ABOUT ALEX
Threshold Guide • Initiation Facilitator • Therapist • Founder of Medicine & Magic
Helping people remember their Medicine, move through life's thresholds, and create a Magical life filled with more meaning, authenticity, and abundance.
Welcome
You're probably not here because you need more information.
You're here because something in your life is asking for change.
Maybe you're healing from trauma, or standing at a crossroads, or maybe you're tired of repeating the same patterns.
You've achieved success and discovered it isn't enough.
AÂ deeper part of you definitely knows there is more to this life than survival.
Whatever brought you here, welcome.
My work is devoted to helping people navigate the thresholds of transformation: the moments when an old way of being is falling away and something new is trying to emerge.
Medicine & Magic
At the center of everything I do is a philosophy I call Medicine & Magic.
Medicine is not simply what heals us. Medicine is our deepest nature. It is the gifts we came into this world carrying.
Our authenticity and truth.Â
Our unique way of being in right-relationship with ourselves, others, the living world around us, and with the unseen mysteries that many cultures have honored throughout history.
Trauma, fear, conditioning, and survival can cause us to forget our Medicine.
But It cannot be destroyed.
The work is not to become someone else.
The work is to remember who you have always been, at the core.
Magic is what happens when we begin living from that place.
It is the synchronicities that seem impossible to explain. The unexpected opportunities, that pop up.
The relationships that arrive at precisely the right moment. The creative breakthroughs that flow through us effortlessly.
The feeling that life is no longer something happening to you, but something unfolding through you.
Medicine is who you are.
Magic is what becomes possible when you fully embody it.
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Throughout history, every culture recognized that transformation happens through thresholds.
The threshold between adolescence and adulthood.
The threshold between grief and renewal.
The threshold between the life you've outgrown and the life that is waiting for you.
These passages were often supported by elders, guides, healers, storytellers, and initiators who helped people navigate uncertainty and emerge transformed.
That is how I understand my role.
As a Threshold Guide and Initiation Facilitator, I help people move consciously through the transitions that life presents: trauma, loss, burnout, divorce, career change, spiritual awakening, identity shifts, the call toward a more authentic life.
These experiences can feel disorienting.
They can also become powerful initiations.
If these resonate with you reach out and connect
My Path
I didn't come to this work because I had life figured out. Far from it.
I came to it through grief, trauma, loss, and my own search for meaning.
After the death of my parents and my own experiences with trauma, I spent years searching for support that felt both deeply human and deeply skilled.
Some of it helped, a lot of it didn't.
What I longed for was a space where psychology and soul could coexist.
After a lot of searching and struggling to find what I needed I decided, “If I can find what I need, I’ll become it myself.”
A place where I didn't have to leave parts of myself at the door.
That search eventually led me into psychology, trauma healing, mythology, shamanic practices, contemplative traditions, animistic worldviews, ritual practice, plant medicine, indigenous teachings, world travel, and the lifelong process of remembering my own Medicine and Magic.
The work I offer today is an expression of that journey.
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How I Work
My work sits at the intersection of psychology, embodiment, spirituality, and transformation.
I draw from trauma-informed approaches including EMDR, ACT, ART, Internal Family Systems-informed work, somatic healing, mindfulness, psychedelic preparation and integration, ritual, mythology, and meaning-making.
Therapy and Healing Intensives are some of the tools I use, but healing not the destination.
Healing often creates the conditions for people to remember their Medicine and Magic.
More important than any modality is the quality of presence we create together.
We move at the speed of safety.
Healing happens when people feel safe enough to be honest, curious enough to explore, and supported enough to grow.
Life Beyond
Beyond the work I do, I am a husband, father to fur-babies, geek, and adventurer.Â
Travel, wilderness, and adventure have shaped me as much as any formal training.
I've traveled to more than 40 countries across six continents, sailed the Pacific Rim, scuba-dived the Great Barrier Reef, tracked mountain lions in Argentina, and caught wild crocodiles by hand in Africa.
Again and again, these experiences have reminded me that life is far larger, stranger, and more mysterious than we often remember.
They continue to deepen my respect for resilience, wonder, and the many ways human beings create meaning in an uncertain world.
Credentials & Experience
• Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CMHC) in Utah
• 20+ Years Working in Psychology
• EMDR Trained
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
• Natural Processing (Somatic-Focused EMDR)
• Internal Family Systems-Informed
• Psychedelic Preparation & Integration
• MAPS Trained (Pilot Program)
• Salt City Psychedelic Training & Research (SCPTR)
• Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy Trained
• Reiki II Certified
• Shamanic and Animist training from various elders around the globe.Â
• Experience in Hospitals, Residential Treatment, Community Mental Health, and Private Practice
A Final Thought
At its heart, this work is about remembering.
Remembering who you were before fear became your organizer.
Before survival became your identity.
Before you learned to abandon parts of yourself in order to belong.
The goal is not perfection.
The goal is not endless self-improvement.
The goal is to reclaim your Medicine.
And from that place, create a life that feels fully, authentically, and unapologetically your own.
That is where the Magic begins.
And that, to me, is what it means to bloom.
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