About Curtis

As a young man, I was standing in the hallowed halls of Stanford University on a dark winter’s morning when I hit my first wall.

I was attending Stanford because it was my family’s alma mater. My parents had high hopes for me becoming a doctor, attorney or businessman to carry on the family tradition of success.

In that moment, though, I knew I could no longer live their dream. It wasn’t working for me to follow a path that was not mine.

Instead of turning right into my organic chemistry classroom, I turned left and exited the building into an unknown future.

I never went back.

My soul was longing for me to make a difference in how humans engaged with difficult emotional issues. My sister’s suicide was a wakeup call that led me to the work of my heart. Helping people face and overcome suffering so they could find peace within themselves and engage fully with the world.

I became licensed as a Marriage & Family therapist and worked hard helping people in this way for many years. Eventually though, I knew something was missing for me in this work.

I believe we are all called to continually expand into our highest selves, to have a meaningful impact in the world. I wanted to help people achieve that. I learned about life coaching and became certified as a Co-Active Coach.

I worked for years to integrate the two modalities into an offer that helps people face and heal from emotional pain and then move forward into a purposeful life. 

On a personal level, I found I needed to heal myself in order to help others. I went on a spiritual quest that has included Native American ceremonies, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Buddhism and New Though spirituality.

I also did a lot of relationship and emotional healing work to learn to manage my own pain and emotional reactivity.