THE WORK

Most therapy treats problems as things to be solved. Most consulting treats organizations as machines to be optimized. I work differently.

I see therapy as cultural architecture, designing the conditions under which new possibilities become thinkable, then buildable. This means working with chronotopes (the time-space patterns that organize how we experience life), futuring practices (tools for imagining and authoring viable futures), and what I call "counter-defuturing"—resisting the systematic elimination of our collective capacity to build meaningful futures.

This isn't self-help. It's compositional work. Studio work. The kind that requires staying with discomfort, thinking in systems, and refusing the comfort of premature closure.

BACKGROUND

Before becoming a therapist, I built companies, including co-founding and exiting an eight-figure staffing firm. I founded the California Family Institute as a social enterprise. I've worked in organizational development and leadership coaching, supervised therapists, and served on nonprofit boards supporting arts and social justice.

My formal training includes a PhD in MFT with a concentration in organizational development (Loma Linda University) and a Master's in Clinical Psychology (Pepperdine). I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist in California #53081.

But my real education has come from 20+ years of sitting with people in liminal space, where the old story has died but the new one hasn't been born. That's where the most important work happens.

INFLUENCES

My work draws from Michael White's narrative therapy, Pierre Wack's scenario planning, Mikhail Bakhtin's chronotopes, and contemporary theorists including Byung-Chul Han, Édouard Glissant, Bruno Latour, Arturo Escobar, and AnaLouise Keating.

I write about these ideas on my Substack, Liminal Lab, and host The Radical Therapist podcast, where I explore what happens when we question therapeutic orthodoxy and cultural assumptions.

THE STUDIO

Dangerous Stories Studio is where all of this comes together, a constellation of offerings for people whose stories are changing faster than their sense of self can keep up. If you're in that space, I'd love to work with you.