Spiritual Companioning sessions last from 50-60 minutes. During this time, we’ll engage in conversation and the practice of contemplative listening. You will learn to use intuition, emotion, embodiment, and intellect to help you encounter yourself in a more contemplative and holistic way.

Spiritual companionship is a safe space, and whatever you bring during our time is welcome and confidential.

Spiritual Companioning is for everyone. It is not faith or circumstance specific. It only requires a desire to pay attention to yourself and interact with what you find.

Spiritual Companioning and therapy/coaching have significant differences. Generally, an individual goes to therapy or coaching to solve a specific problem or with a specific goal in mind. The client acknowledges that her therapist or coach is the expert and follows that individual’s advice.

While a particular circumstance (a divorce, a death, or other important transition) or trauma might cause a person to seek out a Spiritual Companion as she would a therapist, a companion accompanies rather than instructs.

As a companion, I journey with you, not only through what may have been your original reason for beginning the Companioning relationship, but through any other aspects of your life and self that you choose to bring to our sessions. I do this for as long as the relationship is fruitful for both of us.

Many Spiritual Companions (also called Spiritual Directors) have some sort of formal training, although the length, intensity, and approach of these programs vary.

At this time, the U.S. has no formal national certification for Spiritual Companions (Canada does).

Spiritual Companions should be in an ongoing relationship with their own Spiritual Companion/Director and should participate in regular supervision for Spiritual Companions.

Many companions are also members of professional organizations. I am a member of Spiritual Directors International (SDI) and received my Companioning training at Richmont Graduate University in Atlanta, GA.

Spiritual Companions are as different as people are different, in personality, style, and affiliation. That’s why it’s important to spend a few sessions getting to know a possible Spiritual Companion so that you can decide whether the relationship will work for you.

My Spiritual Companioning practice is independent of any organization or tradition other than that of Spiritual Companionship itself.

I consider myself a contemplative. For me, this means that I give myself the space to listen and pay attention to what’s happening inside me as live my life.