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What You Can Expect With Me

Spiritual direction isn't instruction — I'm not here to teach you doctrine or tell you what to believe. It's closer to a companioned pause: space to notice what's actually happening in your life with God, and in your body, and to ask together what response it invites.

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I understand my role as offering a compassionate witness to your life. I pay attention to where and how I sense the Divine at work in what you share, and I reflect that back to you — not as answers, but as observations to sit with. I ask gentle questions designed to help what's beneath the surface come into view: in your soul, in your body, in the patterns you might not have named yet. And at times, I'll invite us into prayer, imagination, or simple attention to the body as ways of encountering the Divine that go beneath (and beyond) our ordinary thinking.

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Spiritual direction has never been a solo practice. Directors have long understood the Holy Spirit as the real director of these conversations — my job is to help create the conditions for you to hear that voice more clearly, not to be the authority on what you should hear.

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Trauma-Informed, Embodied, Decolonized

As a trauma-informed director, I follow your pace rather than bringing my agenda or plan into the time. Your body's signals — tension, ease, resistance, relief — will be honored.  

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As a decolonizing practitioner, I hold an active awareness of how spiritual authority has historically been used to control rather than liberate, particularly for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people, and for anyone whose bodies or identities have been treated as suspect by religious institutions. 

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Because I believe God meets us as embodied people, not just as minds or souls in the abstract, sessions may include silence, guided prayer, imaginative prayer, movement, or attention to what's happening physically as you speak — alongside conversation. You're welcome to shape how we use the time.

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One-on-One Spiritual Direction

In the midst of constant activity and noise, spiritual direction can provide space to tend to one’s soul, to enter into the quiet and discover what is there, to breathe and rest in God, to discern how God may be leading, and to explore our purpose in this world.

 

A typical spiritual direction session may include moments of silence, meditative reading, physical movement, guided prayer, parts work, and/or conversation. I am willing to enter into the time however the directee chooses as well as focus on any questions or issues for discernment they bring. My role is to help you explore, in all these things, how God is present with you, and what your present relationship with God is.

 

Group Spiritual Direction

Spiritual direction also happens as we enter the mystery of the Divine with a group of companions who are committed to growing in a deepened awareness of and attachment to God for discernment of the authentic true self. My role as the spiritual director is to facilitate these groups to be a place of mutual and shared growth.

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Depending on the availability of participants, the groups may meet monthly or twice-monthly. 

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Faith Backgrounds

I welcome people from a range of faith backgrounds and no faith background at all. My own grounding is Christian, and I hold that tradition with a critical, liberative eye rather than an uncritical one — so if you've been hurt by church or by God-language, that's not a disqualifier for working with me. I am willing to meet you on the terrain of doubt and deconstruction.