I'm a husband in an intercultural marriage with a college professor working to make the world a safer, more compassionate more just place.

I'm the father of a two-and-a-half-year-old son who is brilliant, bold, brave, hilarious and as wild as they come. My most important job in this world is help both of them feel loved every single day, and do whatever I can for each of them to bring thier full soul and life force to this world.

And even after a dozen years doing transformational work, I still make mistakes in this role. I still fuck it up just like you. And every day, I recommit to love, compassion, creativity, and nourishing masculinity.

I believe that as a protector and provider it’s my privledge to protect thier hearts and provide them each a safe space to grow into the most nourished beings they can each become.

For the past 10 years, I've been coaching, guiding, facilitating, and leading men's transformational work, both one-on-one and in community settings.

I don't pathologize. I don't hide behind the role of expert or title or degrees. I work within a framework of transformational relationships, relying on mutuality, vulnerability, radical co-creation, and use of the spiritual and sensual as power and medicine. For some men, this feels like having a trusted advisor they can finally be 100% themselves with. For others, it's like taking a course in ritual ways to connect with your unconscious and bring that material to light.

What sets my approach apart is that I'm modality-agnostic and pragmatic. I use what works for each individual man. We might work with symbols, archetypes, and nature. We'll set a foundation of emotional intelligence, motivational interviewing, and Internal Family Systems. We may explore the world around you through experiments, field trips and assignments. We'll journal, create art, and co-create a bespoke experience that allows you to fully connect with the practices and modalities that resonate for you.

I've spent years immersed in transformational communities. Most notably I spent 8 years in leadership in the Mankind Project and eventually sitting as LeaderBody Chair for the Mid-Atlantic Area. In 2021, I co-founded the DC Psychedelic Integration Circle, which continues as a thriving community providing harm reduction-focused peer support for people working with entheogen. For three years, I've been organizing, hosting and facilitating men's transformational retreats in West Virginia.

My training includes certifications and certificates from the Internal Family Systems Institute, Fluence, Psychedelics Today, Judaism Unbound, Warrior Compassion Studios, The Moxie School and the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. But ultimately, my real training has come from 10,000 hours of my own transformative process, self-study, and being in the field with human hearts and souls in a position to guide, mentor, coach, lead, and facilitate true transformation.

My path into this work has come through multiple heartbreaks and then through finding true love and committing to a path of the heart.

The first big loss was in 2013, when my first marriage ended. At 31, I was 150 pounds overweight, stuck in a career that felt like a dead end, and in a painful relationship that had collapsed. That loss cracked something open. Over two years, I shed the weight, rebuilt my life, and found men’s groups, coaches, and therapy that helped me discover who I really was. That journey lit the fire to support other men.

The second heartbreak came five years later, when I ended another long-term relationship. This time, willpower and drive weren’t enough. In the midst of a dark night of the soul, I found my way to an Ayahuasca community, where I began to see how much of my life I had been leading through ego and force. In those first ceremonies, I finally met my grief and connected with the divine. Slowly, I learned another way rooted in heart, body, and soul.

Life has continued to initiate me with love. In 2022, I married my wife, Natalie. In 2023, we welcomed our son, Zamir. In just three years, we’ve lived in Washington, DC, Vermont, Berlin, and now central Pennsylvania, following Natalie’s dream career. Each transition has remade me, deepening my sense that my role is to nourish the souls of men, so they can go home and nourish the souls of their partners, children, families, and communities.

People often tell me my presence calms the wildest fires in their hearts or minds. They say I embody a rawness and authenticity they rarely find elsewhere, and that with me, they can share what they’ve never spoken to a partner or therapist. I offer men the chance to be fully themselves, messy, honest, and still grounded in dignity.

I love grounding our family at the hearth through these tender early years, and adventuring with Natalie and Zamir through both nature and culture. And my heart comes fully alive when I’m facilitating in-person retreats in the wild beauty of West Virginia, where men return to themselves in ways they never imagined possible.

Through retreats, ceremonies, mentorship, and coaching, I guide men into the very places we’ve been conditioned to avoid, and into the wholeness and belonging that waits on the other side.