On a personal level, I'm happily married, live in SE Wisconsin, and
have many interests, including spirituality, shamanism, Zen, music (I play the guitar, keyboards, and flute), biking, skiing, hiking, photography, and woodworking.

I found Breathwork in 1995 when I was in therapy for a very traumatic childhood, and I realized that one session has as much an effect on me as 2-3 months' worth of therapy.  I've done at least 3-4 Breathworks per year since then.  It has played a HUGE role in allowing me to get over my issues and find happiness in my life, work, relationships, and spirituality.  I have done a two-year training in facilitating it under James Frazier, one of Stan Grof's first facilitators, and I now want to help others get as much benefit from it as I have.  I'm profoundly grateful for all it has done in my life!

I'm a retired physician who's worked in Family Practice, Emergency Medicine, Clinicial Research, Integrative Medicine, Fibromyalgia, Addiction Medicine, and Pain Management. 

In the early 2000s, I created a fibromyalgia clinic that grew to become one of the most respected in the nation.  I published a book for fibromyalgia sufferers ("The Everything Guide to Fibromyalgia"), did clinical research, and became a nationwide speaker on medications to help the condition.

Later, I became a national-level expert in how to treat pain without creating addiction and was one of the key people in Wisconsin fighting against over-prescribing of opioids. 

I've done graduate training in Transpersonal Psychology and have completed two apprenticeships in Peruvian Shamanism.  For 6 years, I co-facilitated a gay men's shamanic group to help them get over the trauma of growing up gay in a homophobic society (I was the token hetero!).