I offer mental health coaching grounded in peer work and Internal Family Systems
Work with me
I see individuals, run groups, and train clinicians and organizations. Everything I do is grounded in Internal Family Systems, peer experience, and the conviction that people in extreme states deserve more than a diagnosis and a prescription.
Individual sessions
One-on-one work grounded in IFS and twenty years of peer experience, for people in or recovering from extreme states, or trying to make sense of what the psychiatric system did to them. Sessions are 50 minutes over video.
Family members and loved ones
For people supporting someone in crisis who don't want to choose between stepping back and calling 911. Together we work out how to stay present without losing yourself, and how to plan for the next crisis before it arrives.
T-MAPS groups
Four-week small-group workshops where participants build their own maps of wellness, warning signs, and support, alongside other people doing the same.
Training and consultation
For clinicians, peer specialists, and organizations bringing T-MAPs, parts work, or peer-informed practice into their settings, and building care that doesn't rely on coercion.
Not sure where to start?
Book a free 20-minute call. We'll talk about what's going on and whether working together makes sense. No commitment, no intake forms. [Schedule a call]
Make your own T-MAP.
A free set of tools for mapping what wellness looks like for you, what you need when you're struggling, and who you want beside you.
Start at tmapscommunity.net.
As a young man, I spent years cycling in and out of psychiatric hospitals, heavily medicated and defined by my diagnoses.
In 2002 I began writing publicly about my experiences, and co-founded The Icarus Project. My private practice grows directly out of that lineage.
For more than twenty years I've worked in peer support, mental health, and social justice movements, making room for people to question the stories they've been handed about illness and wellness. I'm especially drawn to people who don't fit neatly into modern systems, and who sense that their intensity or difference carries both pain and possibility. I think those experiences matter beyond individual healing. They have something to teach us about how we organize care, how we share responsibility, and what kind of society we want to live in.
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A Relational Practice
I don't do this work alone. I'm in ongoing conversation with peers and elders, mental health workers, psychiatrists and psychodynamic therapists, somatic practitioners, artists, organizers, and other fellow travelers, many of whom live outside conventional ideas of family, identity, and belonging. I'm also in relationship with the people who stand alongside those who struggle: parents, partners, chosen family, and neighbors doing their best in conditions shaped by fear, precarity, and control.
These relationships are where my authority comes from, and where it gets checked. I meet regularly with two supervisors who bring decades of experience between them. People I trust challenge me and sometimes correct me. Writing is another way I stay accountable. It keeps me honest about my limits, and it's part of how I practice care and resistance in a world that keeps growing more rigid.
I write regularly about IFS, peer work, intensity, and collective care in my Substack publication, Underground Transmissions.