The HOME Team
Who we are
No Place Like Home
The HOME team serves as guides and mentors, facilitators and healers to all those who truly want their families to flourish. In our collective culture where it is easier to blame, stay in emotional dysregulation, and look for excuses, HOME believes in compassionately closing the escape hatches and guiding people into a place of relational integrity, emotional awareness, and soulful awakening.
The word “mentor” comes from Greek mythology. When Odysseus left home, he asked his trusted friend, Mentor, to guide and protect his son, Telemachus. Odyssus was asking Mentor to be the guardian of his legacy.
The word “mentor” is important to us at HOME. It signifies that we walk beside those we serve. We are guardians of people’s soulful journeys. Recognizing how their soul has been under attack by inner and outer forces, we work to protect and stoke that sacred spark. Family members on this journey recast the trajectory of family culture for generations.
This is the path HOME.
Meet The Home Team
Karen J. Benjack
Co-Founder
Chief Therapeutic Officer
As a gifted therapeutic guide, Karen works closely with family members impacted by trauma, grief, addictive processes, and mental health challenges. She integrates transpersonal psychology, meaning-centered psychotherapy, mindfulness, systems work, and mystical wisdom to emphasize the importance of connection, acceptance, safety, and compassion. While versed in a variety of modalities, Karen approaches psychic and relational woundedness from a holistic perspective which enhances long-term thriving for individuals and families. She calls her unique approach “heart-and-soul-centered-healing”. Her clients simply call it life-changing.
With Master degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work, Karen invites her clients to explore, integrate, and heal the parts of themselves they have banished and rejected. She has a deep appreciation for “compunctio” - the holy pain which creates a bittersweetness and wisdom. Karen recognizes that healing, and life itself, is about a descent and a rising, a holding of the tension between sorrow and beauty, pain and joy.
Karen encourages people to see their deepest wounds as a portal through which is found a homecoming to one’s authentic self. She holds her clients’ stories like she does her own, with gentle reverence. Her presence allows others to feel safe. As a result, they awaken to what is emerging within by embracing their shadow sides with compassion, taking action to live in concert with their values, and alchemizing shame and blame into acceptance and empathy. Her approach blends mind-body-heart-and-soul, leaning heavily into somatic practices that regulate, soothe, and anchor.
As a therapeutic presence who worked on the front line of the HIV epidemic, served as an executive coach in the inner sanctums of boardrooms, and now guides family members to heal by turning the mirror on themselves, Karen’s superpower is that she does not look away. She leans in. She lovingly holds the very wounds many people are afraid to look at; in this is found a belonging that satisfies the longing we humans all have. As a wounded healer herself whose own story embodies grace and grit, Karen’s work is recognized by thought-leaders as a much needed medicine for family members impacted by addiction and mental health challenges.
Karen’s adult son is her most powerful teacher, and she has recently returned home to NYC, where her roots run deep. In long-term recovery from intergenerational trauma and addiction, she believes in deep connections like the kind formed around the table when stories are told. She believes healing is better done slowly much like how food is better when prepared in a slow cooker instead of a microwave. As someone who spent a winter of total solitude in Montana, she knows there is beauty found in simple, life-affirming rhythms and integrates the power of ritual into her work.
She is author of The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others and the host of the podcast, Saving You a Seat.
For Karen, HOME is a sacred calling.
His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. Einsteinium, one of the synthetic elements in the periodic table, was named in his honor.
Kyle Megrue
Co-Founder
Chief Executive Officer
Kyle is the co-founder and CEO of Home. He is also a seasoned CFO and a mystic, a keen analytical thinker and systems linker, a soulful healer, and a trusted presence to many. Confidently occupying both the business and relational worlds, he finds profound meaning in creating rich relationships, growing businesses in generative ways, and serving the life force that enlivens all things.
As a strategic professional and attuned leader, Kyle has over a decade of experience innovating, building, and propelling novel concepts into impactful organizations. An experienced VC-backed operator, Kyle started, scaled, and exited a variety of ventures after beginning his career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Kyle inspires collaboration, empathy, and curiosity while empowering colleagues to deliver on key success metrics. Kyle believes that business, a mirror for personal and spiritual growth, offers profound opportunity for individual and collective awakening. As such, he embraces leadership to elevate those around him, balancing operational excellence with human flourishing. His consulting and entrepreneurial experience spans diverse sectors such as non-profits, ecommerce, media, AI, health & wellness.
Kyle is an artful facilitator, coach, and guide rooted in integrative practices that foster choicefulness, self-inquiry, and deep compassion. He is trained in the REAL Life Facilitator school, which teaches how to leverage the self as an instrument for harnessing group energy, navigating conflict skillfully, and creatively releasing group shadow. Designed to meet complex relational dynamics with curiosity, awareness, and heart, REAL Life is a powerful approach to individual transformation and collective liberation. Additionally, after years of devoted study, he has been accepted into a 3-year initiatory rite of mystical arts, indigenous wisdom, ceremonial healing, and plant medicine through the AWE foundation. A life-long student, Kyle is also versed in the conscious relating practices of Circling and Authentic Relating. Kyle further integrates embodiment and contemplative approaches (e.g. Qi Gong, 5 Rhythms, Vedic, and Open Awareness meditation). He has studied at the Esalen Institute and the Strozzi Institute.
Kyle’s own journey has many currents that inform his story-telling and healing approach. He knows firsthand what it is like to be in the grip of addiction fueled by challenging and painful family dynamics. He also knows how fundamental the family’s healing is to sustainable, individual recovery and accordingly, HOME is a deeply personal calling for Kyle. As a poet, dancer, and lover of all things life-affirming, he resonates deeply with HOME’s mission to support families on the path to intergenerational health.
When not studying, leading, or facilitating, Kyle can be found enjoying the very activities that take him deeper into wonder and mystery: surfing, fly-fishing, hiking, skiing. Whether he is in his beloved Montana, the backcountry of California, a ceremonial circle in Guatemala, or on the streets of New York City, he is most alive when connecting deeply with the very things and people that fuel his own soul-work and playful, en-joy-ment of life. Kyle is known for his adventurous spirit and his ability to show up comfortably in his own skin, a clear indication of the life-long healing journey to which he is committed.
For Kyle, all roads lead HOME.
His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. Einsteinium, one of the synthetic elements in the periodic table, was named in his honor.