Gestalt work can open the way to an expanded sense of inner and outer vitality. The process unfolds continuously through both sorrow and joy.

I am training as a Gestalt therapist and currently work with people in the clinic at Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy.

Using the Gestalt approach, we’ll turn towards the present moment where you and I can become aware of what’s happening in terms of your feelings, body, social position and background. We’ll also see if these experiences of yourself play out between you and me. Through dialogue, movement and your forms of expression, we can come to hold contradictions and begin to find full balance, healing, and freeness.

I come to my work as a therapist from my professional background as a chaplain, offering emotional and spiritual support to people in prison, to contemplative care students, and to palliative patients and their families. Prior to this, I worked for twenty years as an artist, as a translator of art writing, and as an interpreter for asylum seekers.

I am the cofounder of both the Inside-Outside Study Group, a prison letters program, and Zen in Prisons and have been a formal student of Soto Zen at the New York Zen Center for over a decade.