Spiritual Direction
A contemplative space for discernment, spiritual growth, and deeper meaning.
Spiritual direction is less about being directed than about learning to listen. Together, we slow down enough to notice what is stirring beneath the noise: the desires that draw you toward greater freedom, the patterns that leave you divided, and the quiet movements of grace already present in your life.
Listening for the life beneath the surface
Many people arrive at spiritual direction with questions that cannot be solved by better information. You may be rethinking inherited beliefs, recovering from a painful religious environment, longing for a more direct experience of the sacred, or simply sensing that the life you are living is no longer aligned with the person you are becoming.
Our work is not to force certainty. It is to create enough stillness, honesty, and companionship for a truer response to emerge.
What we might explore
- Discernment during seasons of transition or uncertainty
- Prayer, contemplation, silence, and embodied spiritual practice
- Faith deconstruction, spiritual injury, and the search for a livable faith
- The relationship between desire, identity, vocation, and the true self
- How family, culture, and religious communities shape your image of God
- Integrating spiritual life with emotion, relationship, body, and everyday experience
Rooted in tradition, open to your experience
My formation is rooted in Christian contemplative and Ignatian traditions, including the practice of attending carefully to desire, freedom, consolation, and desolation. I welcome people across spiritual and religious traditions, as well as atheists, agnostics, seekers, and those whose relationship to religion is changing, uncertain, or difficult to name.
When I use the word God, I mean God—as you understand him, her, or it. You may instead speak of the sacred, mystery, love, reality, ultimate concern, or the meaning that gives shape to your life. You do not need to arrive with settled beliefs. Curiosity and honesty are enough.
Direction is not about arranging an encounter with the sacred. It is about learning to recognize the encounter already unfolding.
Practical details
Spiritual direction usually meets monthly for 50 minutes. The fee is $125 per session. Missed sessions are charged at the full fee, although a session rescheduled within the same month may be moved without an additional charge when space is available.
Spiritual direction is not psychotherapy
Spiritual direction is a distinct service and is not mental-health treatment, clinical supervision, or a substitute for psychotherapy. It is not covered by HIPAA. I treat what you share with care and discretion, but spiritual-direction records and communications do not receive the same legal protections as psychotherapy records. When concerns require mental-health treatment, I will recommend working with an appropriately trained clinician. To protect clarity and boundaries, I do not serve as both therapist and spiritual director for the same person.
If you are wondering whether spiritual direction fits this season of your life, schedule a brief consultation and we can think about it together.