I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) through the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists. I provide online group counseling in private practice.
My commitment to this work is born out of my own healing. A grandchild of Holocaust survivors and refugees, I was born into a body and family carrying the vulnerabilities of intergenerational trauma. For much of my life, I suffered from various physical ailments, anxieties, and feelings of disconnection, with no real understanding of their source or the possibility of relief.
As a young adult, getting to know the land, plants, and wildlife of California’s Central Coast became a reliable source of connection. Discovering meditation years later catalyzed a powerful healing process and current of spiritual inspiration. Working with skilled therapists individually and in group containers guided me towards a more relational way of being in the world. Earth-honoring and ancestral healing practices have also played an important role in my growth and maturation.
I’ve completed a master’s degree in counseling and received extensive postgraduate training in a variety of psychodynamic, experiential, somatic, attachment, and trauma-informed approaches to therapy. I participate regularly in training groups for group therapists and engage in ongoing consultation and supervision to widen my orientation and better understand my own way of being in therapeutic relationship.
I aim to approach all of my clients with cultural humility and am committed to strengthening my awareness of my own assumptions, biases, positionality, power, and privilege. I identify as ethnically Jewish, spiritual, U.S. born, able-bodied, cisgender male, heterosexual, and middle class. I benefit from white privilege, while also holding a lineage historically racialized and excluded from whiteness. I welcome open dialogue about how these and other differences will affect our working relationship.
I consider it a great blessing to have had many inspiring mentors and to be involved in work that I love within a cherished community of clients, colleagues, family, and friends.