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Thanks for making it here! I’m so excited about the possibility of working with you. Here are some nuts and bolts about what working together might look like. Most clients choose to meet once or twice a month for a 60 minute session. You can come to our meeting with topics in mind, ask me to prepare some topics for discussion, or we can take “the long way round” and see what happens – it’s all good. We’ll talk about all of this during our initial consultation; you can start here by exploring some of my most popular meeting and package options. I look forward to connecting with you!
I offer free 30-minute initial consultations. In the initial consultation, we meet each other in an informal environment to chat and ensure we’re on the same page regarding expectations for our time together. This is a good time to discuss basics like how often we will meet and the price of a session. After the initial consultation, I will send you a confidentiality agreement and a questionnaire that is a great jumping off point for future sessions.
I am a UU Wellspring Sources facilitator and have led the 10 month Sources program for several years. I love working with Wellspringers and have seen participants’ lives be transformed by the curriculum. Engaging with a spiritual director who is extremely familiar with the Wellspring Sources curriculum can be helpful in engaging even more deeply with the topics for each session. If you are interested in working with me during Wellspring Sources, I offer a 10 month package where you get three sessions free.
Spiritual direction, like being an adult, is both liberating and daunting because no one will tell you what to do but you. In spiritual care, you frequently have to work to uncover the small, still voice inside of you that was born knowing what to do. Spiritual guidance is unique because it is a space where you get to listen to your inner voice, even if you don’t end up following it. You give yourself the gift of taking time to remember what you already know. There are no “shoulds” in spiritual direction.
I received my certificate from the Haden Institute, a two year program in the Jungian mystical tradition. It is important that spiritual directors have completed a certificate program or some other kind of extensive training that they can articulate to you, primarily so they can stay in their lane and let the focus be on you, the client. I meet monthly or more with a mentor and peer support group who provide supervision of my practice. It is important that you feel safe in spiritual care.
Spiritual direction is not psychotherapy or counseling, but it can be complementary to those treatments. Your spiritual director should not offer mental health advice or treatment unless they are also a licensed mental health professional. If I do not think spiritual guidance is appropriate for your needs, I will refer you to another qualified professional.
I have been a member of my local Unitarian Universalist church for nearly 15 years, and have been a lay leader of many small group programs there, including UU Wellspring for the last several years. I am excited to work with you no matter what your religious or faith identity is, and consider myself an interfaith spiritual director. My background includes work as an attorney for kids with disabilities at The Legal Center (now Disability Law Colorado), work as a yoga teacher, and work as an attorney running a solo estate planning business. I am engaged in volunteering for my community, including offering pro bono mediation services to the Jefferson County court system and support and advocacy for Colorado’s public school system. I use she/her pronouns.
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You may not have heard of spiritual direction because there is not a lot of money in it, and we tend to hear about things that make people money. Care for the soul can be a form of resistance. Rev. Theresa Ines Soto said moments of self care are resistance in that they make you available to the greater purpose of your life. The greater purpose of your life is probably not buying stuff (even though buying stuff can be fun and is okay). There can be a lasting and indescribable peace that flows from spiritual centering, as well as the possibility of enacting real and meaningful widespread change. Capitalist interests might be a bit threatened by that kind of living.
You do not have to believe in God, although this is typically a rich topic to explore. In spiritual care you may encounter a higher power of your own understanding. There are many names that we can apply to this understanding, such as Love, Mystery, the Universe, Presence, and Higher Self. I am not invested in encouraging any one perspective but in the process of you discovering what feels true to you. Spirituality isn’t out there to be figured out but in here to be felt.
How often we meet is up to you, but clients typically meet with their spiritual directors once or twice a month for 60 minutes a session. In the meantime, you will be encouraged to engage in a spiritual practice, which might look like journaling, an embodiment practice, or contemplative prayer. This is something we can explore in our sessions.
My clients typically pay $50-$150/hour. I value making spiritual care accessible to a wide range of clients. If cost is an issue let’s schedule a free initial consultation to chat about options.
I work with people from all walks of life. Something my clients frequently have in common is they are motivated by the possibility of growth. This could be because they’ve had a recent hardship, are feeling stuck or dissatisfied, or because they identify as a highly sensitive person, a seeker, or a meaning-maker. It is often said that prayer doesn’t change things, it changes people and people change things. I think the same is true about spiritual direction. In spiritual direction we find the tools, practices, and space to engage more fully with our precious lives. We get to, as Rev. Amy Carol Webb says, engage in yearning for the mystery our hearts have always known.
Like life, spiritual guidance is an unfolding nonlinear process. The idea of non linear progress can feel like waiting, which we are often not accustomed to enjoying. Sue Monk Kidd says contemplative waiting is consenting to be where we really are, a process that is both passive and passionate. The answer to “How much time does this take?” is “I don’t know,” but the process is the goal and the future is programmed in the present, so we start here.
You can talk about pretty much anything in a spiritual direction session because most of life can be viewed through a spiritual lens. I will refer clients to other professionals when appropriate.
Howard Thurman said that God speaks loudest in silence. You may find that a stretch of silence allows you to hear your inner voice more clearly. Spiritual care is a time of curiosity where we can do low-stakes experiments with practices that aren’t typically encouraged in our everyday lives, like sitting in silence. That said, I have clients who ask me to come to each session with a reading and I am happy to do that. God, love, and spiritual direction are supposed to feel good. A huge part of my job is to hold space and allow whatever happens to happen. This helps you to feel safe and not worry about feeling awkward, performing, or filling the silence. You can work your way out from your center.
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I honor and work with people who are Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC); who are transgender, nonbinary and queer; who have a disability; and all who experience marginalization and oppression.