Every Guide Has a Journey
The Path That Led Me Here
Mind-Body Jungian Depth Coach, Yoga Teacher, Life Long Student & Founder of Inner Alchemy Collective
I Didn't Discover This Work in a Book
For much of my life, I looked like someone who had everything under control.
I built a successful career, earned graduate degrees, traveled the world, and learned how to achieve what I set out to accomplish. From the outside, my life appeared steady and successful.
Yet beneath that success, something remained unresolved. There were emotional patterns I couldn't explain. Relationships that reflected parts of myself I hadn't yet understood.
A persistent feeling that no matter how much I accomplished, I was still living from only a portion of who I was. Eventually, those tensions became impossible to ignore.
Looking back, I don't see that period as falling apart. I see it as the beginning of becoming whole.
A Life Between Worlds
I was born in Bahrain to an American mother and Egyptian father. Growing up in the Middle East while attending an international school meant that I spent my childhood surrounded by dozens of cultures, languages, and ways of seeing the world.
From an early age, I became fascinated by a question that would quietly shape my life:
What makes us become who we are?
As I later moved to the United States, that question became personal.
Who are we beneath culture? Beyond expectations?
Beyond the identities we've inherited or constructed?
That curiosity eventually led me toward Jungian psychology—not simply as a theory, but as a way of understanding the hidden forces that shape every human life.
Turning Toward the Shadow
Like many people, I spent years trying to solve inner conflict by becoming more disciplined, more productive, more knowledgeable, and more successful.
Those strategies worked... until they didn't.
Eventually, I realized that the qualities I was trying to control weren't disappearing.
They were simply expressing themselves in different ways—through stress, relationships, perfectionism, emotional reactivity, and the quiet feeling that I was living disconnected from parts of myself.
That realization changed everything. Instead of trying to become a better version of myself... I began learning how to become a more complete one.
That journey led me into Jungian psychology, dreamwork, active imagination, meditation, yoga, breathwork, somatic practice, EMDR, and years of personal inquiry.
Each discipline revealed another piece of the same truth:
What we resist within ourselves doesn't disappear. It waits to be understood.
Integration Isn't an Achievement
Over time, my life began changing in ways I hadn't expected.
Not because I had finally mastered myself... but because I had stopped trying to.
Relationships became safer.
Conversations became more honest.
Leadership became less about certainty and more about presence.
Friendships deepened.
Becoming a father gave this work an entirely new dimension.
It reminded me that the greatest legacy we leave isn't perfection.
It's the degree of consciousness we bring into the lives of those we love.
That lesson continues to shape me every day.
The Work I Do Today
Today I work with thoughtful, high-performing people who sense that success alone isn't enough.
Many have invested years in personal development.
They've read the books.
Attended workshops.
Listened to podcasts.
Built meaningful careers.
Yet they still feel there is another conversation waiting beneath everything they've accomplished. That is where our work begins.
Together, we explore the unconscious patterns shaping relationships, leadership, identity, and purpose—not to eliminate parts of ourselves, but to bring them into relationship.
Because lasting transformation doesn't happen by becoming someone else.
It happens by becoming more fully yourself.
Foundations of My Practice
Certified Jungian Depth Coach
CreativeMind University | Sacramento, CA
Certified Dreamwork Practitioner
Jung Platform | Sacramento, CA
Certified Yoga Teacher
Solfire Yoga | Sacramento, CA
Masters of Business Administration
University of Dayton | Dayton, OH
Certified Yogic Breath Coach
YogaBody LLC | Sacramento, CA
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
Ohio University | Athens, OH
What I Believe
I believe...
...we are shaped as much by what remains unconscious as by what we know.
I believe...
...symptoms often carry wisdom before they carry pathology.
I believe...
...our greatest strengths are often hidden inside the qualities we've learned to reject.
I believe...
...lasting transformation begins when we stop trying to become someone else and begin relating honestly to who we already are.
And I believe...
...every person carries within them an innate movement toward wholeness.
My role isn't to create that movement.
It's to help you trust it.
“You don't need to become someone else. You need to enter into relationship with the parts of yourself you've left behind.”