Therapy and spiritual direction can both be deeply valuable, and many people benefit from both at the same time.

Therapy focuses on understanding past wounds, psychological patterns, behaviors, and understand how they shape the present and how that can direct your future. Therapy helps you work toward emotional healing and psychological health and can be important, but it is not spiritual direction.

It’s also worth noting that spiritual direction is not coaching either. Coaching tends to focus on creating plans for the future, clarifying goals, removing obstacles, with a big focus on taking action. This can be good, but it’s not what we’re doing here.

Spiritual direction focuses on right now. What is actually happening in your inner spiritual life in this season, what the sacred might be saying within it, and how you may respond to what is coming up.

A spiritual director isn't a therapist, a coach, or a guru. A spiritual director is a listener and co-discerner as you follow the promptings on the Spirit in real time.

Artificial Intelligence, as we use it, is a large language model. While it can be helpful to put together information in a particular pattern based on your prompts, it lacks any real human experience outside of what’s been documented on the internet and certain connections it makes (sometimes with pretty big faults).

Further, AI cannot truly discern the presence of the Spirit of God in real time. Again, it is pulling together info from what has been.

Using AI can be helpful at times, sure. I’m not dismissing it entirely. However, for navigating the inner landscape, offerings like spiritual direction, therapy, counseling, and other modalities are important to journey with a human through that process.

Honestly, in many cases that’s great. It gives an opportunity for us to listen without having to navigate triggers that could be there.

There’s no agenda for conversion to any faith and no requirement to have a faith tradition.

Completely. In fact this space was built with you in mind.

If everything you once believed feels like it's crumbling, or if you're holding questions you're not sure anyone else can sit with — that is welcome here. All of it.

I don't have an agenda to move you toward any particular belief system or to reconstruct what's come apart. Deconstruction is not a problem to be solved. It's often the beginning of the most honest and alive spiritual journey a person can take. My role is simply to sit with you in it, listen, and help you pay attention to what might be trying to emerge beneath the rubble.

You don't need to have it figured out to show up. You just need to show up.

I am absolutely open to everyone, and I celebrate all people as sacred expressions of God. However, when it comes to affirmation, I believe that can only happen within oneself. No external person or institution has the power to validate or affirm who you are: only you do.

This takes time and awareness and is a lifelong process. My job here is to listen and co-discern. Not to try to change you but to help you rest deeper into who you are.

Usually I can get started pretty quickly. The calendly is the best way to see availability and book sessions.

If you can’t find a time that works for your on the Calendly, send an email and we can find a time that works.

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The cost per sessions is $125. There are cost-effective options for monthly rates if you would like to set up more than one session within a month.

Yes. Cost shouldn’t have to be a barrier to navigating your spiritual unfoldment. There are a limited amount of scholarships available. To apply, click this link to complete the application and I will be in touch shortly.

Light, genuine, and honestly can be pretty fun at times while maintaining a sense of depth and purpose. I’m here to help guide the process of your spiritual unfoldment, make intuitive suggestions, and help you uncover your inner divinity.

Contemplative spirituality is the practice of learning to listen to the voice beneath the one that needs to have all the answers.

Most of us live at the surface of ourselves — reactive, restless, always needing to be somewhere theologically or in our sense of identity. The contemplative path slows that down. It creates space to hear something quieter and more true underneath the noise.

The simplest way I know to say it: contemplative spirituality is learning to listen to God within your own life. Not a God out there handing down verdicts, but a presence already moving in your experience, your relationships, your longings, and your questions — if you learn to pay attention to it.

Spiritual direction is one of the oldest containers for this kind of listening.

Soul care is something our culture has largely forgotten, and it's meaningfully different from self care, though people often use the terms interchangeably.

Self care is good. Rest, recovery, and tending to your physical and emotional needs matter. But self care tends to begin and end with relaxation. It asks: what do I need to feel better right now?

Soul care asks a different question: what is seeking to come alive in me?

It operates from the conviction that God is seeking to express something through your particular life, and that tending to your inner world is how you begin to hear what that is. Soul care is integration. It doesn't just lead you toward rest, though rest may be part of it, it leads you toward meaning, purpose, and a life that feels genuinely inhabited rather than just maintained.

This is the work we do in spiritual direction. Not just a sense of relaxation or peace, but attentiveness to live into the fullness of life.

Absolutely.

This practice draws from the world's wisdom traditions: contemplative Christianity, Buddhism, Jungian psychology, and more. But it is not bound by the dogma that often comes with any single one of them.

If the word "God" works for you, let’s use it. If you prefer the Divine, the Sacred, Love, the Universe, or no word at all, that works too.

We're not here to defend a concept. We're here to follow the actual promptings of something larger than ourselves, whatever you call it.

This is a space for seekers. For those who sense there is something real to attend to in their interior life but who don't fit neatly into any tradition or institution. For those who have left a religious home but haven't left the spiritual life, even if it looks very different now.

The only thing we need in spiritual direction is a willingness to listen.