FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
Sessions are offered on a sliding scale to ensure the work is accessible across a range of financial situations. Payment plans and installment arrangements are available and handled with discretion. If cost is a barrier, reach out directly — we'll find a structure that works.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
We begin with a brief intake conversation — no charge — to establish whether the work is a genuine fit. I am selective about who I take on, and that selectivity protects the quality of the container for everyone in it. If we proceed, the first full session is primarily diagnostic. I am listening for where the system is stuck, not rushing toward intervention. Most people arrive with a presenting issue that is real but not quite the actual issue. The first session locates the actual issue. From there we establish a working rhythm — frequency, structure, and any ceremonial or somatic protocols specific to what's needed. Some people work with me intensively over a short period. Others maintain an ongoing practice across months or years. Everything discussed remains in strict confidence. The container is clear, bounded, and held consistently from the first conversation forward.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
My formal training is in Performance Studies — the academic discipline that investigates how human beings organize behavior, attention, and transformation across ritual, therapeutic, athletic, and ceremonial contexts. I hold a doctorate in this field and have spent twenty years researching how people change at the level of the body, not just the mind. My practical training spans West African ceremonial dance studied under a master lineage, decades of contemplative practice in Zen and Catholic apophatic tradition, frame drum and ceremonial instrument work developed through years of sustained solo practice, and direct study of how indigenous and traditional cultures structure transformational experience. I am also a researcher who works with my own body as the primary instrument of investigation — meaning the frameworks I bring to sessions have been tested against real adversarial conditions, not derived from books alone. The combination is unusual: rigorous academic formation, genuine initiatory experience, and an active research practice that continues to develop the methodology. That combination is precisely what The Clearing Practice requires and what I bring to every session.