Know Thy Healing opened in January 2026 as the home for my naturopathic practice. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of guiding individuals and families seeking terrain-based, holistic care.

My path into this began with childhood curiosity. Ever since I was young, health was one of the few subjects that consistently captured my attention. I was fascinated by the mind and body, by what made people feel better, and by the way a single insight could change someone’s understanding of themselves. Even early on, I loved sharing what I was learning. There was something deeply meaningful to me about offering someone a new perspective, a helpful principle, or a practical piece of information that might support their health in a real way.

Like many people who eventually find their way into holistic health, my path included several “waking up” moments. I began to see that the dominant model of healthcare had become very good at naming problems, but far less interested in understanding what created them. I realized that most conventional approaches to health were, to put it kindly, missing the mark. This eventually led me toward terrain-based healing, naturopathy, and the wider world of traditional and holistic medicine that had always existed, even though I had never been taught about it.

My own health challenges became part of that education. For years, I dealt with chronic low back pain, insomnia, brain fog, midday crashes, addictions, anxiety, and a few other issues that forced me to step back and reconsider what health and healing truly require. Over time, I was able to heal, overcome, and release those challenges on both the physical and psychological levels through natural healing principles and a terrain-based approach. These personal experiences humbled me. They taught me to really examine the way I live, the burdens I carry, the patterns I keep repeating, and the relationship I have with body, mind, and heart.

That is where my deeper study began. I became devoted to understanding health from both directions: the things that damage and weaken the body, and the things that nourish, rebuild, and revitalize the body. I explored many different systems of medicine and healing traditions, and spent a great deal of time studying the various environmental toxicities and lifestyle patterns that shape a person’s health over time.

One idea that has deeply resonated with me is the classical Chinese ideal of the physician—not just as someone who possessed medical knowledge, but as someone who had devoted themselves to the study of life itself.

The physician was not understood to be a technician of the body. They were expected to become something closer to a sage: a person whose knowledge of healing arose from a much larger understanding of nature, balance, harmony, rhythm, meaning, seasonal cycles, cosmology, and the place of the individual within the greater order of life.

Underlying much of this worldview was the ancient Chinese concept of the Dao—the Way: the natural order and unfolding of life itself. Rather than seeing health as something that could simply be imposed upon the body from the outside, the physician sought to understand the patterns already operating within Nature and to work in accordance with them.

This was closely related to the Daoist principle of wu wei, often translated as “effortless action” or “action without forcing.” Wu wei did not mean passivity or doing nothing. It meant learning to act with such an understanding of Nature that one's intervention worked with its movement rather than against it—knowing when to act, when to nourish, when to remove an obstruction, and when to simply allow a natural process to unfold.

The physician therefore had to embody and transmit these understandings. They observed not only what was happening in the body, but what larger pattern it belonged to: why it may have arisen, what direction it was moving in, what relationships had become disrupted, and what conditions might allow the person to return to a more harmonious way of functioning.

In this sense, the art of the physician was not simply the art of correcting the body. It was the art of understanding the Way of things—of perceiving the rhythms and relationships through which life organizes itself, and learning how to intervene without unnecessarily interfering with the intelligence already present within the living system.

I take all of this deeply to heart. It is this classical ideal of the physician—as healer, philosopher, sage, observer, and lifelong student of life—that continues to steer my growth as a naturopath.

Alongside my practice, I continue to study forgotten ways of living and healing, music, natural law, cosmology, archetypes, mysticism, religion, numerology, history, gematria, equity jurisprudence, logic, ontology, and several other subjects I’ll spare you from listing here.

Much of my knowledge and success has come through direct relationships and mentorship with brilliant holistic doctors, pioneers of natural medicine, and practitioners who walked a similar path before me. I owe much to them.

I practice what I teach, and I never recommend anything I have not personally done or would not be willing to do myself.

Outside of my work, I am a husband to the most loving wife, a piano player, and a soon-to-be father. I have experience in music production and sound engineering, both of which I hope to return to one day. I was born and raised in the western suburbs outside of Chicago, where I currently live, and spent about eight years living in California, New York, and Michigan as well.

Thank you for taking the time to learn a bit more about me. I would love the opportunity to learn about you as well, and to see how I can support you on your path toward optimal health. Keep scrolling to find out more about who I help and how I approach my practice.