Between the dream
and the dirt.

Making access tangible.

I founded Kind Therapy Inc ("Kind") to expand affordable mental health care for people without insurance. Since 2016, our work has grown to more than 90,000 therapy sessions and $9 million in out-of-pocket therapy costs saved.

This work includes building a statewide mental health access partnership for Colorado’s restaurant and hospitality workforce. Access depends on the relationships and structures that make care available long after the initial commitment.

Making room for different kinds of knowledge.

My work as Chairperson of Colorado’s Natural Medicine Advisory Board included inventing a nonclinical facilitator pathway to support participation by Indigenous and legacy practitioners in regulated natural medicine.

I also advise governments on psychedelic bioculture regulation within their sovereign jurisdictions. Across this work, I advocate for responsible sourcing and benefit-sharing informed by the Nagoya Protocol, with attention to the communities, knowledge, and living systems from which these medicines emerge.

Supporting the people who provide care.

Through Inner Guru Therapy, I created a low-interest lending infrastructure for psychedelic facilitators and natural medicine providers. The question is practical: how can financial structures support the people whose work makes care possible?