Spiritual Care

I am currently earning a Spiritual Direction Certificate and will be offering one on one spiritual care and coaching, while in training, beginning in early 2026. I also teach at Cherry Hill Seminary.

I have offered spiritual care in many hard places: mental health institutions, hospitals, jails, and homeless camps. I was trained in a model of mental health chaplaincy developed by Deborah Little Wyman, founder of Ecclesia Ministries, and Craig Rennebohm, author of Souls in the Hands of a Tender God. In these times of hardship and change, I believe that being with people, without judgment, is one of the most important things spiritual care providers can do.

My own spiritual experience is varied. My earliest experiences of religion in far-right, fundamentalist Protestantism were particularly difficult. I was ordained in the Episcopal Church in the U.S. for a decade, serving as an interfaith chaplain, and I have practiced Paganism for the past decade and a half. Connection to land and the other-than-human world has always been a central part of my spiritual experience.

I am particularly interested in offering spiritual care and support to people who are queer and trans and to people who are involved in organizing and activism. We are in particularly difficult times, as empires fall apart, but these moments also offer opportunities to reimagine the world. I want to support people in navigating how to hold on to hope, how to plan resistance, and how to find rest as resistance as well. We all deserve vibrant and supportive communities who can care for us and fully support us, and as we work to build those for the long haul, we can find smaller ways to support each other and find community. I hope to create such a space.   

I am also committed to wrestling with the legacies of colonialism in Western spiritual practice and working to end capitalism and colonialism as a moral imperative.