What is Spiritual Counseling?

Spiritual counseling is a way of exploring and navigating life’s challenges. It is a modality that is sensitive to our developmental (family/life) history while simultaneously widening the lens through which we see these experiences, including also our sense of connection to the grander ecology of life, our sense of purpose, and our deeply intuited understandings of our ultimate identity. Exploring our deepest-felt existential understandings can align us to our “north star” of being, and can help us experience a profound sense of meaningfulness and clarity as to how to navigate the path ahead. By taking time to explore, honor, and integrate the “deeper waters” of our sense of self — especially when we are at a crossroads or seeming “dead end” — a different relationship with life often reveals itself quite organically. Uncovering our innate wisdom places us in a mode of being that is authentic and whole in the fullest sense, and one that is difficult to put into words. And yet, for most of us, it takes intention and support to do the work of deep-diving into who we really are. Sometimes we intuit we’ve outgrown something, but we can’t quite see or relax into the wider landscape we are being invited into. Support can help.

There are many forms that spiritual counseling can take. I braid these in collaboration with you based on what is needed. Spiritual counseling can include:

  • Grief counseling and navigating difficult losses;

  • Developing or deepening one’s meditation practice as a way to heal, develop insight, and abide in what we are at the most fundamental levels;

  • Exploring feelings of meaninglessness or numbness;

  • Developing an understanding of our dreams and the ways the unconscious “pulls” on us;

  • Working with personal mythologies, mythopoetic identities, and symbolism to draw out a sense of purpose;

  • Integrating transrational and nondual experiences;

  • Working with internal conflicts and splits within ourselves that are manifesting outwardly;

  • Support in ritual creation to formalize passage through difficult thresholds;

  • Navigating social systems and collective suffering with newfound or reclaimed insights.

No matter how you decide to use spiritual counseling, it always involves compassionate inquiry. I often ask questions to help you discern what is true for you. We may also explore practices that can bring these insights into the body of experience. Your intuition is the guide, we are just making space to listen to it.