VITAE

BACKGROUND

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I was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in an industrial farming community near the Columbia River Gorge. I attended local public-schools and excelled in English, wrestling and track and field. As a teen I worked in construction as a shop assistant, in retail as a clerk, and as a freight dockworker loading and unloading semi-tractor trailers. 

I moved from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington in 2000 right out of high school. I started studying at community college and worked different jobs in manual labor and customer service. Eventually I became a residential counselor teaching life-skills curriculum to handicapped young people.

I finished undergraduate studies in psychology in 2007 and graduate studies in psychology in 2011. The undergraduate program was composed of independent learning contracts, study abroad modules and a field-research externship in disaster psychology. The graduate program was composed of theoretical study in existential-phenomenology and clinical-training as an outpatient psychotherapist specializing in therapy with at-risk juvenile offenders, usually as part of their court-mandated counseling. 

I left the field of clinical psychology around 2013 and started working as a consultant and teacher. Initially my consulting work was pastoral in nature, but is now largely composed of creative strategy, operations management, human resources, digital media production, and artificial intelligence design.

 

PROSPECTOUS

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I’m a writer, editor and artist with a background in psychology and literary theory. I have experience in consulting, human service fields, the humanities, and creative content production for the web. My experience includes 2 decades as a superintendent Editor, Consultant and Producer, as well as 2 decades field-experience as an Educator, Counselor & Clinician. 

My prospective studies include: theology, geomorphology, land management, bushcraft, carpentry, art cinema, artificial intelligence, children's literature, cultural theory, and short-form poetics.