My background is a hybrid of rigorous academic training informed by my ongoing personal interest in yoga, Buddhist psychology, and new age consciousness leaders. I received my undergraduate training at the University of Vermont in 1988, with a double major in Religion and Psychology. I received my PhD in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University in 1999. I relocated to California at that time and established a private practice in 2002. I recently completed training in the use of psychedelics in therapy at the California Institute for Integral Studies and also completed a training in the use of ketamine at Polaris in San Francisco.