Aaron has a bachelors degree in psychology and master's degree in mental health counseling from Western Washington University.  His focus in higher education and research was cultural psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and developmental psychology.  While Aaron studied many cultures and their psychology, his focus was on American Indigenous approaches to psychological health.  Under the mentorship of two highly acclaimed and distinguished American Indigenous professors (Joseph Trimble PhD & Jeff King PhD), he quickly became versed in the vast cultural research available to him. 

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Since his teens, Aaron has been mentored in American Indigenous cultural techniques used to address sickness and health. Aaron shares these techniques in his programs and counseling with permission from his elders.  With that said, there are things he has been taught that he does not have permission to teach and does not teach.