An ancient, unhurried practice of noticing.

Spiritual direction is one of the oldest and quietest practices in the Christian tradition. For as long as there have been seekers, there have been companions — people trained to listen well, ask gentle questions, and help others notice the movement of God in the particular grain of their own life.

What happens in a session

A typical session lasts about sixty minutes. We often begin with a short silence — even thirty seconds is enough — and a brief prayer asking for the Spirit's company. Then we move into conversation, wherever you'd like to begin: a moment that has stayed with you, a question you can't quite put down, a tug toward something new, a weariness you haven't been able to name.

My role is to listen, mostly. Occasionally I'll reflect back what I'm hearing or ask a question that helps you stay with something longer than you might on your own. We're not trying to fix anything or arrive somewhere; we're simply paying attention together, and trusting that attention itself is a faithful act.

The director is not the director; God is. The director is a companion on the way, helping the directee notice what God is already doing.— a saying among spiritual directors

What spiritual direction is not

It can help to name a few things spiritual direction isn't. It isn't:

• Counseling or therapy. Therapy attends to the wounds and patterns of your inner life with clinical training and tools. Spiritual direction attends to your life with God. Both are good and important; they are not the same. Many directees benefit from doing both with different people.
• Coaching. Coaching usually moves toward goals, performance, and measurable outcomes. Spiritual direction tends to move more slowly, and rarely toward outcomes a coach would recognize.
• Pastoral counseling. Pastoral counseling often blends spiritual care with practical guidance through a specific issue. Spiritual direction is quieter and more open-ended; we may sit with the same question across several sessions without "solving" it.
• Advice-giving. A director may occasionally share a practice or scripture that seems to be rising in the conversation. But the work is yours, and the wisdom you need is mostly already inside you, waiting to be heard.

Who is it for?

Spiritual direction can serve almost anyone willing to sit honestly with their own life and the question of God. It is especially fitting in seasons of:

• Transition — a move, a job change, a new chapter, an empty nest.
• Discernment — vocation, a relationship, a faith shift, a calling to lean into or release.
• Drought or fullness — when prayer has gone quiet, or when life feels so full you can hardly take it in.
• Quiet growth — when nothing in particular is wrong, but you sense you'd like to walk forward with more attention.
• Recovery from a difficult faith experience — gently, slowly, on your own timing.

Tradition and approach

My own grounding is in evangelical Christian formation and the broader contemplative tradition — shaped by scripture, by the long practice of attentive prayer, and by my years overseas in cross-cultural ministry, where I came to love the patient, attentive work of walking with people in their own particular contexts. I completed a two-year certification in spiritual direction through Sustainable Faith.

In practice, I draw on quiet practices like lectio divina (prayerful reading of scripture), the daily examen (noticing where God has been at work), and silence. None of these are required of you; they are simply some of the tools I have in the room.

I welcome directees from across the breadth of Christian tradition. You do not need to share my exact theology to be deeply companioned — only a willingness to bring your honest life into our conversation.