DEPTH COACHING
Work With Drew
Limited availability. By discovery call only.
WHO I AM
I am a queer man, a reclaiming Xicano, and a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.
I have been inside the system I now work beyond. I was diagnosed. I was prescribed medications. I was shuffled through appointments. I did everything the system asked of me. And something in me still knew there was another path. I had no language for it and no one around me who had walked it. I found that path by living it, in my own body, in my own relationships, in the slow unwinding of the
Nearly a decade in my own depth work, and continuing. Every pattern I will name in you, I have met in myself first.
WHO I WORK WITH
For the moment insight is no longer enough.
The serious spiritual path.
You need a guide who can hold both the contemplative and the clinical. Who will not bypass with you. Who will not pathologize you. Who can be in the lineage with you without confusing the tradition for a technique.
Survivors of childhood trauma.
Especially if you are male-identifying, trans, or gender-expansive, and have been looking for a clinician who actually knows this terrain rather than learning on your time.
Queer, trans, and BIPOC identity work.
You are doing identity work in a culture that was not built for you, and you need someone who can read the architecture of that without you having to explain it.
Leaders, founders, professionals.
You know your ceiling is personal, not strategic. Your patterns at work are the same patterns at home. The next chapter is going to require something that cannot be performed.
Vocational and midlife thresholds.
You are in the slow undoing of a self that no longer fits, and you are tired of explaining what is happening to people who have not been there.
Years of inner work behind you.
You have done the reading, the workshops, the inquiry. You have arrived at the place where insight alone is no longer enough.
What unites the people who walk through this door is not what they bring. It is what they are willing to meet.
WHAT I BRING TO THE ROOM
I was assessed as one of the strongest clinicians my PhD program had seen in 30 years. I walked away to build something the field has not yet built.
The disciplines that most need to speak to each other rarely do.
Clinical
rigor
Somatic
intelligence
Contemplative
depth
Systems
literacy
What you will find in me is what happens when they are held together instead of kept apart.
The integration is not decorative. It is the work.
Three years of PhD-level clinical training in trauma, attachment, and identity. Over 1,000 supervised clinical hours. Training in psychodiagnostic assessment, which is to say training to see what is actually happening inside a person, not just what they know how to say. Trauma research at Yale University under one of the most prestigious trauma researchers in the country, focused on shame, masculinity, and the barriers to healing in marginalized communities. I built therapeutic group curricula with MenHealing, a nonprofit focused on male-identifying and queer-spectrum survivors of sexual abuse, because the people I most wanted to reach were not being reached by the work the field was doing.
Trained to see what is actually happening inside a person, not just what they know how to say.
My practice has always centered BIPOC communities, queer and trans folks, survivors, and those the system has most reliably failed.
This is not a niche. It is the center of the work.
The body is not an afterthought. It is where the work lives.
A registered yoga teacher, advanced meditation and yoga nidra teacher, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner in training. Months of study in India. The body is not an afterthought in my practice. It is where the work lives.
I have been building alternatives to broken systems my entire adult life.
Seeing systemic gaps has been my gift for as long as I have been leading. Over a decade ago, at 24, three months into my role at Teach For America, I saw the gap in how one of the country's premier leadership development organizations was developing leaders. I designed a research-backed coaching program that moved national metrics 44.5%. I saw that mental health was not being prioritized across the entire national TFA system. The program I co-designed in Connecticut became a national initiative that reached 8,000 people. For 15 years, I have been reading broken systems from the inside and building what was missing. I do this at the level of the individual, the relationship, and the organization. The survival architecture is the same at every scale. I was trained to read it. I have been building alternatives to it my entire adult life.
Healing is not a private achievement. It is a relational one.
What I carry was not made alone. It was formed by clinical supervisors who saw something in me before I could see it in myself, by my teacher Khushi Malhotra and her lineage who held me in practice much deeper than I could have found on my own, and by the communities who have taught me what no institution could. They taught me that healing is not a private achievement. It is a relational one. What I offer is not self-invented. It is received, practiced, and continuing to deepen.
HOW I NAVIGATE
The lenses through which I read every client.
Trauma and the Nervous System
Where survival lives in the body and where transformation happens. Somatic Experiencing, polyvagal-informed, because the body holds what the story cannot.
Attachment and Developmental Patterning
The templates your earliest relationships built, now running every relationship you enter. The threshold you are standing at now. We meet both in the room, not in theory.
Shadow and Parts Work
The exiled parts of you running the show from underground. The parts you banished did not leave. They went quiet, and they have been running you ever since.
Identity and Ego Structure
The self you constructed to survive is not the self you actually are. We meet the truer self underneath the performance.
Spirituality and Contemplative Depth
Reading the patterns that cause suffering and the deep grooves that don't yield to insight alone. Returning you to what is true beneath the conditioning. Ancient yogic teachings, applied in real time.
Systems Theory, Power, Oppression
Every person exists inside systems, and those systems live inside them. The survival adaptations shaped by racism, homophobia, misogyny, and colonialism are intelligent responses to unjust conditions, not pathologies. I read the architecture running your life at every scale it operates on.
These are not techniques I apply. They are how I see.
THE OFFERINGS
Three containers for the work.
Each one meets you where the work lives.
Individual Depth Coaching
For the recurring pattern that insight alone has not shifted. The grief that will not resolve. The relationship dynamic you cannot think your way out of. The part of yourself you manage instead of meet. We go where it lives. In the body, in the relational field, in the survival architecture you built before you had words for what was happening.
"The most significant thing Drew did for me was help me no longer feel ashamed of myself. For so long I thought I was this horrible person that deserved to be judged, punished and full of guilt. He helped me love myself again. Not only did he help me grow back into the person I deserved to be, he guided me towards trusting others again."
— STEPHANIE
$250 PER 60-MINUTE SESSION · FOUNDERS RATE
Couples Depth Work
For partners ready to move beyond communication techniques into the deeper architecture of how they love. The patterns each of you brought into the relationship are the patterns running it now. We meet them in real time. This is where relational patterns actually reshape. Not in theory, but in the lived moment of meeting each other without armor. All genders, orientations, and relationship structures welcome.
$275 PER 60-MINUTE SESSION · FOUNDERS RATE
"Drew was accessible and spoke to us like a friend, while providing helpful feedback and analysis of our relationship. He helped us define our values and better understand ourselves and each other, which led us to have much better communication and teamwork as a couple. The experience with Drew exceeded our expectations, and was by far the best therapy experience either of us had ever had."
— KATY AND MARV
Leadership and Organizational Consulting
For leaders, founders, and professionals who know their ceiling is not strategic. It is personal. The patterns that run your life are the same patterns that run your team, your organization, and your decisions. I bring 15 years of organizational leadership, systems analysis, and depth coaching into a single engagement. We work at the intersection where your personal architecture meets your professional one, and we change both.
INQUIRE FOR PRICING.
"I started off focused on getting help to motivate the teams I managed. It wasn't apparent to me at the time, but I had been allowing learned dysfunction to sabotage my attempts to live my values in every area of my life. Drew helped me through a process of unpacking the origin of my values. Our work together didn't change me. It actually helped me be who I already was. Kind of like deleting malware instead of uploading new software. My colleagues have told me I seem more at ease and generally happier."
— MITCHELL H.
THE OFFERINGS
The shape of an engagement.
The Intake
Every engagement begins with
The Wayfinding Compass
A proprietary multidimensional assessment I developed through the integration of PhD-level clinical training, yogic philosophy, and over 15 years of practice.
The Compass maps your current state across all seven pathways and produces three readings.
Where disconnection is most acute
Where your strongest resource lives
Where the accessible growth edge is emerging
This is not a questionnaire. It is the first intervention.
"Where did your body first learn it was not safe to be fully present?"
The act of being asked begins the work before we ever meet in session. From there, every session is alive. The frameworks serve the moment, not the other way around.
The Work Between Us
This work asks both of us to show up. I will be warm. I will also be direct. I will name what I see, even when it is uncomfortable.
What I ask is honesty. Not the rehearsed version of your story, but the one underneath it. And consistency. One session can open something. Sustained engagement is where identity actually reshapes.
INVESTMENT
Founders Rate.
Through June 2026. Rates rise in July.
Per 60-minute Session
Per 60-minute Session
Community Care is how Wayfinding is built.
For BIPOC community members, queer and trans folks, immigrants, and those impacted by state violence, displacement, or collective harm. No documentation required. Trust-based.
Leadership and Organizational Consulting
Sessions available in person in Bakersfield, California and via video.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Before you book.
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No. This is depth coaching: an integrative practice drawing from clinical training, somatic work, and contemplative tradition. I do not diagnose, treat mental health conditions, or accept insurance.
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60 minutes.
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Weekly or biweekly, depending on what the work is asking for. We decide together in the intake.
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Yes. Many clients work with me remotely.
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Book a discovery call. Thirty minutes. Free. Not a sales conversation.
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Sessions cancelled with less than 24 hours notice are charged in full.
"Drew compassionately guided and supported me through the beginning stages of uncovering my soul from years of codependency, trauma, and shame narratives. He knew, seemingly instinctively, when to assert and push me and when to yield, listen, and hold me up. I recommend working with Drew if you are looking for someone who will support and guide you to live and love yourself, others, and life more wholeheartedly."
— JOSH S.
BEGIN
Come as you are.
Every engagement starts with a discovery call. Thirty minutes. Free.
Not a sales conversation.
Limited availability.
CREDENTIALS & TRAINING
A decade of rigorous training.
i.Doctoral-level training in trauma, attachment, and identity.
Wayne State University, Community Psychology Clinic
In final clinical evaluation, assessed by Dr. Mark Lumley, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training (2005-2022), as one of the strongest clinicians he had ever seen in the program.
Three years, PhD in Clinical Psychology
Wayne State University. 3.9 GPA. Over 1,000 supervised clinical hours across individual, group, family, and couples work in adult and adolescent trauma therapy. Withdrew in good standing.
Yale University · Trauma Research
Under Dr. Joan Cook (PCORI-funded study on sexual and gender minority male survivors of sexual abuse). Motivational interviewing training under Dr. Steve Martino, Chief of Psychology, VA Connecticut Healthcare System.
Mala Child & Family Institute
Two-year clinical practicum under Dr. Hasti Raveau. Supervised eight clinical, counseling, and social work interns.
Modalities & Formal Training
My clinical practice draws most directly on psychodynamic and object relations theory, parts and shadow work, attachment frameworks, somatic-contemplative integration, and the yogic understanding of identity, suffering, and remembrance. Formal intensive training also includes Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Dr. Elissa Brown), Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD (Dr. Kathleen Chard), Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (Dr. Allan Abbass), Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and couples-specific work in Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method (Dr. Jonathan Blair, Director of the University of Michigan Psychological Clinic's Couples Intervention Program).
Psychological Assessment
Trained in comprehensive psychological assessment, including cognitive and intellectual testing, attention and executive functioning evaluation, personality and clinical disorder batteries, and therapeutic assessment. Specific intensive in the MMPI-3 with co-author Dr. Yossef Ben-Porath.
MenHealing & FORGE · Curriculum Co-Creator
Trained in comprehensive psychological assessment, including cognitive and intellectual testing, attention and executive functioning evaluation, personality and clinical disorder batteries, and therapeutic assessment. Specific intensive in the MMPI-3 with co-author Dr. Yossef Ben-Porath.
ii.Years of practice and study in lineage.
Himalayan Tantric Tradition
Lineage holder under my teacher Khushi Malhotra. Ongoing study, including months of study in India.
Certified Meditation Instructor
Under Khushi Malhotra. An eight-month, 100-hour advanced training in the transmission of yoga nidra and meditative states, anchored in the Himalayan Institute lineage of Pandit Rajmani Tigunait.
Registered Yoga Teacher
RYT-200.
Somatic Experiencing
Practitioner training, in progress, under Alicen Halquist, MA, LPC, SEP.
ii.A decade inside large institutions.
UCLA · B.S. Human Biology and Society
Departmental Academic Honors. Chancellor's Service Award (200 of 5,700 graduating seniors).
Teach For America · Connecticut Corps
7% national acceptance rate. Sue Lehmann Teaching Fellowship Connecticut State Finalist, top 4 of 100 second-year corps members in the state. Selected in second year of teaching to lead district-wide professional development for New Haven Public Schools.
Manager of Teacher Leadership Development, TFA Connecticut · Two Years
Designed and facilitated The Leader In You, a research-grounded leadership development program for first-year teachers integrating identity development, vulnerability research, peer coaching pedagogy, and validated psychometric measurement. Pilot cohort produced a 32% increase on national TFA culture metrics against a control-group decline of 74%. Scaled across three Connecticut cities.
Manager of Operations and Learning, TFA Connecticut · Two Years
Held strategy, talent, finance, and learning for the regional core staff. Managed a $5 million regional budget. Designed a statewide mental health and wellness initiative providing unlimited counseling for 200 teachers and staff. Co-designed and helped scale a three-year national mental health pilot serving 8,000 educators.
ii.Voice in the field beyond the room.
Conference Presentations
American Psychological Association annual conference, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the True Colors Conference, and the Association for Women in Psychology.
Mad in America · Freelance Journalism
Under the mentorship of Bob Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic.