My life and work have unfolded through several vocations: teacher, pastoral counselor, Episcopal priest, psychoanalyst, and lifelong student of the human psyche.

One of the most formative experiences of my early adulthood was serving in the Peace Corps in India during the late 1960s. Living within a culture profoundly different from my own challenged many assumptions I had taken for granted and awakened a lasting interest in the diversity of human experience, spirituality, community, and meaning. The questions that emerged during those years have remained with me ever since.

Following my return to the United States, I entered theological education and was ordained as an Episcopal priest. For many years I worked in pastoral ministry and counseling, accompanying individuals through periods of joy, loss, illness, transition, crisis, and transformation. Again and again, I found myself drawn toward the deeper emotional and psychological dimensions of human life.

This interest eventually led me into psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Over time, my work was influenced not only by depth psychology and Jungian thought, but also by contemporary psychoanalysis, attachment theory, trauma studies, feminist scholarship, ecological perspectives, contemplative traditions, and process-oriented approaches. Each contributed something important while reminding me that no single perspective can fully explain the complexity of human experience.

Today I continue to see my work as part of an ongoing process of learning. After more than five decades of clinical practice, teaching, supervision, and pastoral care, I remain deeply interested in the ways people seek meaning, navigate suffering, cultivate relationships, engage imagination, and discover new possibilities throughout the course of a lifetime.

Perhaps most importantly, I continue to be shaped by the people I meet, the traditions I study, and the enduring mystery of being human.

Looking back over these many years, I find that the question that first drew me into this work continues to accompany me. I remain curious about the ways human beings discover meaning, endure suffering, cultivate love, and continue growing throughout the whole of life. That curiosity still brings me each day into the consulting room, where every conversation offers the possibility of learning something new about what it means to be human.