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I accompany individuals, families, healthcare professionals, teams, and organizations through the profound realities of life, including serious illness, caregiving, grief, aging, significant transitions, and dying.
At the thresholds, I support people in realizing the truth of being human and discovering what remains steady, whole, and alive.
With more than twenty years of experience in spiritual care, clinical practice, education, and contemplative practice, I serve as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. I am a board certified chaplain, an ordained spiritual care provider, and a Certified TRE Provider. My training includes a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and fellowship training in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School.
I Am Here to Love and Accompany What We Are.
At the thresholds, I support people in realizing the truth of being human and discovering what remains steady, whole, and alive.
With more than twenty years of experience in spiritual care, clinical practice, education, and contemplative practice, I serve as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. I am a board certified chaplain, an ordained spiritual care provider, and a Certified TRE Provider. My training includes a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and fellowship training in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School.
I Am Here to Love and Accompany What We Are.
When I was two years old, lying on my belly on a beach in Northwest Indiana, I felt the warmth of the sun on my back and looked closely at the grains of sand in front of my face. In that moment, I knew that existence, what we are, is whole and connected. That knowing has stayed with me.
My own life has shaped this work. I came to know suffering early. Over time, meditation, TRE, inquiry, and years spent alongside others have taught me to listen more deeply. I discovered that even in the midst of life as it is, there is an ever-present peace.
Caring for my father as he died from pancreatic cancer brought this understanding into the world of illness, caregiving, and loss. It revealed the importance of tending not only to practical realities, but also to the inner life that accompanies them.
How I Work
What people tell me is that they feel met. That something in them can soften. We can sit with uncertainty without needing to resolve it while people navigate the realities before them.
The heart and mind come together in my offering, allowing reflection to open into inspired action.
I join in collaboration with people, drawing on listening, conversation, inquiry, embodied practice, and the strengths and resources already present.
At the heart of my understanding is a simple truth: ever-present peace and love are the essence of our being. Even in the midst of profound difficulty, something whole and steadfast remains.
I invite you to remember and live from this truth, meeting life as it is with greater presence, clarity, and openness.
My own life has shaped this work. I came to know suffering early. Over time, meditation, TRE, inquiry, and years spent alongside others have taught me to listen more deeply. I discovered that even in the midst of life as it is, there is an ever-present peace.
Caring for my father as he died from pancreatic cancer brought this understanding into the world of illness, caregiving, and loss. It revealed the importance of tending not only to practical realities, but also to the inner life that accompanies them.
How I Work
What people tell me is that they feel met. That something in them can soften. We can sit with uncertainty without needing to resolve it while people navigate the realities before them.
The heart and mind come together in my offering, allowing reflection to open into inspired action.
I join in collaboration with people, drawing on listening, conversation, inquiry, embodied practice, and the strengths and resources already present.
At the heart of my understanding is a simple truth: ever-present peace and love are the essence of our being. Even in the midst of profound difficulty, something whole and steadfast remains.
I invite you to remember and live from this truth, meeting life as it is with greater presence, clarity, and openness.
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Selected Education, Certifications, and Training
Clinical & Academic Roles
- Assistant Professor of Palliative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
- Inpatient Palliative Care Chaplain and Director, Individual and Collective Wellbeing Program, UCSF Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
- Director of Spiritual Care and Volunteer Services, Kaiser Permanente
- Palliative Care Chaplain, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Co-founder, Pediatric Palliative Care Services, Kaiser Permanente
- Master of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
- Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Bioethics
- Master of Arts in Business Management, Antioch University
- Seminary at ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal; ordination by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
- Board Certified Chaplain, Association of Professional Chaplains
- Living Dharma Meditation Program, Spirit Rock Meditation Center
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Training, University of Massachusetts Memorial Center for Mindfulness
- Stress Management and Resiliency Training, Benson-Henry Institute
- Certified TRE® Provider
- Certification in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, The International Focusing Institute
- Reiki I & II
- HeartMath Clinical Certification
- Being With Dying: Professional Training Program for Clinicians in Compassionate Care of the Seriously Ill and Dying
- Dignity Therapy Training (Harvey Chochinov)
- Licensed VitalTalk Faculty
- Nonviolent Communication Certified Trainer
- Certified Schwartz Rounds Facilitator, The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
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Peace and happiness are the nature of our being,
and we share our being with everyone and everything.
-Rupert Spira
and we share our being with everyone and everything.
-Rupert Spira
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