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I am so honored and excited to partner with you on your journey of self-discovery, growth, and healing here at Odyssey. I came to this work after years sitting with people through some of the hardest moments of their lives as a mental health counselor, and after healing my own moral injury with mushrooms following my experiences serving in the military.

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I'm a licensed professional counselor and one of the first facilitators licensed under Oregon's legal mushroom program, with dual licensure in Colorado as well. I served as Head of Mushroom Practicum and Retreats at the Integrative Psychiatry Institute, where I helped train over a thousand other mental health professionals to work with mushroms responsibly and skillfully. I've personally facilitated approximately 1,400 mushroom journeys: one-on-one sessions, group experiences and retreats, and specialized retreats for veterans and first responders.

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My clinical work is grounded in Meaning-Centered Therapy, which means I'm less interested in simply reducing symptoms and more interested in helping people reconnect with what makes their life feel worth living. I specialize in complex trauma, existential distress, depression, anxiety, and relationship work. The hardship I’ve witnessed and experienced in life and war has given me immense compassion for the human condition and shapes how I work, with steadiness and a deep respect for what it takes to step into the unknown.

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My approach is grounded in empathic attunement and a deep trust in your inner healing wisdom. I'm not here to direct your experience or interpret it for you; I'm here to hold a steady, caring presence so you feel safe enough to go wherever you need to go. I believe your own inner guide, along with the mushrooms, are the real medicine. My role is to create the conditions for that medicine to work.

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I don't think of plant medicine facilitation as a service I provide. I think of it as a shared threshold, and my role is to help you cross it as safely, as meaningfully, and as fully as possible. My own healing and journey toward wholeness inform this work, and I bring that lived understanding into every session.

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Outside the session room, I'm a husband, a father of four teenagers, and a student of esoteric traditions that have been asking questions about consciousness, meaning, and transformation for far longer than modern psychology has. That orientation toward depth and mystery is woven into everything I do.

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If you're considering a mushroom journey, I'd be honored to talk with you about whether this work might be right for where you are.