How did a boy from a town of 1,000 in upstate New York end up doing work he struggles to succinctly describe in holistic health?

In many ways, this work found me.

I’ve always been someone who yearns to understand the world around him - and yearns to contribute understanding back into the world. When I was younger, I was obsessed with education - and drawn to western methods of empirical study. I majored in math and economics, went to law school , and worked as the curriculum and assessment director for a national childcare chain.

I used to think this was because I wanted to save the world.

Looking back, I realize it was because I wanted to understand how people learn - and to more esoterically understand what knowledge even is. Education and research were the vehicle at that point in my life to learn about these things.

At a certain point, my interests shifted.

Around 26, I realized I was unhappy - feeling hollow in a life that was on paper successful. This opened my next obsession: understanding the mind. I studied meditation, breathwork, yoga, mindful self-exploration, coaching, and self-care.

Like many people in this field, I got my foot in the door because I was “healing” myself.

As I went, I kept being told: you have a gift in this. You need to help people heal. So I kept going. I studied psychotherapy, energy healing, sound healing. I began to identify as a healer and co-created The Deck of Care in 2021 during the pandemic. 

Then again, my interests shifted.

At a certain point, I tired of the mind - and began to want something deeper. I found myself moving into spirituality and new age theosophy. I wanted to understand why I’m a human in the first place - and why any of this exists. My mind opened beyond western empiricism to experiential understandings and intuition.

I began to see that knowledge and meaning are always self-referential.

I dropped the title of “healer” because I no longer believed people need to change or grow - or that any particular journey was more meaningful as a human. I left my psychotherapy path because I no longer believed people needed to be “fixed” or that any set of behaviors and beliefs were “maladaptive.” I saw clients were working with me because I helped them to feel safe truly seeing themselves - and when they could truly see themselves, they began to live more fully as themselves.

And again my interests are changing.

I’ve now found myself obsessed with bodywork and anatomy. I’m even considering a return to school for a medical degree in osteopathy, something I’ve considered and pushed away for a decade. I’m yearning to see how all of these things are interconnected. I want to see the whole through the parts.

I think my work attracts fellow seekers.

No matter what I’m doing, I’m helping clients to seek understanding - of themselves, of the world, of the interconnectedness between all of it. I may rebrand the services a hundred times and tinker with exactly what I’m doing. I’ll do this my whole life because I see work as a vehicle to grow and seek understanding. My work will continue to evolve as I evolve.

Fundamentally, I delight in trying to see deeply into the people and the world around me. I hope to help clients find delight in seeing deeply into themselves as well.