Who's Caleb?

I realized early on that I love and come alive more fully when I connect with others about the real things of life and what it means to live and experience it. About three-quarters of the way through my technical counseling studies, I realized that my studies didn’t get at what I believe to be the core of life: beauty, struggle, pain, loneliness, and emotional experiences. I put my technical studies aside and began another degree where I explored the human condition and what it means, for me, most of all, to be alive and living meaningfully. Being a lifelong competitive athlete I have tended to always push against that growing edge.

I think of myself as an interpersonal existentialist. All that to say, I focus on the experience of what it’s like to be you in your life, as you’re with me, as I’m with my own life and experience. Believing that in that curiosity and difference, that is sometimes friction, something begins to come to life again. Ultimately, though, to live is to relate, and that begins with the relationship that pre-exists and is cultivated between the two of us.

I consider myself one who is still journeying toward making sense of life and all its complexities. I’ve found life at times to be immensely painful, but even within this is a timeless truth that the beauty we seek is born from the dross or bog of life. The life we seek is found within and through our experiences. I have given everything to this work and gained far more. All this to say that I genuinely believe in the power of conversation and relationship, and I’ve given my life to it and, in doing so have found myself.

I have experience working with:

Depression
Obsession / Compulsion
Fear of abandonment
Difficulties within relationship
Anxiety
Panic Attacks
Creativity / Artists
Trauma
Low Self-Esteem / Self-Worth
Dependency / Co-Dependency
Spirituality
Learning Difficulties
Performance Issues / Athletes
Loneliness

Education/Training

• M.A. in Counseling, M.A. in Theology and Culture from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology

• Ph.D - All But Dissertation, from Saybrook University

• Basic Certificate in Existential Analysis from the EASC

• Certificate in Existential Humanistic Psychology from the Existential Humanistic Institute

Professional Membership

• Existential Analysis Society of Canada (EASC), an affiliate of GLE International

• Society of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology: Division 39 of the American Psychological Association

• The Northwest Alliance of Psychoanalytic Study

• International Forum of Psychoanalytic Education