About Alan

I work at the intersection of psychology, leadership, and meaning, helping individuals, organizations, and communities move toward greater clarity, integrity, and aliveness.

My professional path includes over 15 years as a psychotherapist, working closely with people navigating trauma, identity, purpose, and relational complexity. That work shaped how I understand the human nervous system, the cost of misalignment, and the conditions that allow people to truly change.

I have also come to see that many of the struggles people face—burnout, anxiety, loss of meaning, disconnection, and quiet despair—are not only individual problems. They are systemic, cultural, and relational. They arise when environments push people to live out of alignment with their values, bodies, and inner truth.

My Work Today

Today, my work is increasingly oriented toward speaking, writing, and clinical leadership.

I translate psychological and psychospiritual insight into practical frameworks that help people live with greater fulfillment, integrity, and purpose.

Some areas I speak on:

fulfillment and alignment
navigating ambition, responsibility, and family life
reclaiming aliveness without abandoning commitment

My upcoming book offers a grounded roadmap to fulfillment, integrating clinical psychology, lived experience, and spiritual insight into an accessible framework for modern life.

Alongside this work, I maintain a small private psychotherapy practice and serve in clinical leadership roles, including supervising and supporting other therapists. These roles keep my work anchored in the day-to-day realities and challenges of people’s lives.

What Guides Me

I believe:

Healing and leadership are inseparable
Inner exploration without integration stalls real change
Authenticity must be paired with discernment
Fulfilment is alignment, not self-indulgence
personal healing ripples outward into families, organizations, and culture

I am especially interested in how people move from inner work to embodied expression, from private insight to leadership, creativity, and contribution, without losing themselves along the way.

My work is shaped by years of my own inner work, including psychological, relational, and spiritual development. I lead from what that process made possible: clarity, steadiness, compassion, and the capacity to hold complexity.

Whether I am speaking to an audience, leading clinicians, or working one-on-one, my aim is the same: to help people live in closer alignment with who they actually are, and to do so in ways that strengthen rather than fragment their lives and their relationships.

Background

MA, Integral Counseling Psychology — California Institute of Integral Studies
MA, Education — Harvard University
BA, Economics — Stanford University
Former Instructor: University of California, Berkeley: Instructor
Former Teaching Fellow: Harvard University
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (CA #96372)

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