FAQs

  • I work with individuals in the helping professions — therapists, coaches, chaplains, ministers, social workers, caregivers — who have spent years showing up for everyone else and have quietly lost the thread of their own lives. The work is about coming back to yourself so you can love yourself, and show up again in your relationships, from a place of presence and joy.

    For couples, I am passionate about helping engaged couples prepare as best they can for life of happiness. And working with married couples, especially new parents, on learning the premarital counseling lessons they never got, but know they need.

  • Spiritual counseling works with the questions that don’t fit anywhere else — the longing for purpose that feels bigger than your job description, grief that has a sacred dimension, the sense that your life is asking something of you and you’re not sure what. It’s the kind of conversation that gets to the root rather than the symptom.

    I hold an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School and ordination as an interfaith minister. I’ve spent over a decade sitting with people in their hardest moments — in hospital rooms, on campuses, and in private practice.

    I believe everyone deserves to feel a sense of purpose, meaning and love.

  • Hypnotherapy guides you into a deeply relaxed state where your subconscious mind becomes more open and receptive. You're always aware and in control. It is is similar to guided meditation or guided imagery. Yet, it has been clinically proven to support a variety of issues that therapy alone struggles to change.

    From a relaxed and calm place, we work to shift patterns, process stored emotions, and access your own inner wisdom.

    It’s particularly effective for:

    • Patterns that keep repeating no matter how much conscious work you’ve done

    • Grief, old wounds, and emotional weight that hasn’t shifted with talk alone

    • The chronic exhaustion and anxiety that comes with holding other people’s pain professionally

    • Reconnecting with a sense of purpose or identity that has gone quiet

    • Lasting change around sleep, boundaries, habits, and self-worth

  • Anxiety, grief, trauma, fear or phobias, chronic stress, life transitions, and healing through illness.

    Much of my experience is working to address burnout, postpartum support, sexual trauma recovery, and those on a health journey navigating surgeries or ongoing treatment.

  • Somatic work starts with the understanding that what we carry doesn’t just live in our minds — it lives in our bodies too. In our nervous systems, our breath, our posture, the way we brace or shut down without meaning to.

    In practice this might look like guided breathwork, body awareness exercises, or simply learning to notice and trust what your body is already telling you. For people in helping professions — who are often trained to override their own signals in service of others — this work tends to be where the deepest shifts happen.

  • Not at all. My approach is multi-faith and pluralistic which means I can honor and draw from multiple religious and spiritual traditions (Christianity, Buddhism, Tantra, Indigenous wisdom, contemplative practices, and more). I never impose any belief system on you. Rather, I hope to help you enhance your own spiritual path.

    I work with people who are:

    • Deeply religious and want spiritual support outside their congregation

    • Spiritual-but-not-religious

    • In the middle of deconstruction or leaving organized religion

    • Healing from religious trauma while reclaiming what was meaningful

    • Atheist or agnostic and want the benefits of these practices without religious framing

    • Wrestling with big questions about God, meaning, or purpose

    • Wanting to integrate practices from different traditions

    • Deepening their existing faith in new ways

    As a spiritual counselor and chaplain, my role is never to tell you what to believe. I help you reconnect with your own inner wisdom and find the spiritual grounding that makes sense for your life. We can incorporate prayer, holy texts, or religious language if that resonates with you—or work in completely secular terms. It’s up to you!

  • Spiritual counseling and hypnotherapy work at a different level than talk therapy — more somatic, more experiential, and more attuned to the spiritual and relational dimensions of a life. Many of my clients come specifically because they’ve hit a ceiling in talk therapy and sense there’s more to move through. The two work beautifully together.

  • We begin with a short conversation to establish your goals for hypnotherapy and find out if we are a good fit. Then, if I believe I can help you with your issue we will set up a time for a session.

    From the comfort of your home or a quiet place where you will not be disturbed, I will gently guide you into a state of deep relaxation. From there, we can unlock old patterns and explore a new path toward constant, lasting change.

    Depending on your issue, you may see improvement within 3 to 6 sessions, or some people find helpful to continue with regular sessions to help maintain balance and wellness.

    Depending on what's needed, we may utilize hypnotherapy, somatic awareness, breathwork, or other contemplative practices. Sessions are 60–90 minutes, online via secure video.

  • Book a free 20-minute call. No obligation — just a chance to connect and see if this work is right for you.

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For Referring Professionals

  • Adults navigating health crises (especially cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship), grief and anticipatory grief, anxiety, trauma, postpartum, sexual assault recovery, and spiritual distress. I also work with caregivers and family members alongside patients.

  • I'm an ordained interfaith chaplain with an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School and a certified clinical hypnotherapist. I also hold training in somatic coaching, trauma-informed care, Gottman Method Couples Counseling (Level II), mindfulness instruction, and certified mediation.

  • Yes, and I welcome it. With client permission, I'm happy to coordinate with therapists, oncologists, social workers, or palliative care teams. My work is designed to complement, not replace, clinical care.

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