Approach to Spiritual Care
Spiritual companioning is also sometimes known as soul tending, spiritual mentoring, or spiritual direction. Traditionally, sessions are talk-based in this field. I find it is also often meaningful to weave this kind of work together with somatic awareness practices and energy medicine. Tracking and supporting the body in real time as we explore what is coming to the surface offers a profound sense of deep listening to the inner, wise self.
This approach honors your personal beliefs, practices, traditions, preferences, and experiences. I accompany those who are exploring concepts around all aspects of the human experience, offering support and witnessing as you explore your connection to what you consider sacred. This kind of support is open to anyone who is interested in leaning into the human journey, whether you consider yourself to be spiritual, religious, humanist, seeking, or something else. There is no right, wrong, judgment, or agenda in this work. We simply give space to notice, honor, and witness your experiences, supporting your own sense of deepening into your personal processes. Find more information here.
Spiritual companioning is not therapy. It is a non-dogmatic, non-religious, collaborative partnership in which we explore and discover your unique gifts, journey, and perspectives through soul-work-focused conversations, somatic explorations, energy medicine practices, or other personalized support. This work honors interspiritual values. We partner to explore the themes of what arises for you and support connection with however it is that you experience a sense of the sacred.
The intention of our time together focuses on bringing compassionate curiosity to the experiences of the body-mind-soul so that we may more fully listen and lean into the ways all parts of you may be asking to be seen as you walk your own journey through life. This work offers holistic, collaborative support and witnessing that helps us deepen into who we are at our core while giving awareness to somatic and transcendent experiences. It is an opportunity to have a trusted companion on your path with you as you explore how experiences show up as we journey through personal growth, healing work, hope, love, forgiveness, compassion, grief, pain, deep questions, fears, and all the things that life's journey asks us to hold.
Some of what I support others in exploring:
This approach honors your personal beliefs, practices, traditions, preferences, and experiences. I accompany those who are exploring concepts around all aspects of the human experience, offering support and witnessing as you explore your connection to what you consider sacred. This kind of support is open to anyone who is interested in leaning into the human journey, whether you consider yourself to be spiritual, religious, humanist, seeking, or something else. There is no right, wrong, judgment, or agenda in this work. We simply give space to notice, honor, and witness your experiences, supporting your own sense of deepening into your personal processes. Find more information here.
Spiritual companioning is not therapy. It is a non-dogmatic, non-religious, collaborative partnership in which we explore and discover your unique gifts, journey, and perspectives through soul-work-focused conversations, somatic explorations, energy medicine practices, or other personalized support. This work honors interspiritual values. We partner to explore the themes of what arises for you and support connection with however it is that you experience a sense of the sacred.
The intention of our time together focuses on bringing compassionate curiosity to the experiences of the body-mind-soul so that we may more fully listen and lean into the ways all parts of you may be asking to be seen as you walk your own journey through life. This work offers holistic, collaborative support and witnessing that helps us deepen into who we are at our core while giving awareness to somatic and transcendent experiences. It is an opportunity to have a trusted companion on your path with you as you explore how experiences show up as we journey through personal growth, healing work, hope, love, forgiveness, compassion, grief, pain, deep questions, fears, and all the things that life's journey asks us to hold.
Some of what I support others in exploring:
- Soul tending & spiritual companioning for people of all beliefs, including those who consider themselves spiritual but not religious, those who feel a deep connection to "something greater" but don't consider themselves spiritual, and all other paths and identities
- Exploring spirituality that honors the lived experience of neurodivergent individuals
- Spiritual healing practices
- Theosophical ideas, metaphysics, and esoteric practices
- Near death experiences, psychedelic experiences, and other mystical experiences
- Experiences with intuition, voices, visions, or other unique perceptions
- Remote energy healing practices
- Supporting grief work
- Creating sacred space, ritual guidance, and retreat facilitation
- Personal spiritual development practices
- Ancestral healing practices
- Death doula work and conscious dying support
“When we look at the level of the intellect, we will always find what separates and divides us. But when we look at the level of the heart, we will always find what joins us and makes us the same.”
~ HazratInayat Khan, The Unity of Religious Ideals
~ HazratInayat Khan, The Unity of Religious Ideals
“There is a desperate need for spirituality in our time... We require a spirituality that promotes the unity of the human family, not one that further divides us or maintains old antagonisms. At the same time, this interspiritual approach must not submerge our differences... The truth itself is big enough to include our diversity of views. They are all based on authentic inner experience, and so all are valid.”
~ Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart
~ Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart
Arriving Here
After many years of working with people on body-mind-soul themes, offering somatic therapies, trauma recovery coaching, acupuncture, bodywork, nutrition education, herbal medicine, yoga instruction, and other healing practices, I kept finding that the most meaningful work was being done through deep listening and being in the mystery of things versus trying to fix or change something. I was being consistently nudged to move away from clinical practices and away from outcome-based ways of doing things. My heart was asking me to let go of the rigid, goal-oriented ways our culture tends to expect this kind of work to be offered in order to make room for how the flow of life actually wants to show up and dance with us in present-moment timing.
What revealed itself is the deep, personal calling to simply be with others rooted, present, and curious as a witness to the journey as folks navigate their own paths. After decades of personal and professional experience with integrative healing modalities, I began to sense an expansive, joyful "yes" within my own system the more I moved toward the vision that had been asking me to meet it - no more agendas, no focusing on "fixing," no experts, no assessments, no paperwork, no goals, no bowing to systems that seek to control - just showing up in our beautiful, imperfect wholeness and honoring the depth and the realness of the human experience. This aspect of my work is focused on embracing the concepts of slow medicine, community-building, receptivity, and the simple act of being fully present, human-to-human. It is about embodying the heart-felt calling to offer kindness and compassion while trusting the process of life's unfolding. It's moving courageously into a liminal space where we begin to more fully embrace and allow the process of our becoming to happen with a sacred witness present.
What revealed itself is the deep, personal calling to simply be with others rooted, present, and curious as a witness to the journey as folks navigate their own paths. After decades of personal and professional experience with integrative healing modalities, I began to sense an expansive, joyful "yes" within my own system the more I moved toward the vision that had been asking me to meet it - no more agendas, no focusing on "fixing," no experts, no assessments, no paperwork, no goals, no bowing to systems that seek to control - just showing up in our beautiful, imperfect wholeness and honoring the depth and the realness of the human experience. This aspect of my work is focused on embracing the concepts of slow medicine, community-building, receptivity, and the simple act of being fully present, human-to-human. It is about embodying the heart-felt calling to offer kindness and compassion while trusting the process of life's unfolding. It's moving courageously into a liminal space where we begin to more fully embrace and allow the process of our becoming to happen with a sacred witness present.
“We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are – creatures of boundless love, caring, compassion, and wisdom.”
~ Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart
~ Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart
