About Geoff
The psychospiritual healing work I do with my clients began in 1972 as a freshman in college. I took a course in clinical psychology, and saw that there was a deep need for a psychology of love, one that understands human behavior not as a series of mechanisms and disorders but rather as an expression of how well love is or is not working in one's life, relationships, and family. I committed my life then to creating that very thing.
Over the next two decades, I developed as a graphic designer, musician, dancer, and massage therapist—laying a foundation of creativity and embodiment while working through the deep wounds of my own childhood. In the mid-70s, I began spontaneously doing inner child and reparenting work, listening to the lost voice of my younger self and learning how to nurture him with emotional maturity, masculine warmth, and soul trust.
In 1986, I was ‘discovered’ by an intuitive counselor who recognized my natural gift for reading people’s emotional and spiritual processes. That same year, I received a rare Buddhist initiation into the Red Tara practice from Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, who required a full, conscious commitment to the healing of all humanity. I stayed—and that vow still lives in my heart.
In 1990, I completed a six-month training in Integrative Breathwork and Emotional Healing, which became the foundation of Doing Your Work, the program I’ve practiced and taught ever since. I became one of the early pioneers of psychospiritual life coaching—offering a heart-centered, trauma-informed alternative to conventional therapy.
Since then, I’ve guided hundreds of clients through their own emotional, relational, and ancestral healing journeys. I’ve worked full-time with clients since 1998. My healing philosophy is grounded in real life: I am a C-PTSD survivor, a cancer survivor, and a man who has walked through loss, grief, awakening, and love. I spent 15 years in a committed partnership dedicated to second-family healing and breaking inherited trauma cycles. Our final year together was one of profound spiritual light before her passing in 2014. Today, I am in a new marriage rooted in creativity, spiritual growth, and shared joy.
My approach blends breathwork, intuitive guidance, emotional literacy, reparenting, boundary repair, grief integration, and relational transformation. I help clients identify where their authentic self has been blocked—and provide tools to nurture those parts back into wholeness. I believe that with the right support, every person can reclaim the right to breathe, feel, speak, and love freely.
My work is heart-centered, emotionally sober, and committed to one sacred aim: helping people heal the dysfunction they inherited, take empowered ownership of their lives, and create loving relationships and families that thrive.