He has been trained in a variety of psychotherapy approaches which include Family Systems Therapy, Bowenian Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Narrative Therapy. His graduate and post-graduate training have all been in strength based approaches to change that believe as he does in the strength of the human body/mind/soul to heal. He believes that within a safe comfortable context the body/mind/spirit's innate ability to heal and to seek health will do just  that. That once the burdens that constrain healing/health have been identified, understood and released, people and relationships will transform. He believes strongly in the importance of connection to self, to family, to community, and to the larger environmental systems that surround us.  

He has worked in the helping profession for over 14 years in a variety of settings as a counselor/psychotherapist. These settings include, Good Samaritan Behavioral Health Services, Comprehensive Mental Health, Evergreen State College Student Health Services Counseling Office, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Family Reconciliation Services Program as a contract family therapist, Community Youth Services and in the private practice sector for five years now. For several years of his life he was an Outward Bound instructor leading groups of adults and youth through life-changing/transformational       experiences in remote mountain and wilderness areas around the United States.