Our Story
Alpine Integrative Wellness was born in 2020 from two people who believed that Idaho deserved better.
Not just more therapists — better therapy. Therapy that goes beneath the surface. That doesn’t just teach you to cope, but actually asks why. That understands the body holds what the mind can’t always reach. That isn’t afraid to sit with you in the hard places, and isn’t afraid to challenge you there, either.
We are Eryn and Daniel — co-founders, partners, and the people behind everything Alpine has become.
Eryn
Eryn came to this work the long way — and that’s exactly why she’s good at it.
She grew up a military kid — a Colonel’s daughter who moved constantly, learned early how to read a room, and developed a hunger to understand the world. She studied international affairs, lived in South America, and was marked by what she witnessed there: the weight of suffering that goes unmet, the resilience of people with very little, the gap between those who receive care and those who don’t. That gap has never stopped driving her.
It led her first to yoga and meditation — to the discovery that the body is not separate from the story, that breath can unlock what words cannot reach. Standing at the front of a room watching people transform, she knew she had found the right territory. She just needed to go deeper.
Eryn went on to earn her Master’s in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies — one of the few graduate programs in the country that takes seriously both the science of the psyche and the mystery of the human spirit. She then earned her doctorate in somatic psychology, and spent nearly two decades immersed in the most rigorous and integrative approaches in the field: family systems, attachment theory, psychodynamics, the psychophysiology of trauma, and the psychospiritual dimensions of the human experience that most clinical training programs don’t dare touch.
She is, simply put, the real thing — in a field where that matters enormously and isn’t always easy to find.
When Eryn looked at the mental health landscape in Idaho, she saw the same gap she had always seen — just closer to home. People sitting across from therapists who were well-intentioned but underprepared. For trauma, for complexity, for the depth that genuine healing requires. She knew she could do something about that. Not just by seeing clients herself, but by building a place that raised the bar — a training ground as much as a practice, where the next generation of therapists would learn that their own inner development is inseparable from their clinical effectiveness.
That vision is now alive in Alpine’s postgraduate training program, where we train and supervise clinicians in integrative psychotherapy — equipping them with the depth, rigor, and self-awareness that the field too rarely demands. It is some of the most important work we do. Eryn is currently distilling this framework into written form — a larger transmission of the approach that has shaped Alpine from the beginning.
Daniel
Daniel’s story begins in the Bay Area — but it truly opened in the mountains.
As a boy, Daniel’s father took him backpacking in the Sierra Nevada, and he later completed a 30-day wilderness course with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Those early trips planted something deep — a sense that the wilderness could hold you, challenge you, and show you who you were in ways that ordinary life couldn’t. That knowing never left him.
When Daniel went to Lewis & Clark College in Portland, the thread continued. There, he worked for their robust outdoor program, leading a variety of trips — including their first meditation retreat. What began as a child walking in the Sierras with his father had become a calling. He went on to work for NOLS and, later, for Open Sky Wilderness Therapy. He attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, a legendary contemplative institution where clinical training is inseparable from inner inquiry. He spent more years working in wilderness therapy, sitting with young people during some of their hardest moments, in landscapes vast enough to hold it all.
Nature wasn’t a backdrop for Daniel — it was his first teacher. And that understanding of what it means to be met by something larger than yourself, to be humbled and held simultaneously, informs the way he shows up in every room he enters.
How We Found Each Other
The two of us met on a meditation retreat.
It is not lost on us that this is where we found each other — in a space of stillness, intention, and the sincere desire to know ourselves more fully. That lineage runs through everything Alpine is. It is why we believe that who the therapist is matters as much as what they know. It is why we ask our clinicians to do their own work — to sit with their own discomfort, to develop themselves not just professionally but as human beings. The inner life of the practitioner is not separate from the healing offered to the client. We have always known this. We built a practice around it.
Both of us are also parents — and raising children while holding this work has only deepened our commitment to it. There is nothing like watching a small person grow to remind you what is actually at stake. It keeps us honest. It keeps us humble. And it reminds us every day why this work matters.
What You’ll Find Here
Alpine opened its doors in Ketchum in 2020 — weeks before the world changed. What we couldn’t have known then was how desperately that moment would prove our point: that people need real support, rooted in real skill, delivered by practitioners who are continuously growing themselves.
What you will find here is a team of clinicians who are carefully selected, rigorously trained, and deeply supervised. Clinicians who understand that healing is not linear, that the body is not separate from the psyche, that your history lives in your nervous system as much as in your memory, and that real transformation requires both compassion and courage — from you and from us.
We love our clients. We are also willing to tell you the truth. We will walk with you through the fog — and when you can’t see the next step, we will help you find it.
Where We’re Going
We have grown since those early days — across the Wood River Valley and into the Treasure Valley — but the vision has only expanded. We want Alpine to be a lighthouse: a place people find when they are lost, when they are ready, when they finally want to do the real work.
Our commitment is not only to the people in our chairs, but to the future of this field — to training world-class clinicians and, one day, making this quality of care accessible to as many people as possible. The gap between the care that exists and the care that most people can access has never stopped driving us. It is why we built Alpine. It is why we keep building it. We’re glad you found us.
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