Guidance
Sessions.
One-on-one discernment conversations for people carrying something that needs undivided attention at a real threshold.
This might be a life transition, a vocational crisis, a creative block, a psychedelic or spiritual opening that blew the frame open and left you stranded, a fatherhood question nobody around you can hold, a conflict between the life you have and the life you can feel trying to emerge, or the strange exhaustion of being someone who has done a lot of inner work and still feels like the world they are returning to is fundamentally wrong.
This is for the personal and interpersonal — not for a business, brand, or project. If what you're carrying is a business, podcast, or body of work that needs its language and structure sharpened, Consulting is probably the better fit.
What Sessions Serve
A real question, threshold, creative block, life transition, spiritual experience, or ache that needs careful attention before it becomes another rushed answer.
→What We May Explore
Vocation, fatherhood, marriage, psychedelic integration, creative work, cultural dislocation, grief, purpose, community — the living question beneath the surface problem.
→What You May Leave With
Clearer seeing, honest next steps, and language for what you have been carrying. The practical move comes from perception — not from forcing your life into another framework.
→Why Sit With Me
Years of holding rooms and following live threads.
My background is in long-form conversation, facilitation, men's work, psychedelic-adjacent spaces, writing, media, and helping people hear the deeper pattern inside what they are carrying. I have spent years interviewing people, holding circles, working with men, supporting integration spaces, and sitting inside conversations where the surface problem was rarely the real problem.
A session with me is not therapy and not advice-giving from above. It is a focused room for honest discernment. We listen for what is actually asking for attention, separate the living signal from the noise, name the pattern, challenge what needs challenging, and find the next honest form or action.
Relevant Training
Named for context, not as clinical credentials. This training informs the work; it is not licensure.
What This Is Not
Boundaries, named plainly.
What it is: a discernment space — honest attention, deeper language, and a next step that can actually be lived.
This is not therapy, medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
This is not healing work in the clinical or promised-outcome sense.
This is not guru work, generic coaching, a mastermind, or a productivity system.
This is not a place to inflate every interesting sentence into prophecy, or to bypass clean decisions and ordinary reality with beautiful language.
The work is to find what is alive, test it against reality, and give it a form sturdy enough to hold.
This is for people carrying a real question, ache, threshold, decision, or pattern that needs honest attention, deeper language, grounded discernment, and a next step that can actually be lived.
What to Expect
Not therapy.
A discernment space.
A Sanity & Soul Session begins with listening — past the superficial version of what you came in with. The question beneath the question. The thing you have not been able to say clearly because you have not had the right room to say it in.
The work will become practical. A session closes with something real: a decision to make, a conversation to have, an experiment to run, a question to keep listening to. Not beautiful vagueness dressed up as insight.
Sessions Can Address
What People Carry Away
What sessions have meant.
From years of one-on-one and group work:
"Working with Mike has forever changed my life. We met through a mutual friend. After seeing me struggle with treatment-resistant depression for nearly a decade, my friend suggested him to me. Having tried nearly a dozen medications (along with their awful side effects) without success, I was desperate for an alternative. When I first met Mike, I was on 4 different medications as well as getting ketamine treatments twice a week. After our work together concluded, I ceased all of them, and my depression has been in total remission for 8 months. Mike truly understood my struggles and offered personal insight. He is compassionate and expresses true empathy. He has a sense of humor that makes you feel comfortable and a way of expressing himself that is intriguing at times. He was a most gracious host and considerate of your feelings at all times. Anyone would be lucky to work with such a strong and gifted healer."
— Christin B.
"Mike has guided me to depths I haven't reached in 20+ years of traditional therapy. Like most men, I resist and resent the parts of me that cause me pain. Working with Mike has made me see these as integral parts of who I am — just misguided helpers who need to be retrained on how best to serve me today. Mike has given me the tools I need to manage the challenges of being a man in today's world. I'm blessed to have him in my life."
— Nomi M.
"I was immediately struck by Mike's care, depth, presence, and seemingly natural ability to hold space for me and all of the men to get vulnerable quickly. Mike led by example and through his own vulnerability and courage, guiding us to meet him there. I jumped on an opportunity to go deeper with Mike and a smaller group he facilitated in a several-month sacred container, which brought me to deep places within myself that I needed to confront, heal, and integrate into my being. During one of the most introspective parts of that journey for me, he held such a strong masculine presence that I felt safe enough to go into the core of a very scary place within myself in order to let go of and release pain that had been stuck that I hadn't been able to access through previous work. With Mike's unwavering support, I was present with that pain until it resolved into a state of joy only rivaled by the birth of my daughter. Just being around this guy helped catalyze change for me to step up in my life. I will be forever grateful."
— Jason G.
"Mike has a way of connecting with your soul. His years of experience have given him wisdom beyond his years that he graciously shares in individual or group settings. If you are interested in learning more about yourself or you have a deep-rooted problem that bothers you, reach out to Mike. You will not be disappointed. It is a blessing to have Mike in your life."
— Kim H.
"From our first conversation I knew that Mike was someone I would stay connected to and grow with in my journey. He is not only extremely knowledgeable and personable, but he clearly cares about the people he's working with and helping them achieve success, however they may define that. Mike put me at ease as he guided me through my first medicine experience and continues to help me build on that through new offerings and genuine friendship. Mike is a healer in the truest, most holistic sense of the word."
— Aaron D.
"No matter the journey I embark on with Mike, I've always come back with a deeper love and understanding of myself, connecting with my own authenticity."
— Nicholas S.
"Mike is awesome. He helped me get through one of the darkest nights of my soul. It was truly magnificent. Mike is a great life coach and soul guide throughout this journey called life. He is highly recommended."
— Benjamin D.
Sessions are not therapy or medical care, and no outcome is promised. These reflect individual experiences, in their own words.
Ready?
Begin with a discovery call.
We start with a 30-minute discovery call — a chance to hear what you're carrying and feel out whether this is the right room for it. From there, the work takes shape around need, timing, and the depth of what you're holding.
Sessions are offered in the spirit of the gift: there is no fixed price. You contribute whatever you feel in your heart to give.
Book a Discovery Call →Prefer to write first? Tell me a little about what you're carrying and I'll reply directly.