About Me

I’m a Marriage and Family Therapy intern #60799 practicing under the supervision of Jim Meyers, MFT, currently under the Holos Institute in Petaluma and San Francisco. Previously, I interned at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Pierce Street counseling center and at Petaluma People Services Center, where I ran groups for boys.

I found my way to psychotherapy through writing about men’s issues, documentary photography and teaching. Using words and images I’ve endeavored to describe the conditions and truths of people’s lives, particularly men and boys,  in both ordinary and difficult circumstances. My stories and photos have appeared in Time, Mother Jones, the Oxford American, Double Take, Salon, and The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News. I’ve exhibited photographs nationally. Selected photographs from my series “Sardis Lake” were included in an International Center of Photography exhibit titled Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self. I’ve taught photography at the University of Mississippi and in Amherst, Massachusetts at Hampshire College. More recently, I’ve taught creative writing in San Francisco at 826 Valencia to children and teens.