ABOUT · JUNGIAN COACH & DREAMWORKER
2023. A friend suggested life coaching.I said, "Hell no."
Who am I to tell someone how to live their life? I told him I felt like I should be doing something different. Something that actually meant something. But coaching? No.
He mentioned Jungian coaching was different, and that I should look into it. So I did. And I learned that a properly trained coach with ethical codes isn't the same as a social media coach dispensing wisdom from a ring light.
I still believe I'm not someone who should tell others how to live. But now I have tools to help them hear themselves.
THE LONGER STORY
I'd always had vivid dreams.
Growing up Mormon meant I was open to dreams as a means of communication from the Divine. Nothing had prepared me for the one that came in July 2017.
I was working two jobs after failing to make it in recruiting. I had a one-year-old daughter, about to move out of my in-laws' basement the next day, when my wife and I had a fight, and she told me we should separate.
A rattlesnake bit me in a dream. I woke up as the morning light snuck into the room through the closed blinds. I knew the dream was important, not in the way you think you know something; in the way your body knows before your brain catches up. Yet, I didn't know what was important about it. About an hour or so later, it became clear: This dream was telling me my marriage was over.
Nine years ago, I began by opening one letter, and it was like a medical bill: In order to be healed, payment is required immediately, end your marriage, and the version of your life you thought you were supposed to live. Payment envelope enclosed. That price was worth paying, and that is why I continue to open the letters, because dreams have constantly reminded me of everything that truly matters.
THE PAPERWORK
I went deep because I had to know.
Certified through Jungian Coaching School and Institute for Dream Studies. JCS is ICF-accredited. I adhere to ICF ethics. Trained through IDS. I align my dreamwork practice with IASD ethical guidelines.
But credentials are just the paperwork. What matters is that I've lived this work. I dream. I do active imagination. I sit with the uncomfortable stuff. I know what it's like to have your unconscious show you something you didn't want to see, and to be grateful for it anyway.
C.G. Jung said, "The art of interpreting dreams cannot be learned from books." He was right. You learn it by doing it, and I have and continue to do so.
Here's what I believe.
"If you're on the path, you're at the goal" is only true if you're on your path. Too many coaches let clients follow logical-but-wrong paths because the logic checks out.
The problem with logic is it kills magic. In my experience, the unconscious doesn't care about your five-year plan. It cares about what's true, even when true is inconvenient.
I'm not going to tell you what to do. I'm going to help you hear what you already know.
This isn't therapy. It's not meant to replace it.
Therapy has its place. If you're working through trauma, processing grief, or managing a mental health condition, a licensed therapist is who you need.
This work fills a different gap. It's for people who've done the insight work but need help translating it into action: functional but unfulfilled, with problems that are less clinical than existential.
I work alongside therapy, never in place of it (IASD ethics, referral list and all). If you're not sure which you need, let's talk. I'll tell you honestly.
The essays live on Substack.
New writing lands there first, usually born from a dream I couldn't shake.
Read & subscribe on Substack →Which letter have you been leaving unopened?
If you're ready, book a 15-minute dream call. If you're not, sit with it. This page will still be here when you come back.
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