Academically trained in cultural anthropology and clinical psychology, experientially trained in human potential and transpersonal psychology in the 70’s San Francisco Bay Area, he has practiced as a healer of the wounds and confusion of life experience for thirty-five years, both within and outside of the conventional world of clinical psychology. His work for the last ten years has separated from the realm of professional psychology, reflective of his belief that its structures, methods and philosophy are extensions of, rather than an antidote to, the sickness of the contemporary world.