A normal session begins by bringing ourselves from our busy lives to be present in the current space and moment. Depending on your preferences, we may pause in silence, pray and connect with your sense of the sacred, or share a poem or art piece to contemplate. When you are ready, we begin with whatever question, experience, or life situation you would like to talk about. For those who desire to integrate their creative and spiritual lives, you might bring a work in progress or recently finished piece as a way to explore the spiritual undercurrents in your life and creative process. 

My role is to listen deeply, ask evocative questions to help you reflect, and companion you in silence and contemplative practices. I often invite directees to engage their imagination, notice the body and its wisdom, compassionately tend to emerging feelings, or even use arts as a way to express and surface interior movements. These are all means of gently noticing movements in your spiritual life and deepening your experience of compassionate interconnection with yourself, others, the cosmos, and the Divine / Source / Reality. 

Nope! While I am most familiar with the Christian tradition and some Buddhist streams, you might have any or no specific religious background.

And whatever you believe, and whatever spiritual language you find most comfortable, that’s where we’ll start! The focus isn’t on getting the right answers, staying at the cognitive level. Instead, we pay attention to the inner movements of your life in dialogue with your sense of invitation for how to show up in the world.

Spiritual direction and therapy differ both in terms of methods and focus, even though the same life circumstances could be discussed in both settings. Therapy is focused on addressing presenting mental health, behavioral, and relational issues, getting to the root causes and healing past wounds and trauma. In contrast, spiritual direction is about deepening your compassionate connection with yourself and the Divine / Sacred / Reality, however you name it. It is about noticing what is emerging in the interior movements of your spiritual journey through all of life’s circumstances.

Nope! There may be follow-up steps that you discern during a session, but I will never assign something that you have to do before we meet again.

Occasionally I may suggest a practice to try or a helpful resource if it directly ties to what you are bringing to discuss in the session, but it is always entirely up to you whether to do anything with it!

A normal session begins by bringing ourselves from our busy lives to be present in the current space and moment. Depending on your preferences, we may pause in silence, pray and connect with your sense of the sacred, or share a poem or art piece to contemplate. When you are ready, we begin with whatever question, experience, or life situation you would like to talk about. For those who desire to integrate their creative and spiritual lives, you might bring a work in progress or recently finished piece as a way to explore the spiritual undercurrents in your life and creative process. 

My role is to listen deeply, ask evocative questions to help you reflect, and companion you in silence and contemplative practices. I often invite directees to engage their imagination, notice the body and its wisdom, compassionately tend to emerging feelings, or even use arts as a way to express and surface interior movements. These are all means of gently noticing movements in your spiritual life and deepening your experience of compassionate interconnection with yourself, others, the cosmos, and the Divine / Source / Reality. 

Spiritual direction and therapy differ both in terms of methods and focus, even though the same life circumstances could be discussed in both settings. Therapy is focused on addressing presenting mental health, behavioral, and relational issues, getting to the root causes and healing past wounds and trauma. In contrast, spiritual direction is about deepening your compassionate connection with yourself and the Divine / Sacred / Reality, however you name it. It is about noticing what is emerging in the interior movements of your spiritual journey through all of life’s circumstances.

Nope! While I am most familiar with the Christian tradition and some Buddhist streams, you might have any or no specific religious background.

And whatever you believe, and whatever spiritual language you find most comfortable, that’s where we’ll start! The focus isn’t on getting the right answers, staying at the cognitive level. Instead, we pay attention to the inner movements of your life in dialogue with your sense of invitation for how to show up in the world.

Nope! There may be follow-up steps that you discern during a session, but I will never assign something that you have to do before we meet again.

Occasionally I may suggest a practice to try or a helpful resource if it directly ties to what you are bringing to discuss in the session, but it is always entirely up to you whether to do anything with it!