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What Healing Looks Like
Counseling and Spiritual Direction
Trauma-Informed Counseling or Integrative Care
Change Is Possible
Integrative Counseling: Where Spiritual Meets Practical Integrative counseling emerged from a genuine need: the recognition that healing rarely fits into just one box. Many people want real therapeutic tools: boundary work, nervous system regulation, practical skills for daily life. And they also want to stay connected to their spiritual lives, their sense of the sacred, and a deeper sense of purpose. Integrative counseling holds both. In these sessions I draw from my full training in counseling with a trauma-informed approach and spiritual direction. I meet each person exactly where they are. No single method fits every person, so I don't work from a script. Instead, I weave together what's most helpful for you, in this season of your life. What Integrative Counseling Includes In our sessions together, you can expect evidence-based therapeutic techniques: practical, transferable skills you can use immediately in your relationships, your work, and your inner life. Sessions are also trauma-informed, understanding that the trauma you've lived through directly affects your adult life today. We work with your nervous system rather than against it. Alongside that, I bring spiritual direction practices: deep listening, open-ended exploration, and space for whatever contemplative practices resonate with you This is not conventional therapy with a spiritual veneer. It is a genuinely integrated approach where evidence-based practice and sacred inquiry inform each other. Who This Is For Integrative counseling is a good fit if you want therapeutic tools but don't want to leave your spiritual life at the door. Or if you're navigating faith transitions, religious trauma, or questions about belief. It's also well-suited for highly sensitive people looking for a gentler, more holistic approach, or anyone who has tried traditional therapy and felt something essential was missing. Some clients use integrative counseling for a single session to gain clarity on a specific question. Others commit to ongoing work over months or years. Both are welcome. Sessions are available in person at my Minneapolis office or online throughout the United States.
Spiritual Direction
Attuning Your Spirit
Feel Like Your truest self through self-reflection, discernment and spiritual insight
What Is Spiritual Direction? Parker Palmer once wrote: "The soul of a human is like that of a wild animal. An animal will hide in its cave until it feels there is no threat on the outside. Once that animal knows they are safe, they will make their way out of the cave, slowly." I know this to be true in my own life, and in the lives of the people I sit with. Feeling truly heard is rare. Feeling safe enough to be fully yourself is rarer still. This is why I became a spiritual director: because I believe you are worth listening to. A spiritual director is a trained companion who walks alongside you on your inner journey. I don't offer advice, fix problems, or tell you who you are or what to do. Instead, I create a spacious, confidential space where you can explore your relationship with the sacred. Or simply with yourself — and listen for what is already alive within you. As Thomas Merton wrote: "The purpose of spiritual direction is to dig beneath the surface of your life, to get behind the facade of conventional gestures and attitudes which you present to the world, and to bring out your inner spiritual freedom, your inmost truth." What Spiritual Direction Is and Isn't Spiritual direction is not therapy, coaching, or pastoral counseling, though it can complement all of these. It is a dedicated space to be listened to without judgment, to explore your deepest longings, and to practice discernment: the art of making important life decisions in alignment with your own values, beliefs, and inner wisdom. I am not affiliated with any single denomination or religious tradition. I work with people across the full spectrum — those rooted in a specific faith, those in the middle of a faith transition, those who identify as spiritual but not religious, and those who are simply curious about their inner life. What matters is not where you are theologically, but that you are genuinely seeking. What You Can Expect in Sessions Sessions are fluid and unhurried. There is no agenda to complete, no problem to solve, no sense of being fixed. Through deep listening, thoughtful questioning, and contemplative presence, I help the truths already within you become more clear. Clients often tell me that a session feels like going on a retreat. Or, as one person put it, like talking to the Barbara Walters of therapy. Individual spiritual direction sessions are typically held once a month, though twice a month is also an option for those who want more frequent companionship on the journey. Sessions are available in person at my Minneapolis office or online throughout the United States. Before committing, you're welcome to schedule a free exploratory session. It's a chance to ask questions, get a feel for how I work, and discern together whether we're a good fit. I can't wait to meet you.