Clinical, deeper-scope work: trauma, anxiety, depression. California residents only.
Coaching
No diagnosis or clinical treatment; skill and capacity work. Available anywhere.
Both are experiential, highly relational, and a balance of art and science: evidence-based and embodied.
Coaching Programs
Coaching.
Wired Well
Wired Well: 12 Weeks
We work with three layers at once: mind, heart, and body (cognition, emotion, physiology), in both directions, so they stop working against each other. You'll set external and internal goals, and we work through whatever obstacles surface along the way. Deep personal transformation and a much clearer understanding of yourself.
Nervous system regulationAnxietyBurnoutSomaticMeditation & Mindfulness
12-week minimum
Weekly 55-minute 1:1 calls
Async support between sessions
Virtual or in person (San Diego)
The mind and body are a two-way street. You can work from the top down — how you think, the story you're running — and from the bottom up, through the body itself. Most work only goes one direction. This does both, drawing on neuroscience, physiology, and somatic practice. Regulation you build into your body and brain, not just understand.
Therapy
Counseling & Psychotherapy.
California residents only, under licensed clinical supervision.
1:1 Individual Therapy
Therapy
Individual counseling that's deeper in scope — clinical concerns, trauma, identity, and longer-arc psychological growth that coaching can't address. Highly personal work with both your conscious and unconscious parts. Nervous system and trauma-informed care.
Open-ended — many clients find 3–6 months meaningful, with deeper change often unfolding over a year
Virtual or in person in San Diego (California residents only)
Available to California residents only. I work from an integrative, humanistic-existential approach — grounded in the belief that you're the expert on your own experience, and that the questions worth asking are often the bigger ones: meaning, freedom, who you're becoming. Coaching services are distinct from and not equivalent to licensed psychotherapy.
Couples Therapy
Therapy
For partners navigating the patterns that keep them stuck — communication walls, intimacy, rebuilding trust, or simply wanting to go somewhere more honest together.
CommunicationAttachmentRebuilding trustCA residents only
53-minute sessions, weekly or biweekly
Open-ended — many clients find 3–6 months meaningful, with deeper change often unfolding over a year
Virtual or in person in San Diego (California residents only)
I work from a relational, attachment and emotionally focused lens — looking at what each person brings from their history, the needs underneath the conflict, and how those meet or collide. The goal isn't to agree on everything. It's to build understanding that's steady — whether you're repairing something strained or deepening something already good. Available to California residents under licensed clinical supervision.
A free 20–30 minute intro call. No intake form, no commitment — just a conversation to see if this is a fit. You get a real sense of the work and my style, and we figure out together which path fits: coaching or therapy.
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Initial intake session
We schedule our initial intake session (1 hour) and start to go deeper. We map where you are now, where you want to get to, and what's been in the way — the foundation everything after builds on.
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Begin the work
We begin the work — regular 1-hour sessions (or phase one of the program). We set the pace and direction together, build momentum week over week, and adjust as we go.
About Kodiak
Your practitioner through this work.
M.A.Clinical Mental Health Counseling
B.S.Psychology
CNHolistic Nutrition & Exercise Science
Somatic & Nervous System RegulationBurnout, Stress & Creative RecoveryInternal Family Systems (IFS)Emotional & Relational Skills Development
I came to this work through my own healing. My own therapy, meditation practice, lived experiences, and self-understanding.
I started out as a personal trainer and holistic nutritionist, and the body was where I began. But working with people, I kept noticing the real barriers weren't physical. They were mental, emotional, and relational. That's what pulled me toward psychology, and eventually toward my calling as a therapist.
A long meditation practice has run underneath all of it, teaching me to pay attention to what's actually happening inside, moment to moment. This awareness is at the center of my work and how I work with others:
I blend Eastern and Western wisdom, with mindfulness anchoring everything. My approach bridges neuroscience and somatic awareness with positive psychology and trauma-informed care. I work with your conscious and unconscious parts. So your head, heart, and body (cognition, emotions, physiology) live in unison.
Past Lives: athlete, daily writer of 10+ years, meditating since 15 years old, with aspirations of becoming a Zen teacher.
I've worked across the physical, psychological, relational, creative, and existential layers. Which is why I don't treat them separately.
Therapy & Coaching
About therapy & coaching.
Coaching is collaborative, forward-focused work, for people who feel mostly well but stuck. Burnout, a life or career transition, a creative block, a relationship with technology that's gotten out of hand, or a goal you keep circling but can't quite reach. It's about clarifying where you want to go and building the habits and systems to get there. Coaching is open to anyone, anywhere.
Counseling goes where coaching can't: trauma, complex anxiety, clinical depression, grief, and longer-arc psychological growth. If you've done coaching or therapy before and still felt like something was left on the table, this is probably what you're looking for. Therapy is available to California residents only.
Therapy is provided under licensed clinical supervision, using an integrative, person-centered approach that draws on IFS, somatic work, attachment theory, and plain, experiential conversation. Because coaching involves no clinical diagnosis or treatment, it's open beyond California; therapy is for California residents only.
Think of your inner world like a garden. Therapy is the weeding: healing, processing the past, and tending the wounds that crowd out new growth. Processing trauma in particular lives here, not in coaching. Coaching is the seeding: planting new habits, clarifying your vision, and moving toward what you want to build.
They're not interchangeable, and I won't pretend otherwise. If you're not sure which one fits, we'll sort it out together on the discovery call.
Ready to Begin
Let's find out if this is the right fit.
A discovery call is free, low-pressure, and gives us both a real sense of whether to move forward together.