Biography
"Kent is a creative, highly intuitive and compassionate presence. His deep connection with nature, extensive education and training, and his initiation as a true healer, allowed for my experience to go far beyond traditional therapeutic modalities. I am forever grateful." ~ SB, Santa Fe, NM 
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As a seasoned board-licensed non-dual psychotherapist, I’ve dedicated the past 30 years to maintaining a private practice in Colorado and New Mexico.
Throughout my journey, I’ve been on a spiritual path, expanding my personal awareness and seeking guidance from the Soul. I believe that our biology responds to our consciousness, and every thought we have directs energy. My goal is to assist my clients in creating self-healing bodies, emotions, and minds. Growing up in rural western Colorado, I spent endless time in nature. My family was incredibly supportive of each other, encouraging adventure, diversity, and the development of our individual perspectives and self-sufficiency while continually promoting a healthy home environment. In my prime, I was an elite runner and cyclist, and I continue to maintain a high level of fitness through mountain and road cycling, ecstatic dance, yoga, and core conditioning. I was born with a vision and a healing gift, and I combine my extensive clinical skills with this innate ability. I’ve collaborated with Native American and First Nations Medicine Men and women, scholars, and tribes. I resided on Dine’ (also known as Navajo) land from 1978 to 1991 and again from 2010 to 2014. While there by invitation, I photographed, learned, and collaborated with elders, artists, healers, and even put cameras in the hands of indigenous children. This collaboration with various wisdom keepers continues, and occasionally, I bring workshops with indigenous colleagues to the public. The simplicity of silence in natural surroundings calms my mind, allowing my intuitive core and spiritual energy to be refined. My natural curiosity drives me to seek wisdom related to creating a self-healing body, mind, and balanced lifestyle. Growing up around photographers and healers, I continue to pursue my passion for capturing images as a professional documentary photographer. I travel the world, creating bodies of work through grants and commercial funding sources. My visual work expanded a dozen years ago into videography. After discovering the Dine’ (Navajo) reservation in 1978, I resided there until 1991. During my time there, I was invited to photograph, collaborate with elders, artists, healers, and even put cameras in the hands of indigenous children. This collaboration with various wisdom keepers continues, and occasionally, workshops led by indigenous medicine men are offered to the public. Most recently, I directed the installation of an Indigenous Wilderness program for adolescent young men from various tribes across the Southwest. A significant portion of my private practice work is dedicated to ceremonial work as a healing modality. These visionary gifts align with my innate nature and are further solidified through Native American healers and spiritual teachers during my global travels. My workshop and adjunct professor topics have encompassed wilderness therapy, somatic movement, sacred sexuality, ecstatic dance/IFS, soul talk, consciousness, and navigating the higher dimensions as a way of life. Additionally, I am an acclaimed published documentary photographer. I have taught soup to nuts photography at various colleges and the SummerVail Art Institute. My grant-funded projects include documenting homesteaders in the Vail Valley, sacred sites for various Native American tribes throughout the Southwest, and the sense of community within Western Colorado communities. My photo work at: Kentart.com I work with individuals, couples, families, those I mentor, and within workshops. Schedule here: in person (Paonia, CO) and via Zoom. My training and life experiences:
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