Every single one of us feels underwater at one time or another. These experiences can be uncomfortable and disorienting. And, if we allow them to be, they can be the catalyst for significant transformation.

I have a desire to help people navigate their journey through life's transitions and, I've been told, I have a knack for getting to the heart of the matter with warmth and good humor. I look for patterns in the stories people tell about themselves. I believe there is a lot of wisdom in people, and that it is actually hard to see things simply. Sometimes we have to take ourselves out of the normal way we see things in order to see a simpler view of what story we are actually living. I coach with a blend of straightforward simplicity and directness, humor, and care. I place a high premium on being unpretentious; I don’t tend to lead with jargon and academic speech. I am convinced that there are times when it is important to use humor, or even irreverence, in order to touch realities that are hard to face. 

After completing my Master’s Degree in Philosophy and Religion, I was an educator to young people in the Boston area, worked closely with the founders of an adult learning and development startup, and then went on to receive my coach training from Doug Silsbee and Presence Based Coaching. I have also trained and worked as a hospital chaplain, and am a Certified Integral Facilitator. My approach as a coach is also informed by my own experiences of unexpected change, loss, and transformation. I am a father of sons and daughters (two of whom have life altering medical conditions), I have been divorced once and remarried, I have reinvented myself professionally more than once, I’ve been explicitly religious and explicitly non-religious. For ill and for good, I’m no stranger to transition. Nowadays, amidst all the continuing change of the times we live in, I like to slow things down by working with wood, cooking, and playing the guitar for my two small daughters.