My most useful wisdom, when sitting with clients, comes from the people I’ve witnessed and guided over the last many years as well as my diverse life experience and background (not, in fact, from my academic training). While I have been a psychotherapist since 1992, I have also spent considerable time in the worlds of business, entrepreneurship, high-technology, non-profit and political activism.

I am not interested in conformity and my life reflects this. After flunking out of the 4^th grade, getting kicked out of prep school and never graduating from high school, I received my BA, Cum Laude, in 1987 from Simon’s Rock of Bard College and my MSW in 1992 from Smith College’s, School for Social Work.

In between those degrees I was an AIDS activist, a grant writer and an Assistant Vice President in a Fortune 100 Venture Capital firm. In 1993 I received my LICSW. Since then my clinical career has moved me ever-more off the map of traditional hierarchical therapy.

In my current practice I do not call myself a ‘therapist’. I work as a guide in the landscapes of masculine and feminine, soul, myth, sexuality and intimacy. I accompany individuals and couples in their explorations of the unique story that lives in each of them, without which the world will not be whole. It is my belief that the souls of individuals and couples are the intimate interface between the isolated experience of being human and the mystery of the larger world, to whom we belong, from which we come. Our souls speak a first language, one which is indigenous to all life. Remembering this language is the key to self love, to our purpose, our passion and our power. It is also, at this point, the key to our human survival and perhaps to much of the current expression and diversity of life on this planet.

I am the founder and current Executive Director of the Global Culture of Women, a nonprofit organization working to resurrect and celebrate women’s wisdom world-wide.

I am honored to have studied with Bill Plotkin, (author of ‘Nature and The Human Soul’ & ‘Soulcraft’ and founder of Animas Valley Institute), most recently completing AVI’s ‘Year-Long Soulcraft Intensive for Leaders and Visionaries’. As well, I am honored to have studied with Mayan village leader and half- blood Native American Martin Prechtel, from whom I was offered the term ‘feeding the Holy’ which now guides every action I take. I believe these two men are doing some of the most powerful work available in our culture; work that serves to reunite us with our own brilliance as well as the deep mysterious miracle of our origin and our current place of belonging.

I have been an apprentice to the ancient sexual arts of Tao and Tantra since 2004.

I have developed the curriculum for, and teach, numerous programs on sexuality, intimacy, coupling, community-building and the vitally important dance between the masculine & feminine.

I have been teaching totemic sacred feminine doll-making to women and girls of all ages since 2004.

I rely heavily on a close-knit group of sisters & brothers, women and men in my geographic and global communities who have taken the time to see me and what I am meant to be doing in the world, who hold me accountable, mirror my wisdom and serve as constant reminders of the necessity of deep intimate tribe. Without them, and my collaborations with their own passions and callings, I would be incapable of offering my work in the world.

I am a current member of AASECT (American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists).

I hold a certification in Sexological Bodywork and incorporate this work into my practice, where appropriate, to offer somatic sexual education and re-awaken indigenous erotic intelligence in my clients.

I am a writer, a poet and a dancer, exploring these expressive forms as a means of worship, greater self-awareness and to cultivate presence.

I live in Boulder Colorado with my two extraordinary sons, their equally extraordinary father, and a host of families, individuals and couples who deeply honor and value community.

I look forward to serving you and the gifts you are meant to offer this world; those that are distinctly and beautifully yours alone to bring.