NEW DIRECTIONS

I am taking a sabbatical from my psychotherapy practice to fully recover from successive knee surgeries in late spring and summer. While healing, I hope to begin to write another book, which will be very different from my memoir The Lost Coin: A Memoir of Adoption and Destiny. My new book will be based partially on candid insights to the current state of psychotherapy.

I will maintain my Washington State license to practice, therefore my door is not altogether shut. In the coming months I will entertain requests to work with me—if not for conventional psychotherapy, then for something I imagine to be an improvisational and interactive process of personal growth in the tradition of depth psychology. I will welcome your contact with me by email or phone.

As I pursue my new direction, I will try to heed the advice of Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney in “The Gravel Walks,” which he quoted in his 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance speech, and later chose as the epitaph for his headstone in County Derry.

Walk on air against your better judgment.

Indeed.