I am a husband and this year my wife and I will celebrate our 38th anniversary.   Our relationship has been a very important part of my personal and spiritual growth.  We have two grown sons whom we cherish and have also been a critical part of my journey.        I have always had a strong service ethic and worked in the public health/mental health /alcohol & drug field for over 30 years.  During the last 22 years of my public service carrier I was responsible for developing and managing mental health and/or alcohol & drug systems of care.  Following my retirement from public service in 2004 I began the formally establishment of the services that are reflected in this web site.   I have had the awareness, since about the age of 30, that unknown spiritual forces have guided me.  I assumed it was “God” but had no sense of a relationship outside of a retrospective awareness that my life’s path did not seem random or accidental.  I have always been successful by others standards both in my work as a clinician and as a human services manger.  One of my gifts is the ability to take ideas and manifest them in the form of human service programs and services.  I am able to bring people together to forge a common vision and mobilize their energy towards common goals.  As a clinician I had insight into my client’s emotional workings.  Looking back I know that these were expressions of my intuitive abilities.  However, for much of my life these abilities were masked by an intellect and personal fears/doubts that kept me shrouded from the experience of my spirit.   What I call my spiritual awakening started about 9 years ago when I was introduced to the work of Caroline Myss (resource link).  Her work resonated with me in a very profound way.  I was raised Catholic but had abandoned much of the teaching of the church in early adulthood, viewing organized religion as oppressive and focused on the negative.  Caroline’s work drew much on the spiritual traditions of the Catholic Church as well as eastern traditions (which had always intrigued me) and gave me new perspectives on the nature of my spirit, spiritual laws, and how to understand my life experiences from a spiritual perspective.  Her work on sacred contracts was most profound and it was through self-study on my own archetypes (with the help of her book “Sacred Contracts”) that I came to the realization that the pain I felt in my life was of my own creation.   This awareness brought much healing and transformation for me personally and in my relationship with my wife.    The next significant influence in my spiritual healing and transformation was the best selling author and psychic Sonia Choquette, PhD (resource link) It is no coincidence that I was introduced to Sonia when she was a guest speaker at a Carolyn Myss workshop.  I was so impressed with Sonia that I took her one-day workshop the next day.  While Carolyn’s work mostly resonated with my higher intellect, Sonia’s work opened me to the experience of my heart.   I have continued my studies and training with Sonia and have completed her advanced Level I and II Six Sensory Certification program.   Four years ago while my wife and I were in Arizona, at one of Sonia’s intensive workshops, I had a mystical experience which awoke my intuitive abilities and brought to my awareness the Native American roots to my own spirituality.  Upon returning home I sought out and began to study with a spiritual teacher and medicine women, Michele Field Wright (resource link).  Michele helped me in exploring/developing/understanding my intuitive gifts, my relationship with my spirit guides, how to manage the new energy I was experiencing.   As my intuitive gifts began to more fully manifest, I became aware of a calling to return to clinical work and more specifically a desire to help others in uncovering their intuitive gifts and living their true purpose.  My work with Michele ultimately lead me to The Alchemy Institute of Healing Arts in Santa Rosa California (resource link) and the Alchemy Institute in the Pyrenees, France (resource link) where I completed 350 hours of course work/training and achieved my advanced certification as an Alchemical Hypnotherapist. While my teachers have brought me a wealth of knowledge and experience their true blessing in my life has been the personal healing and spiritual transformation they have guided me through.  It is my deepest wish to be of equal service to others in their spiritual healing and transformation. Next Page  -  Previous Page