Build a life of meaning — not just momentum.

My work is grounded in a simple belief: lasting change does not come from reactivity, performance, or quick fixes. It comes from responsibility, clarity, disciplined action, and a meaningful direction.

I don’t tell you what to do and hope you comply. I use evidence-based motivational interviewing to understand your values, barriers, fears, and goals so you actually acheive your goals. I use an existential framework that I’ve honed over 20 years across various markets to improve quality of life, convert toxic behavior into informed behavior and help you find your personal meaning in this world.

My role is to partner with you — helping you clarify your purpose, strengthen your confidence, and communicate who you are to the world with confidence and integrity.

I do this by combining logotherapeutic principles, motivational interviewing, and clinical assesment tools to understand what truly drives you. Together, we design a life that fits your values, your nervous system, and your goals — so growth is sustainable, not performative.

My Approach

My practice integrates behavioral psychology, meaning-centered inquiry, and practical frameworks for personal responsibility and action. The work is evidence-informed, psychologically grounded, and built for real life — not trend cycles, identity performance, or abstract self-help.

I work from four core principles:

  • Logotherapy/Meaning

    Without understanding your meaning in life, you might achieve things and still feel empty—because you didn’t connect it to what matters.

  • Personal Agency is Non-negotiable

    Pulling from a Kantian belief that all humans have personal agency and choice, I treat you not as a victim to be saved, but a fellow human needing guidance.

  • Execution with accountability.

    Without the guard rails of accountability, growth becomes abstract and left to chance. I help the individual by holding gentle accountability and examining barriers.

  • Partnership — not dependency.

    You are responsible for your growth. I am here to strengthen your thinking, refine your focus, and support disciplined implementation. In partnership together with the joint goal of a more fulfilling life.

How I Work With Clients

I typically meet once weekly for 60 minute sessions to review what tasks you completed in service to your goals, let you define the tasks for the week after and discuss/process any underlying issues that are holding you back. Exercises or worksheets may be given as appropriate.

Together, we:

  • clarify goals and define measurable roadmaps to said goals

  • build strategic plans grounded in research and psychology

  • create space for process as necessary

  • review, refine, and iterate with intention

Clients who thrive in this work are self-driven, reflective, and serious about improvement. They are willing to do the work — and they value a partner who brings clarity, rigor, and integrity to the process.

Where You Can Find My Work

My background is a mix of clinical work, end-of-life support, and long-term contemplative practice.

From 2002–2012, I worked as a health and wellness counselor and manager, supporting people through behavior change, accountability, and sustainable routines using a motivational interviewing framework.

From 2004–2006, I also worked as a hospice counselor—Trained in logotherapuetic principles to ensure quality of life was delivered to patients right up until their time of death.

In 2012, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer. It fundamentally reordered my priorities and forced me to live my values. After recovery, I traveled to more than 20 countries—including Tanzania, Peru, France, and Cuba—which deepened my perspective on resilience, meaning, and what humans need across cultures.

In 2014, I completed Level 1–2 combined training through Final Passages, a Northern California nonprofit focused on end-of-life doula care and home funeral guidance.

I’ve also practiced Zen meditation (zazen) since age 19. That discipline shapes how I work: mindfulness practice to help soothe the soul, de-escalate dysregulation and deepen access to self.

Clinically, I completed an internship at the VA (Fort Miley) in San Francisco within neurology clinics, including epilepsy and movement disorders (PADRECC). Since 2020, I’ve worked as a clinical case manager with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, beginning during the pandemic.

I’m currently training toward certification in Logotherapy (meaning-centered coaching rooted in Viktor Frankl’s work).

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