spiritual counseling

“Our true journey in life is interior.”

-Thomas Merton

When Life Asks Questions the Mind Alone Cannot Answer

There are seasons when the frameworks that once held you simply stop working. For instance, you may be questioning beliefs you carried for decades without examining them. You may be recovering from spiritual injury. Or, you may deep inside what the mystics call a "dark night of the soul," and what you need is not advice but someone who can sit with you in it without pathologizing, judging, or running away.

Illness, grief, trauma, transitions, psychedelic experiences, meditation intensives, and spontaneous awakenings all have the ability to crack open the familiar story of who you once were. That process of cracking is disorienting. It can also be an initiation if it's met with care, steadiness, and a willingness to engage the full weight of what's being asked.

Spiritual counseling is for people who want to meet what's emerging without bypassing the difficult human work it requires.

What Is Spiritual Counseling?

Spiritual counseling, as I practice it, is not religious instruction and it is not pastoral care.

When I use the word "spirituality," I am referring to the human search for meaning, purpose, connection, and coherence — how we orient ourselves toward suffering, mystery, love, death, vocation, and belonging, and the ways we give meaning to experiences that deeply move us on a soul level.

People come to this work from every background: atheist, agnostic, interfaith, mystical, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, pagan, spiritual-but-not-religious, or quietly curious. No belief system is imposed.

The work blends Depth psychotherapy, psychoeducation, and contemplative practice. In practical terms, this means helping you make sense of spiritually charged experiences, steadying the nervous system during upheaval, integrating insight into the texture of daily life, and getting clearer about your values, your vocation, and what you're being called toward.

Who This Work Is For

This work may be a fit if you are navigating a spiritual or existential crisis, integrating a mystical or near-death experience, recovering from religious trauma, or questioning inherited beliefs. It may also speak to you if you are experiencing kundalini or energetic shifts that don't fit neatly into clinical categories, facing mortality in a new way, sensing something reorganizing inside you that resists easy language, or if you are simply seeking something from your inner life that goes beyond symptom reduction.

My Background & Orientation

I have been studying and practicing Buddhism since 2004, with training across Theravada, Zen, and Dzogchen traditions. I am also a certified Reiki Master-Teacher since 201, and a licensed Depth Psychotherapist with a Jungian orientation, trained in integrative medicine mental health, neuroplasticity-based brain retraining, Positive Psychology, and contemplative science since 2014.

I hold a deep fascination with near-death experiences and what they reveal about consciousness, mortality, and meaning. My own path has been shaped by what I sometimes describe as "near-life experiences" — periods of illness, spiritual intensity, and psychological descent that radically reorganized how I understood existence, purpose, and resilience.

What those experiences taught me, more than anything, was how to sit calmly in spaces where certainty collapses and identity loosens. In this “Place” new symbolic worlds are emergr and the old language no longer holds.

This is the territory I know well, and it is the territory I invite others into with care.

I work with skeptics, seekers, mystics, scientists, clergy, creatives, healthcare workers, and those who are simply asking honest questions about what it means to be alive. Everyone is welcome!

Spiritual Crisis, Awakening & Transformation

Spiritual openings are not always blissful. They can arrive as panic, grief, disorientation, insomnia, depersonalization, or an existential dread that won't resolve. These are moments when the psyche is reorganizing faster than the ego can track, and without proper support, the experience can feel more like dissolution and destabilization than growth.

While I do not pathologize these experiences, however I do not romanticize them. What I can offer is a slowing down —which looks like a steadying of the nervous system, an exploration of what is emerging symbolically, and the sustained support needed for integration. This is the long and often unglamorous work of allowing what has ruptured to become something you can actually live from.

Interested in Exploring This Work?

If spiritual counseling feels aligned with where you are, I invite you to begin with my:

Exploring Fit — Initial Inquiry Form

Estimated time to complete: 10–15 minutes

This brief onboarding step helps determine whether my approach and current capacity match what you are seeking before we schedule a first conversation.