I’ve always been interested in understanding how people really work.

Though my background was in evolutionary biology, I found psychology the most interesting and ended up with a Masters in Counselling.

After a few years working with military PTSD in Canada, I left to Europe to pursue training in Jungian analysis. Over the next five years, I studied many different ways of reaching the subconscious, and the different ideas people had about working with it. I worked with somatic and attachment therapies, psychedelics and near death experiences, all the groundbreaking modern ways of trying to change your deepest patterns.

Eventually I realized that while psychology is very good at defining problems, and explaining how those problems developed… it’s not very good at actually solving them.

The ability to find your own answers to your problems I found in Zen, my culture’s practice of finding absolute honesty with yourself.

Its principles are an extremely simple way to free your mind from complicated modern ideas about how you “should” be, and start listening to yourself.

I still retain a psychotherapist designation (CCC) in Canada.