My public work—whether through lectures, interviews, or writing—grows out of a long-standing inquiry into how Jungian psychoanalysis and Andean shamanic medicine illuminate one another. Over time, these two traditions have become the framework through which I understand trauma, memory, symbolic life, the body, and the movement of time within the psyche. What I share publicly begins in the clinical encounter and expands outward into teaching and scholarship.

Much of my recent teaching has focused on the relationship between time and trauma: how overwhelming experiences organize emotional life, how the past enters the present, and how the future is shaped by what has not yet been integrated. My work with the indigenous Andean medicine people (paqos – or shamans) alongside analytic theory and complexity science, has deepened my sense of time not as a simple linear progression but as an unfolding field that holds memory, sensation, and imagination simultaneously. These ideas have been central to lectures for Jung societies in Maine, Sarasota, Toronto, Sydney, Madrid, and Denver, and to a multi-part teaching series at Pacifica Graduate Institute. They also informed my participation in NeuroCon25, where I contributed to a panel on the neuroscience of trauma and the ways the nervous system adapts under stress.

Alongside this exploration of time, I continue to work at the intersection of analytic psychology and Andean shamanism—two traditions that, in different ways, understand healing as deeply relational and symbolic. I often speak about the ways ritual, energy, non-ordinary states, and the experience of the objective psyche intersect with analytic concepts such as transference, the unconscious, and symbolic transformation. These themes have been part of talks for the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, the Jung Foundation of Ontario, Jung societies in Romania and Buenos Aires, and various international conferences and webinars.

Another continuing thread in my teaching examines the creative process through metaphor and imagery. I often draw upon fine art, film, and literature as expressions of unconscious structure, symbolic language, and psychic transformation. These explorations have formed the basis for presentations at the London Art-Based Research Center and the Journal of Analytical Psychology’s international conferences, as well as workshops and talks for analytic and Jungian communities. My background as an artist continues to inform how I understand image, symbol, and the movement between inner and outer worlds.

Interviews and podcast conversations—such as Lessons of the Inca Shamans, A Self-Discovery Journey in Peru, and discussions of Andean shamanism on Shrink Rap Radio and the Science of Psychotherapy Podcast—offer additional ways to explore this synthesis of traditions. These dialogues often focus on the lived experience of shamanic apprenticeship, symbolic healing, and the ways indigenous knowledge enters analytic work in respectful and meaningful ways.

My publications follow the same arcs of inquiry. Recent work in Psychoanalytic Dialogues explores liminality, fractal processes, and quantum-informed perspectives on analytic change. Articles in the Journal of Analytical Psychology examine connectivity, creativity, and the lingering impact of trauma on time and subjectivity. Earlier work in Psychological Perspectives, Sacred Hoop, Journal of Shamanic Practice, and Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche traces my engagement with participation mystique, ritual, and symbolic experience. My books—including Time and Trauma in Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy: The Wisdom of Andean Shamanism and the two Lessons of the Inca Shamans volumes—offer longer explorations of how Jungian analysis and Andean shamanic medicine complement and deepen each other.

Across these lectures, interviews, and publications, my focus continually returns to a central question: How do we access and work with the deeper layers of the psyche to facilitate healing? And what becomes possible when we allow analytic psychology and indigenous medicine to speak to one another—not as competing systems, but as two different languages for understanding the nuanced complexity and capacity for transformation that exists within our psyches?