Spiritual Direction
“When someone deeply listens to you it’s like holding out a dented cup you’ve had since childhood and watching it fill up with cold, fresh water.
When it balances on top of the brim, you are understood. When it overflows and touches your skin, you are loved.
When someone listens to you, your bare feet are on the earth and a beloved land that seemed distant is now at home within you.” - John Fox
What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual direction has been practiced since the foundation of Christianity and is an invitation to experience God in the very heart of your everyday life—within your decisions, transitions, emotions, and even your questions. It's a space for deep listening, reflection, and guidance as you seek greater clarity and connection with God.
Whether you’re in a season of spiritual growth, transition, or questioning, spiritual direction helps you listen more closely to your soul’s desires and to God’s presence in your everyday experiences.
At its core, spiritual direction is about your ongoing connection with God, not just in big, life-changing moments, but in the quiet, everyday ones. Through prayer and reflection, you begin to notice how God is guiding you toward deeper faith and a life of purpose and service.
While I offer support and companionship as a spiritual director, God is the true guide in this journey. My role isn’t to give you answers or advice, but to help you discern and respond to God’s unique invitation for a more intimate and fulfilling relationship with Him.
Why Seek Spiritual Direction?
In a world that often moves too fast, spiritual direction offers a chance to pause and reflect. You might come to spiritual direction if you:
Desire a deeper relationship with God
Are navigating a significant life transition
Feel called to explore your purpose and identity
Long for spiritual renewal
Seek discernment or direction in decision-making
Crave a safe space to express your doubts, struggles, or joys
What to Expect
Our sessions are a time for you to talk about your spiritual journey in a confidential and non-judgmental space. Together, we’ll listen for the voice of the Spirit, using practices like imaginative prayer, silence, and reflective conversation to guide our time. The focus is always on your relationship with God and helping you notice God’s presence in all areas of your life.
A typical rhythm of meeting together is once per month, for one hour.
Start Your Journey
Every journey begins with a single step.
I offer an initial conversation to explore what spiritual direction might look like for you, followed by a free 30-minute session for new clients.
Let’s take this journey together!
Spiritual Direction FAQ’s
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After your free 30-minute discovery session, my standard rate for an hour of Spiritual Direction $65, however, I refuse to let money get in the way of feeding your soul. If cost is prohibitive, please let me know.
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Spiritual Direction, as the name implies, is primarily about our spiritual lives, our relationship with God, and the movement of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Spiritual Directors help directees experience God amid the circumstances, decisions, transitions, and emotions of life. A Spiritual Director’s role is to hold space, journey with, listen, ask questions, pray, and guide you through soul-nourishing spiritual practices. This “sacred space” helps directees pay attention to the way that God is communicating with them and helps them become more fully who they have been created to be. Spiritual Directors typically have completed an advanced certificate program and gone through a period of oversight with an Instructor.
Counseling helps us to explore, uncover, process, and resolve problems in our lives and relationships. Psychotherapy goes even deeper and uses a myriad of tools to help individuals process trauma and overcome persistent and debilitating obstacles. Counselors and Therapists typically have years of advanced Masters-level training and go through an extensive state licensing process.
Coaching is all about refining skills and strategies. Life coaches generally talk about the present and the future, not the past, and are trained to help you define what your current reality is, dream what the future could look like, and help you get there. This could include health goals, making healthy decisions relationally, career goals or simply doing what you want to do but have a hard time doing. In short, a life coach helps you through your life as a coach and/or cheerleader ultimately helping you in your journey of becoming. Coaches typically have completed some kind of higher-level training though there are many programs varying in intensity, specificity, and qualification.
Discipleship is a core part of developing maturity in one’s Christian life. Discipleship can take many different forms but often includes the presence of a mentor who has more life experience and the relationship usually features some level of transparency, accountability, curiosity, and trust.
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If you are struggling with emotional pain and negative patterns of behavior in your life, dealing with depression or mood disorders, anxiety, addictions, or other diagnosable conditions, psychotherapy is your best option.
Do you need guidance and support sorting out your life and your relationships? Spiritual Direction or counseling would be the way to go.
Are you trying to grow in your relationship with God and discern the movement of the Holy Spirit in your life? Then spiritual direction is what you should pursue.
Keep in mind that each discipline is not mutually exclusive and you can participate in spiritual direction along with therapy and counseling.