My coming into the field of psychotherapy and coming into my life has been an evolution. That's to say that  I had no idea that I even dreamt of practicing therapy. In fact, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life at all.

I was a Personal Trainer. I was clearly working with the physical body, motivation for change, and helping people get in shape. While I liked Personal Training, some part of me knew there was more than the motivation for changing the physical body. While I didn't really have the word "intuition" in my vocabulary back then, it was my intuition that told me there still was more, and, it gave me direction.

My intuition led me to massage therapy in which I naturally (and at first, by accident) employed Hypnosis and breath-work while I was giving massages. I found that this combination of hypnosis, breath-work and massage evoked a lot of emotional responses from my clients--they didn't just get a massage, they got an experience. This is when I got very interested in the Mind/Body/Spirit connection, and began studying psychoneuroimmunology (Mind/Body connection--how the psyche, the brain, and our immune systems work together).

I studied and became certified in Hypnosis and found that I was a natural at it--I now moved from working with the physical body into the "mental body." It was during this time that I discovered, or "re-discovered" psychology (I had taken some basic psychology course work at the University of Arizona way back when, and experienced the field of psychology to be too "statistical").

I didn't know during my studies at the University of Arizona that Psychology means "Study of the soul" if I look to the literal meaning of "psyche" and "ology" (Soul and Study Of, respectfully). So as I was using hypnotherapy and Hypno-massage, I began my studies of psychology at the University of Santa Monica. They helped me experience psychology from it's original/literal meaning. Psychology wasn't any longer about "statistics of behaviors" but about people and, the person. They helped me realize that people are whole and complete, and that I was, too. That's the basis from which I work in therapy and in life.