1:1 Counseling

My approach to one-on-one work draws from traditions that have long understood healing as inseparable from relationship.

As a certified mental health counselor in the Sowa Rigpa tradition of Tibetan Medicine—with additional training in trauma-focused IFS and mindfulness—and as an ordained ngakpa* in the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, I bring both clinical grounding and contemplative depth to our work together. I also serve as a Buddhist chaplain supporting incarcerated populations and post-prison integration, work that has sharpened my understanding of what it means to meet people exactly where they are.

The Buddhist concept of kalyāṇa-mitratā—spiritual friendship—describes a relationship of mutual respect, honesty, and care in which one person supports another’s path without judgment or agenda. This is the spirit I bring to private practice. Rather than positioning myself as an authority over your experience, I offer what might be called “spaceholding”: a quality of presence that allows whatever is true for you to be seen clearly and met with warmth and acceptance.

From that foundation, we work together with contemplative approaches available to anyone, regardless of background or belief. Areas of focus include major life transitions, grief and loss, distress tolerance, neurodivergence integration, agency and resistance, and approaches to creative fulfillment—all held within an holistic container that attends to emotional and energetic balance alike.

The simplest way to inquire about working together is to subscribe to the Apocrypha newsletter and reply to the first email that lands in your inbox. Sessions take place over Zoom. Nobody is turned away for financial reasons.

*Ngakpa (Tib. སྔགས་པ) refers to a non-monastic ordained practitioner in the Vajrayana tradition—a kind of householder priest who serves community.