Over the years, I have gained extensive experience providing spiritual care to seekers, doubters, and believers alike. My contemplative approach is profoundly influenced by insights from the Desert Elders and other wise mystics from various religious traditions.

Since my ordination 20 years ago, I have worked in congregational as well as community ministry. From 2022-2025, I served as Community Minister for Spiritual Direction at Arlington Street Church in Boston; during that time, I was also convener of the Greater Boston chapter of Spiritual Directors International (SDI). In 2023, I was invited to be a presenter at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago, speaking to a global audience about feminist spiritual direction with women.

Wisdom from Judaism, Christianity, Taoism, Vedanta, Buddhism, Sufism, and American Transcendentalist thought are all illuminating for me. I have a personal affinity for those from multifaith backgrounds, being interspiritual myself. These days, I feel a particular call to offer helping professionals spiritual support and can offer a special focus on the work of moral injury and moral repair.

In addition to serving as a spiritual director, I am an Interim Religious Professional, yoga instructor, certified pastoral counselor, community minister, psychotherapist, and educator. I am currently an instructor and mentor in the Apprenticeship Program at the Phoenix Center for Spiritual Direction, as well as a book reviewer for Presence, the scholarly journal of  SDI. I act as a supervisor for practicing spiritual directors. I am also Co-Chair of the Spirituality & Flourishing group in the Harvard Flourishing Network.

To learn more about my spiritual direction approach, watch this 2022 video from Streams of Grace:

https://youtu.be/C63FS-b959k?si=CUAuwsIfaAX5mzOg

To learn more about my philosophy of spiritual direction, read this 2024 essay of mine in Living City:

https://www.focolaremedia.com/magazine/content/practicing-presence

“Wisdom is so kind and wise that wherever you may look,” Catherine of Siena said, “you can learn something about God.” I deeply believe that both wisdom and kindness are central to the spiritual life. Perhaps you do, too. Together we can watch for what the Sacred/Eternal/Divine has to teach us, with eyes wide open…

The spiritual director offers the following kinds of spiritual direction services, and is available to meet in the following manners.

Service Offerings: Individual Spiritual Direction, Group Spiritual Direction, Supervision of Spiritual Directors

Session Format: In Person, Online (Zoom, Skype, etc.), Telephone

Payment Notes: Individual sessions cost $165 with a sliding scale available ; groups session $55 with a sliding scale available; electronic payment is accepted in Venmo or Zelle.

UU Wellspring Approved? UU Wellspring Spiritual Director

The spiritual director identifies in the following ways.

Gender: Woman

Identities:

Other Important Identities: Pilgrim/Peregrina

The spiritual director has direct experience, training, or expertise in the following areas.

Specializations: Addictions, Alcoholism, Creative Arts, Death/Dying/Hospice Care, Grief and Loss, Mature Adults/Elderly, Mental Health, Midlife, Relationships, Trauma, Women’s Issues, Young Adults

Spiritual Spheres: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism/Vedanta, Interfaith, Interspiritual, Judaism, Quaker, Spiritual but Not Religious, Spiritual Independent, Sufism, Taoism

This is where the spiritual director received their training, how often they receive supervision, and the professional associations where they are members.

Supervision: Individual meetings with a Supervisor (Monthly or more)