About Me

From an early age…

I could feel people’s emotions—even without seeing their faces or hearing their voices – since I was six. This ability made me very conscious of the burden of pain the average person carries.

When I tried to talk to adults about the sadness, I saw in so many people. I was told that “everybody feels that way.” That thought was unbearable.

I was about thirteen when I realized that I couldn’t shop in places where used items were sold. The stories of the people who had owned them were too loud and insistent. And so many were so sad, so lonely, so angry.

Between a difficult childhood and empathic overwhelm…

I closed in on myself. I didn’t paint; I didn’t write; I neglected my education. I worked at jobs I hated, had an unhappy relationship, and tried unsuccessfully to heal with talk therapy.

The “Once you know what caused the problem, it will go away!” approach did not work for me. I had always known what trauma was. I couldn’t move around, rise above, or leave it behind.

My mother was a toxic narcissist; my father was just a garden-variety narcissist but far away and entirely disinterested. My mother’s alcoholism made her violent and unpredictable. Since I visited my father quarterly, I knew who he was but had no emotional connection to him. Of course, I never told him about the violence.

Teachers were of no help. My fifth-grade teacher once said in exasperation: “You always have to be different, don’t you?” Yeah, sorry.

I get it.

I understand being laughed at for “pretending to have” an adult vocabulary and for “being stupid.” I get what it’s like to be punished for being smart. I get it that everything was easy and boring until suddenly success at everything is only a memory. I know what it’s like to be rudderless.

In circumstances like these, our coping methods can restrict us as much as they protect us until the protection is gone, and all that remains is the surrounding bars of a small, locked cage.

One day I joined a group of people interested in finding out about energy work.

When I first tried the technique, it was like plugging my fingers into a light socket. The energy was brilliant and strong. The reality of it was unmistakable.

I had experienced extraordinary awareness before, but this was impossible to explain. It was impossible to ignore.

It became undeniable that I could sense, identify, and guide energy.

Many people in the group didn’t seem to be able to work with the energy, but they continued to attend meetings. I got to work on them for months. Gratifyingly, they felt better after I worked on them: stronger, more confident, and more themselves. Less pain. More joy.

I found my life’s work.

The group started to change in focus and direction, trying other methods of enlightenment, one after the other. It turned out that energy work was only a fad for them.

For me, it had become the driving force of my life.

I continued working with energy on my own, developing a method that allowed me to change my unsatisfactory life. I reclaimed my birthright: my sense of self.

Since the late 1990s, I’ve used my intuition and energy awareness to bring relief to hundreds of people. Working with individuals and groups, I use my method of removing a charge from specific areas and specific concepts.

In my Physical Universe life…

I was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Hollywood and San Diego, and now live in Santa Monica, California. Living near the ocean is important to me. Knowing that it’s nearby is like having a pet in the house: I miss it when it’s not around.

I’m a painter and writer. I sculpt. I do a lot of photography. I read. I watch primarily black and white movies. I’m my cat’s biggest fan.

I wanted a cat for years, but I was seldom at home due to my work schedule. I decided that a cat would come to me when the time was right.

In 2020, my rescue cat appeared when it was obvious that I would be working at home for the foreseeable future.

Her name is Petrichor.

Let me help you drop your burden.

“Damaged” is not “destroyed.” Damaged can be fixed.

Your pain shouldn’t define you. It has held you back for too long.

Your responses and actions are symptoms of pain.

There are many therapies with methods for talking about these symptoms, mitigating them, or working around them – loads of modalities and tools.

Have you tried different things? Were they as effective as you’d hoped? Are you getting where you want to go? Are you operating from a perspective different from where you started, in a paradigm structured for your real self to awaken and regain the truth of who you are?

Sometimes you already know what is holding you back. Sometimes, you don’t. But somehow, just talking about it, hasn’t released it. You’re still functioning under this weight you carry. It’s still controlling your responses and actions. And inactions.

If you have tried therapies that have not worked – this one is different.

Together, we can relieve the pain you fear you’ll carry forever.

What we will do is not about treating the symptom of the pain that’s been holding you back. It’s about finding the pain’s source and realizing it is not you.

It looks like you.
It feels like you.
It’s not you.

We go right in and look at what hurts.

Yes, there is talking. There is also active imagining, guided focus, and physical sensation. You might cry. You might not. You might have big revelations, or change could come quietly.

We work with imagery and metaphor to find and identify the originating emotions and core events that create the energy blockages. These blockages are emotional scar tissue.

We use the awareness of the power of our subconscious minds, our higher selves, our true selves, to allow these blockages to resolve.

We allow ourselves to emerge from the cage of pain.

I’m on this journey with you. You’re not figuring all this out on your own. It’s not a Lone Fight Against The Dark Side – it’s a treasure hunt.

I’m here to help you dismantle the lock of your cage.

Let’s set you free.