I was trained and certified as a Jungian analyst by the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where I now teach in the Analyst Training Program and the Extended Education Program. I teach courses on psychotherapy and spirituality, love in psychotherapy, the relationship problems of men, and the father archetype. Teachers include James F. T. Bugental, who trained me in existential psychotherapy, and Harville Hendrix, author of Getting the Love You Want, who trained and certified me in imago relationship therapy. I have also served on the faculty of JFK University, CIIS, and ITP.
For several years I have researched the intersection of spirituality and depth psychology, especially Buddhism, Christian mysticism, and psychoanalysis. I have taught on these subjects at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the Jung Institute, the Community Institute for Psychotherapy in Marin County, and most recently at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.
My papers include “The Dark Night of the Soul: Contemplative and Clinical Perspectives,” “A Glimpse of the Buddha-Nature in Psychoanalytic Therapy”; “Jungian Analysis and Nondual Wisdom,” “Psychotherapy as Spiritual Inquiry,” and “Basic Postulates for a Transpersonal Psychotherapy.”