Are you ready for a breakthrough?

I work with business leaders, health professionals, and seekers who want to show up more fully in their work and lives. You’ve overcome so many challenges to get where you are. The next stage of your journey is all within.

I use a mindfulness-based Internal Family Systems approach that achieves big breakthroughs. My highest aim is to help you step into your truth and find that everything you need is already within you.

Get the Results to Go Further in Your Life

Deeper Presence

Our sessions together will bring you in touch with your core, authentic self, which will allow you to be more centered and grounded as you show up in the way your team and clients need you.
Clarity & Perspective

Each of our sessions will connect you more deeply with your inner wisdom, giving you clarity on longstanding, frustrating problems in your work and life. You will discover that you have all the answers you need inside.
Thriving Relationships

As you become more accepting and open to all that is inside, you will become more accepting and open to everyone in your life. You’ll find spontaneous moments of connection and caring simply emerge.
Ease & Flow

The more you learn about your own emotional system, the more room you will feel inside. As more space opens up inside, you will begin to breathe, move, and rest with ease.
Energy & Creativity

You will discover that all the energy and creativity you need in your life is already in you. It’s just covered and constricted by parts of you that have needed to protect, manage, and control. Together, we’ll let these parts relax and your natural energy flow.
Meaning & Purpose

As you move deeper into emotional processing, you will find that your life is bursting with meaning; you just haven’t felt it fully because you haven’t taken the risk of connecting fully with your True Self. Our sessions together will help you take that risk.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

- Carl Jung

What I do

I have a PhD from UCLA in the social sciences and a second PhD from UC Irvine in the health sciences. Outside of my work as a cofounder of Yes Collective and MaxLove Project, I do Internal-Family-Systems-based emotional health coaching with professionals who are looking to do deeper inner work to show up more fully in every aspect of their lives.

In my day-to-day work, I use my scientific training to translate complex and cutting edge mental and emotional health research and therapeutic tools for busy parents. I also continue to create and manage programs for Maxlove Project, a childhood cancer nonprofit my wife and I cofounded after our son was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2011.

Through Maxlove Project, I began in 2014 to work with parents experiencing medical crises and have since trained in Internal Family Systems, emotional processing, mindfulness practices, strengths-based coaching techniques, authentic relating, and breathwork. Over these years, I’ve developed a personalized guided awareness practice called the OPEN Method that helps people unpack emotionally defensive and protective parts of themselves and process and heal emotional wounds.

I call this work emotional health because, like physical health, it takes time, knowledge, and commitment but pays off with feelings of vitality, resilience, and a sense of flow. As an emotional health coach, I guide people in safely and securely breaking down old patterns, healing old wounds, and reconnecting with their highest wisdom and deepest, truest selves.

The emotional health you’ll experience will utimately result in a smooth, high-functioning, and vibrant inner world that allows you to show up exactly as your team, clients, and family need you.

Click below to learn more about my practice and approach to emotional processing and emotional fitness.

About Me

What People Experience

“Despite 20+ years of talk therapy, after just a few sessions with Justin, for the first time in my life, I knew that I was healing. His coaching method has completely changed the way I show up in life, for myself and everyone around me.”
“Coaching with Justin has been transformative, awakening, powerful and healing. He has a unique ability to hold space and guide, simultaneously allowing me to own my own healing.”
“Working with Justin has done more for me than years of therapy. He takes you on a journey to get to know yourself better, find your True Self and learn to love and accept all of you.”
“Justin created a safe coaching space that allowed me to process through difficult emotions. Thank you for providing me the opportunity to actually slow down, pause, and feel into my internal wisdom!”
“This would benefit anyone. Emotional processing with Justin has changed my life more than I can explain. I have so much more peace, self-compassion, and clarity.”
“Working with Justin has been a paradigm-shifting, life-enhancing experience. I've discovered parts of myself that I always intuitively felt were there, but didn't know how to access.”
“Emotional processing with Justin has been life changing. I’ve begun to understand so much about myself. It has changed my outlook on my life, my marriage, and raising my kids.”
“I am amazed at how much I learned about myself and my emotional system after only a couple of sessions. I recommend this type of emotional processing for anyone looking to really understand what’s going on inside.”
“After our first session I couldn’t believe how great I felt. I felt lighter, like I let free a part of me that was caged. I think anyone who is ready to do deep inner work would benefit from Justin’s coaching.”
“What surprised me the most is that I am no longer triggered by certain external events that before brought me a lot of anxiety and agitation. Now, I’m able to analyze the situation with clarity and take actions as needed.”
“Justin’s work is respectful, steady, articulate, deep, and patient. My breakthrough with him allowed me to treat myself and external situations with more patience and clarity, and my family with a higher level of appreciation and love.”

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What you need to know

If you are a professional who is ready to do deeper self work to show up for the people you lead and serve with your authentic, true self then Internal Family Systems coaching is a perfect fit. You don’t need any more strategies, skills, and plans. You need help going deeper inside, unpacking old emotional patterns, healing old wounds, and connecting with your authentic, true self.
Clients have reported changes in three common areas of their lives. Personal emotional wellness is the first result clients experience. They feel it as a sense of spaciousness, calm, and freedom inside. Second, clients report feeling less triggered, distant, and controlling with family and loved ones. They experience deeper connection and more uncomplicated moments of love. Third, clients’ work relationships change as they become calmer, more curious, and more present with their team and clients. As they begin to heal emotional wounds and old patterns, they see that what their team and clients need is for them to show up with their full, authentic self.
You’ll begin with a 4-session Foundational Package in addition to a 55-minute intake session. The first four sessions will be scheduled in consecutive weeks, but then after you can schedule at a pace that feels right to you. You’ll be given journaling and optional reading and meditation homework that should take no more than an additional one hour per week. Most of your homework will focus on weaving awareness practices into your daily life, and thus will require no additional time commitment.
The sessions can be held on Zoom or by phone, which ever you prefer. We’ll begin with a brief conversation about emotionally relevant events in your life, and then we’ll begin a closed-eyes awareness practice that allows you to get to know your inner system. We start with relaxing breathwork, and then move into observing whatever is happening emotionally and physically for you. We then move to the heart of the practice, which is processing deep emotions through guided inquiry and awareness techniques. The aim of this practice is to first facilitate a clear and rich understanding of your inner world, and then make more space inside for deeper emotional healing. . We’ll end by debriefing about the session and discussing next steps.