Spiritual Counselor

What would it be like to listen more deeply to your yearnings, hurts and discoveries and in the process nurture your spirit? 

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Sometimes we are facing a pivotal moment, staring mute into the unknown or sensing the possibility of greater depth in our lives but don't don’t know where to turn.  Having a spiritual counselor, a grown-up companion who has been on the path a good while, can make an enormous difference! 

I've been on a spiritual path for half a century.  I have walked as a spiritual counselor alongside many, many good souls, troubled and untroubled, inspired and looking for inspiration.  I see my task as nourishing the life-long practice of ever increasing openness.

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Together we will listen as deeply as we can.  Lstening for guidance.  Listening for the movement of spirit in your life and decisions.  Listening for what will bring greater spaciousness.

 

I have spent a lifetime of studing psychological and spiritual growth and have been trained and board-certified as a hospital chaplain.  But I am not a therapist.  Spiritual counseling is not therapy.  I am a deeply religious or spiritual man, but I will never proselytize.  Nor will I try to fix your problems or answer your life issues. That is for you to do. 

 

Rather I will walk alongside you, offering my own life long struggles to connect with the Divine and the fully real.  I see my task as to walk with you, helping you perceive, question, lament, give thanks, wonder and hope. I try to ask insightful, open-ended questions that can help you tell the real, unvarnished truth and connect with your deepest self.  And I try to allow space for stillness and silence (contemplation). 

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However, I was also trained and certified as a meditation teacher.  If you choose I will happily teach you how to meditate or do contemplative prayer.

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"Come," as the Rg Veda puts it, "let us grow together. (10:12:40)