Mentoring
A typical spiritual counseling or mentoring session lasts an hour and is conducted at my home office in North Portland. In each session, the agenda is yours: You bring whatever you wish to discuss or process. I will listen, ask questions, or offer insights, stories, metaphors, or challenges—always within a framework of acceptance, support, and compassion—to move you deeper into your own experience. In some traditions, this approach is called “spiritual direction,” or “soul-friending” (“anam cara”). Any subject is "grist for the mill": career, dating, sexuality, spiritual process, communication, creativity.

Mentoring typically involves a standing monthly appointment. The ongoing nature of mentoring supports a very deep, enriching life, which some people refer to as spiritual.

Different from coaching, which is goal-driven, mentoring is soul-driven.

Spiritual mentors and spiritual counselors are different from traditional psychotherapists insofar as we take a specifically spiritual focus. In addition, much psychotherapy is focused on addressing a particular problem or pathology, whereas we embrace life issues as notable opportunities for us to work with the Divine—however we regard that force—toward healing and wholeness. (Psychotherapy is appropriate for many people, and I will refer to psychotherapists when appropriate.)

Spiritual counseling
Spiritual counseling is similar to mentoring, but without the monthly commitment and available over telephone or Skype. Individual “one-off” sessions are welcome, as well as varying frequencies over a limited scope of time. Perfect for when you're dealing with something and just want to process it with someone.

Healing work
Drawing from a broad palette of skills and education, including mentoring, ritual, energy work, bodywork, coaching methods, shamanic techniques, and intuition, I offer “free-form” healing work to move through blockages that are beyond the reach of simple discourse. No two sessions are alike, and it’s impossible to predict at the outset what the session will look like. I will always check in with you for permission regarding what kind of work I would like to do. Sessions last roughly two hours.

In-home consultation
Where and how we live has a major impact on our spiritual well-being. For local clients, I offer the option of a two-hour consultation done in the client's home, so I can get a feel for the energy you have in your living space and how it may manifest in other areas of your life. This consultation includes an hour or more of sharing observations and spiritual counseling or mentoring. 

Rites
As an ordained minister, I am able to act as celebrant for rites of passages, such as christenings, commitment ceremonies, weddings, blessings, and funerals. We will work together to create the proper setting and a powerful and appropriate ceremony to mark the occasion.