I’ve always been fascinated by what happens in the in-between.

The space where things feel unfinished, messy, even impossible…yet, if you stay with it long enough, something unexpected begins to take shape.

That’s alchemy.

For me, it started young. I grew up anxious, depressed, and hiding more than I wanted to admit (including a pretty impressive version of an eating disorder).

My first therapist was the kind of person who could sit in the mess without flinching. She didn’t rush to fix it or slap a tidy bow on my pain. She just stayed, and she didn’t let me bullshit my way out of the work.

That experience planted a seed I wouldn’t fully recognize until much later: transformation doesn’t come from avoiding the mess. It comes from entering it.

At first, I thought my path was design. I earned a BFA and spent more than a decade in nonprofit marketing and brand development…telling stories meant to move people. What I learned was that even the best campaigns were only as powerful as the human truth underneath them. People weren’t craving polish; they were craving connection. That realization pulled me deeper into psychology, art, and leadership.

I became a Counselor, yes, but I also leaned harder into my work as a painter, teacher, board leader, and consultant. I’ve spent my life moving between studios, classrooms, and boardrooms, always circling the same question:

How do we take the raw material of our lives—our residue, our longings, our contradictions—and shape it into something whole?

That’s where Emotional Alchemy Lab™ comes in.

This isn’t a clinic, a gallery, or a business incubator. It’s a living experiment where all those worlds collide. A place where founders, executives, public figures, healers, creators, leaders, and visionaries come to work the material of their lives into something fuller.

In the Lab, psychology meets paint. Leadership meets vulnerability. Faith meets creativity. Business meets soul.

It’s for people who are tired of performing, tired of perfection, tired of doing what they “should,” and are finally ready to risk being real—to create, to play, to dare, to grow.

I believe there are no wrong marks. Not on the canvas. Not in therapy. Not in business. Not in the story of your life. Every stroke, every failure, every half-formed attempt is part of the process. The Lab exists to remind us of that, and to create the conditions for transformation.

I’m a psychotherapist, professional counselor, artist, educator, and leadership consultant who helps leaders, teams, and organizations turn emotional residue into clarity, creativity, and connection.

My framework, Emotional Alchemy™, bridges art, psychology, and systems thinking to teach leaders how to work with emotion as creative intelligence, so they can lead with authenticity instead of armor.

For over 20 years I’ve lived at the crossroads of creativity, psychology, and organizational life. I’ve directed communications for national nonprofits, teach in graduate counseling programs, exhibit paintings across the world, and coach leaders and creators across industries.

I help people build emotionally coherent systems where courage and curiosity replace control and performance.

People call me a translator between worlds, and I think that’s accurate. I speak the language of artists, therapists, and executives…and help each see what the others already know: that emotion, when held well, is the most sophisticated form of intelligence we have.

So whether you’re a therapist carrying the residue of everyone else’s pain, a leader burned out from holding it all together, or a creative who’s lost your spark, Emotional Alchemy™ isn’t about fixing you. It’s about cultivating a life and a leadership that feel alive, aligned, and worth living.

Because the real masterpiece isn’t the painting on the wall. It’s you