Spiritual Direction
Contemplative companionship for questions of meaning, faith, doubt, and spiritual transition.
Spiritual direction offers a quiet space to attend to your inner life, your questions of meaning, and your relationship to what you hold sacred.
You may be leaving a religious tradition, grieving spiritual harm, living with doubt, or sensing that an old framework no longer holds. You may feel spiritually homeless, drawn to silence, unsure what you believe, or still longing for something you cannot easily name.
You do not need to have it figured out to begin.
What spiritual direction is
Spiritual direction is a form of contemplative companionship.
It is not therapy, religious instruction, advice-giving, or a program for arriving at the right beliefs. It is a shared practice of slowing down, listening carefully, and noticing what is already moving in your life.
Some people use the language of God, Spirit, Mystery, nature, silence, or the sacred. Others are not sure what language fits anymore.
All of that is welcome.
Spiritual direction creates room for grief, longing, doubt, anger, tenderness, silence, and unexpected aliveness without pressure or coercion.
Who I work with
I especially welcome people who are:
- healing from rigid, fear-based, or high-control religion
- navigating faith deconstruction or spiritual transition
- spiritually hungry but unsure where they belong
- recovering from religious shame or spiritual abuse
- experiencing spiritual emergence or spiritual crisis
- drawn to contemplative, interspiritual, or depth-oriented practice
- therapists, ministers, caregivers, or helpers who need space for their own inner life
Some people come with a clear spiritual identity. Others come with fragments, questions, grief, or no name at all for what they are seeking.
That is enough.
My approach
I was formed within Christianity, especially its contemplative streams, but my own path has also been shaped by Buddhist meditation, Sufi wisdom, Jungian psychology, yogic and Hindu perspectives, and interspiritual teachers who make room for paradox.
I do not ask you to adopt my language or beliefs.
My role is to listen with you: to your experience, your questions, your body, your dreams, your grief, your longing, and the quiet places where something in you may still feel alive.
I try not to hurry the process. I do not assume I know what the sacred means in another person's life.
The work is less about certainty than attention.
What sessions look like
Sessions are held by Zoom and are available worldwide.
Most people meet monthly for 50 to 60 minutes, though the rhythm can vary. There is no curriculum or fixed agenda. You bring whatever feels alive: a question, a loss, a dream, a spiritual experience, a silence, a stuck place, or a sense that something is changing.
We listen together.
Beginning
If this feels like the kind of companionship you are seeking, you are welcome to reach out. We can begin with a brief conversation to see whether spiritual direction together feels like a good fit.
A fuller reflection on this work can be found in “Trembling Toward Wholeness.”