About Me
Author: Neo-shamanism and Mental Health (2019. Palgrave Macmillan); Transgenerational Colonialism: Wounding, Overcoming and the Reconstruction of Collective and Personal Identity(2021. Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield);Finding the Phoenix: Seven Tools for Transformative Self-Discovery (2022. Balboa/Hay House).
Psychologist: Ph.D/ Psychology - Consciousness, Spirituality, Integrative Health/ Saybrook University (Drs. Stanley Krippner, Ruth Richards and Jackie Lewis) Dissertation of Distinction (2017) Focus on Neo-shamanism, Spirituality and Anomalous Experiences
Historian: Ph.D/ History& American Studies/ University of Maryland (Drs. Keith Olson, Gene Wise and Myron Lounsbury (1989) Focus on Interdisciplinary Method, Film and Media Analysis. Dissertation on U.S.Covert Action in the Congo in 1960-61).
Educator: Has taught workshops and classes on Neo-shamanic techniques, expressive arts, personal mythology, integrating anomalous experiences, connection with nature, dream work, lenses and identity. Taught American History at Charles County Community College (La Plata, MD 1988). Taught classical voice and theater, musical director for Monroe Consort and Monroe Area Opera in Sweetwater, TN (near Knoxville) 2005-2011. Founder/Director: Institute of Esoteric Psychology teaching online courses and ZOOM workshops.
Coach/Consultant: Integrative Spirituality and Self-Discovery (Current)