He is board certified in psychopharmacology and is a graduate of the California School of Professional Psychology, and is trained in Sulivanian and self-psychology. He studied under and was supervised by Otto Allen Will, MD. He has lectured at the University of California Medical Center, East Bay Hospital, and the Wright Instutute, and has given many workshops regarding therapists who have success with patients who are labeled as Schizophrenic. He is the author of Hidden Secret: The Successful Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.