Mike offers spiritual guidance to people coming from a variety of spiritual backgrounds and interests. Mike is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest and Dharma Holder (Assistant Teacher) under the guidance of Gerry Shishin Wick Roshi. Mike began meditating in 1992 and became a formal Buddhist practitioner in 2003. Mike has lived in monasteries for 10 of his 20+ years of Zen training. Mike served as a spiritual counselor at The Harmony Foundation, a residential addiction treatment center in Estes Park, CO.
Mike teaches and guides students through the stages of meditation and integration of meditation into daily life. He uses Gestalt psychotherapy, Voice Dialogue, psychedelic therapy, interpersonal-relational unfolding, and other psychospiritual modalities to facilitate deep transformation.