-Hypnosis and the Use of Trance-states in the Creative Process
-Intra-personal Communication (Theories of Ambiguity and the Self)
-Human Sexuality & Philosophies of Desire
-Alchemy and Practices of Transformation
-Existentialism/Phenomenology
-Comparative Religion/Mysticism
-The Impulse of Ritual
-The Construction of Childhood or the Illusion of Purity
-Semiotics
-Fairytales, Folklore and the Embodied Metaphor

(bibliographies for each subject soon to be added)

The Distillery Program of the Brew House Association

Milieu Therapist for Adult Inpatient Care at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic

B.A. in Individualized Study from the Gallatin School of New York University 2005
Post-Baccalaureate in Studio Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art 2007