Spirituality & Therapy
Therapy that works with your spiritual life, not around it.
Mental health care is increasingly recognizing what most people already know: that we are spiritual at our core. As a holistic therapist, I make room for that part of you if it's something you want to discuss. This holds true whatever your tradition, and just as true if your sense of the sacred has never fit neatly inside one.
My experience is that this part of the work matters, often more than people expect, especially when life cracks open, in grief, illness, fear, or any of the times that test what we believe. For many people, it's also where the deepest healing happens.
It's important to remember that I am not a spiritual leader, I'm a trained mental health professional. I'm not here to talk you into or out of any belief, only to help you carry your convictions, practice, or existential frameworks with more freedom and less fear, with your wellbeing coming first.
Example Areas of Focus
If you're searching or questioning
Deconstructing the faith you were raised in and finding the path that's actually yours.
Sitting with doubt and the questions that don't have tidy answers: about God, religion, or meaning itself.
Existential questions: mortality, purpose, and what it's all for.
If you want faith and wellbeing to work together
Drawing on your faith as a source of strength, meaning, and resilience, not only something to question.
Aligning your choices, relationships, and daily life with what you actually believe.
Untangling the psychological from the spiritual, when faith and mental health have gotten conflated.
If faith has been a source of pain
Recovering from harm in religious or spiritual spaces: controlling leaders or communities; guilt, shame, isolation, or coercion; doctrine used as a weapon; and the long work of learning to trust again afterward, in yourself and in whatever you hold sacred.
Facing judgment, misunderstanding, or social pressure because of what you believe, whether from family, friends, or the culture around you.
And for those who carry others
Support for religious workers: pastors, rabbis, imams, lay counselors, missionaries, and others who hold everyone else and rarely get held themselves.
Additionally, because Christianity is a tradition I know from the inside (having spent years in Christian lay counseling before I trained as a therapist), I am comfortable integrating Scripture or prayer into our work for those who explicitly ask for it. Some people find it grounding to open or close a session in prayer, or to sit with a passage that's stirring something in them.
If my approach aligns with what you're looking for, reach out for a free 15-minute consultation.