Selected Journalism
Therapy Needs Therapy; Neuroscience Can Help. New York Times
How ‘Coaching’ Became Silicon Valley’s Hack for Therapy. New York Times Magazine
The Socratic Shrink, New York Times Magazine
A Tale of Paradise, Parking Lots, and My Mother’s Backyard. New York Times Magazine
Off the Road. New York Times Magazine
All I Wanted Was for Alice Waters to Feed Me, New York Times Magazine
Why More Men Are Joining the Ranks of Therapists, The Guardian
Books
Yosemite Falls: Reckoning with California History and the Legacy of John Muir (forthcoming, North Point/FSG, 2026)
A Mouth Like Yours, A Novel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005)
El Capitan (Chronicle Books, 2001)
Looking for Mo, A Novel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998)
Caught Inside, A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast (North Point Press, 1996)
Lighting Out, A Vision of California and the Mountains (Graywolf Press, 1994; 2nd ed. Mountaineers Books, 2016)
Scholarship
• Predict to Control, Test to Master: Integrating Predictive Processing and Control–Mastery Theory in Understanding How Psychotherapy Works. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 2026
Podcasts and Documentary Film
Guest Appearances: