I am here to love and accompany what we are.
When I was two, lying on my belly on a beach in Northwest Indiana, I felt the warm sun on my back and looked into 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.
I accompany people through illness, grief, aging, and moments of change. I am a TRE facilitator. I work with individuals, teams, and healthcare organizations on communication, care, and the conditions that allow people to be fully present to what is unfolding.
The steadiness people find with me is shaped by my own life: childhood depression and anxiety, dyslexia, and surviving sexual abuse and violence. It is also shaped by a lifelong practice of attention — through meditation, TRE, time with others in inquiry, movement, and a daily return to what is simple and true.
I came to this work through caring for my father as he died from pancreatic cancer. That experience showed me the depth of what it means to include the inner life in care — alongside the practical realities of illness, dying, and healthcare systems.
What people often tell me is that they feel met. That something in them can stop holding itself together in quite the same way. I can sit with uncertainty without needing to resolve it, and help navigate the concrete realities that life transitions require. The heart and mind are not separate in my work; I move between them in response to what is needed.
I do not heal anyone. We listen together to what is already here. Sometimes there is silence. Sometimes emotion. Sometimes clarity is simple and quiet. The pace is not imposed.
When I work with people — individually, in groups, or in organizations — I follow what is present. We use dialogue, inquiry, TRE, and practical resources to support what is unfolding, always with attention to what is present — not separate from each other, or from what is already whole.
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My work is grounded in clinical and institutional experience. I am an inpatient palliative care chaplain and Assistant Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where I direct the Individual and Collective Wellbeing Program for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship. I previously held roles at Massachusetts General Hospital and Kaiser Permanente, where I helped build and lead palliative care and spiritual care programs.
When I was two, lying on my belly on a beach in Northwest Indiana, I felt the warm sun on my back and looked into 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.
I accompany people through illness, grief, aging, and moments of change. I am a TRE facilitator. I work with individuals, teams, and healthcare organizations on communication, care, and the conditions that allow people to be fully present to what is unfolding.
The steadiness people find with me is shaped by my own life: childhood depression and anxiety, dyslexia, and surviving sexual abuse and violence. It is also shaped by a lifelong practice of attention — through meditation, TRE, time with others in inquiry, movement, and a daily return to what is simple and true.
I came to this work through caring for my father as he died from pancreatic cancer. That experience showed me the depth of what it means to include the inner life in care — alongside the practical realities of illness, dying, and healthcare systems.
What people often tell me is that they feel met. That something in them can stop holding itself together in quite the same way. I can sit with uncertainty without needing to resolve it, and help navigate the concrete realities that life transitions require. The heart and mind are not separate in my work; I move between them in response to what is needed.
I do not heal anyone. We listen together to what is already here. Sometimes there is silence. Sometimes emotion. Sometimes clarity is simple and quiet. The pace is not imposed.
When I work with people — individually, in groups, or in organizations — I follow what is present. We use dialogue, inquiry, TRE, and practical resources to support what is unfolding, always with attention to what is present — not separate from each other, or from what is already whole.
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My work is grounded in clinical and institutional experience. I am an inpatient palliative care chaplain and Assistant Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where I direct the Individual and Collective Wellbeing Program for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship. I previously held roles at Massachusetts General Hospital and Kaiser Permanente, where I helped build and lead palliative care and spiritual care programs.
