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 — believing that in that curiosity and friction, there is something else for you. 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

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

• Board Member, The Northwest Alliance of Psychoanalytic Study

• International Forum of Psychoanalytic Education