Primal Energy Activation and Transcendence method by Żivorad Slavinski, does exactly this work, and has become critical to how I practice. I now teach it to therapists, counselors, and coaches through my course on PEAT.