About
Hi, I’m Blaise - a professional counselor and guide for the inner journey.
What do you need in a counselor?
Finding someone who feels like a good fit can be tough. Here are some ways to know whether I might be a good fit for you:
You’re an over-thinker (or under-feeler) who needs some help making sense of what’s going on inside.
You’ve had some experiences that you think were traumatic, but aren’t sure how to process those.
You’re a spiritual seeker, voracious reader, and reflective thinker, but don’t want to explore your inner world alone.
You’re not interested in quick fixes, but deep therapy that gives you tools that get to the root of your problem.
You find yourself in some type of mid-life crisis (whether you’re middle-aged or not!) and want someone to sort it out alongside you.
A bit more about me.
I became a counselor because I believe most of us are living at some distance from ourselves — and that closing that distance changes everything. Not just how we feel, but how we move through the world. How we show up in our relationships. Whether we feel at home in our own skin.
Underneath most of what brings people to therapy is something more fundamental than the presenting problem — parts of ourselves that got pushed underground somewhere along the way, and a longing to find our way back to them. My own therapist once put it this way, drawing on Joseph Campbell — therapy is a sacred space where we can find ourselves again. That's the truest description of what I'm trying to offer.
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Relationship first
The foundation of how I work is simple, even if it's not always easy: I try to create a space where you can be fully honest — about what you're carrying, what you're afraid of, what you've never quite been able to say out loud — and meet whatever you bring without judgment.
I believe the therapeutic relationship is the foundation of everything. Most of us learned early that certain parts of ourselves weren't safe to show — the needs that were too much, the feelings that made people uncomfortable, the doubts we kept quiet to keep the peace. Therapy is a place to bring those parts back. Something shifts when you experience that you don't have to leave anything at the door.
Depth and insight
I work at the level of depth — which means I'm less interested in managing what's on the surface than in understanding what's actually driving it.
The patterns that show up in your life now — in your relationships, your reactions, the ways you get stuck — usually have roots. Understanding those roots doesn't just explain things intellectually. It changes your relationship to them. Things that felt like character flaws start to make sense as adaptations. Reactions that seemed irrational become understandable. And that understanding, when it's real and not just conceptual, loosens something.
This means I pay attention to your history, to what operates outside of your full awareness, and to the connection between your past and your present — not to keep us stuck there, but because insight into how you got here tends to open up genuine choices about where you go next.
More than symptom relief
Underneath everything I do is a fundamental orientation — I'm not primarily trying to reduce your symptoms, though that happens. I'm trying to help you become more fully present in your own life. More alive to what's actually here. More at home in who you are.
Clients describe it concretely — a heaviness that lifts, a pattern that loses its grip, relationships that feel less charged, a sense of more room to breathe. The anxiety doesn't disappear but it stops running the show. The past stops feeling quite so present. There's more of you available for the life in front of you.
What about tools and techniques?
I use practical approaches when they serve the work — but I think of these as doorways into deeper understanding rather than techniques for managing symptoms. The goal is always helping you get closer to your own experience, not further from it.
What this looks like in practice
Sessions are conversational. I'm not going to hand you a worksheet or tell you what to think. I'm going to be genuinely curious about your experience, listen carefully for what's underneath what you're saying, and occasionally name things I notice — in what you're describing, in how you're describing it, sometimes in what's happening between us in the room.
It's collaborative. You set the pace. And the relationship we build over time is, I believe, the most important factor in whether the work produces something real and lasting.
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I've had years of personal therapy and continue doing my own inner work. Not as a credential but because I think you can't take someone somewhere you haven't been willing to go yourself. The inner life I'm inviting you into is one I've had to find my way into too.
I also have training in spiritual direction, and clients who are navigating spiritual questions — deconstructing, searching, expanding — often find that therapy with me is a rare space where that territory is welcome rather than bracketed off.
Before becoming a counselor I worked for a global non-profit and served as an Army artillery officer. I found my way into counseling through these experiences, and they shape who I am in deep ways.
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I'm a reader, a walker, a devoted fan of the American version of The Office, and a dedicated husband. I do my best thinking on neighborhood walks, usually accompanied by my wife and our Cavapoo, Freud — who has, despite his name, no formal training but excellent instincts.
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Licensed Professional Counseling Candidate, Colorado
MA in Counseling, Denver Seminary
Master of Business Administration, University of Colorado
Certificate in Spiritual Direction, Benet Hill Monastery