Spiritual Direction

Drawing upon your spirituality to live an integrated life

Spiritual direction can best be described as a space of listening. I, as the director, listen to you with deep compassion and unconditional positive regard. I then help you hear yourself. If it’s part of your practice, I also help you listen for and hear the Sacred in your life.

My hope is that as we journey together, you will become more yourself - fully alive and at ease within yourself and attuned to the joy+wonder+support of your interconnectedness.

    • Attuned, empathetic care and attention

    • Freedom to be who you are, no masks or expectations

    • Safety to feel feelings and speak your truths

    • Being held and supported by the Sacred

    • Sort through the complex layers of your experiences

    • Return to a place of inner alignment 

    • Find a way forward out of your own inner wisdom

    • Learn to trust yourself and exercise agency

    • Ground in something bigger than yourself

    • Explore & access your spirituality as an inner resource

    • Difficult life seasons or challenging relationships

    • Making major life decisions

    • Places of stuck-ness, grief, or wounds

    • Exploring and expanding their spirituality

    • Navigating identity

    • Questions and doubts around faith 

    • Desire to experience the Divine or the Sacred

  • Spiritual direction with Alison has meant having a space with someone calm and deeply caring, who has gotten to know my patterns and can help guide me back toward my truer self - the self that is assured of her belovedness and lives more fully out of that knowledge. Spiritual direction has given me new and more creative images of God, ones that don't feel so distant and removed from the messiness of my day-to-day. I'm very grateful for the ways I've grown.

    Niquita

  • “I’ve had the privilege of being under the care of Alison and my time of spiritual direction has been nothing short of transformational. Alison listens with her entire being when I’m speaking and when I’m in silence, and she understands me perfectly in both stages. I feel like I understand myself more deeply and more clearly than ever before thanks to her care.”

    Darren

  • “Spiritual direction with Alison has been so pivotal to my own mental wellbeing, health, maturity, and growth. Alison was there with me through some really tough things and also really high highs. Her support helped me get back on track and hold onto hope. She also helped facilitate interactions with God that were healing and helped me grow.”

    Alex

  • “Spiritual direction with Alison has given me a space to come with the parts of me that I am confident in and the parts that feel messy. During our time together, I've been able to evaluate my conception of God, recognize conflicting beliefs, and move towards a vision of a God who truly loves and cares for all of me. Our time together has helped me become more integrated, authentic, and confident.”

    Josie

  • You have complete freedom in what you bring to talk about in our time. All of your life is sacred so you can choose anything! Together we will explore what you bring and discover what it means for your relationship to the sacred/self/others/the land.

    I will not have an agenda for our time, but will simply be attentive to what I’m noticing in you, offering open-ended questions and reflecting back to you what I hear you say.

  • Spiritual direction is the type of space that meets you where you are and uses your frameworks for processing. If you have a religious affiliation, then that will be welcome and part of our conversation! If you don’t have a religious affiliation, then religion won’t be a part of our conversation unless you bring it up.

  • We will begin with a time of centering to help us arrive in the space and get present. This will look different depending upon your needs. After centering, we will explore whatever you brought to our time as I ask questions and reflect back to you your own words. Depending on what emerges, I may offer a practice for us to do in our time together. You will always have a choice as to what you’d like to do.

  • Each session will last around 60 minutes.

    Typically, spiritual direction happens once a month. However, depending on what you need, we can adjust. Some folks who want more support meet with me every other week. Others who have demanding schedules meet with me quarterly. We can discern this together!

  • I never want money to be a barrier to someone receiving care, so I've developed a sliding scale system based on income. This is a suggested fee meaning that if you can’t afford the suggested amount per your income, you can adjust it.

    Income → Suggested fee per session

    Under $30,000 → Let’s have a conversation

    $30,000-40,000 → $30-60

    $40,000-60,000 → $60-80

    $60,000-100,000 → $80-100

    $100,000-150,000 → $100-150

    $150,000-200,000 → $150-185

    $200,000-250,000 → $185-250

    $250,000+ → 250+


    If this feels like a barrier, please let me know. Scholarships are available. If you would like to pay more as a way of creating access for others, you are welcome to do so.

  • Register below for a free informational call!

    During this call, we will get to know each other and you can learn more about what it would be like to have me accompany you. If you’d like to move forward, we’ll schedule a time for our first session.

  • “Spiritual direction with Alison has been an anchor amidst the turbulent storm of my past year. I have felt seen, known, held, cared for, challenged, and stretched during my time in spiritual direction. It has been a safe place for me to explore and discern my faith, my relationship with myself and with God. I have more clearly known and experienced what it means to belong to myself and God."

    Kylie

  • I arrive to our meeting with a jumble of thoughts, experiences and dilemmas that feel overwhelming and look like a tangled ball of yarn in my head. With your listening help, I get to start untangling some of the yarn until it’s more like a straight strand leading to God's goodness for me. I also feel very cared for in our sessions.

    Kate

  • "Spiritual direction with Alison fundamentally transformed how I think about prayer. Her guidance not only helped me to hear and speak with God in ways I never thought possible, but also to feel God's presence in the sorrow and joy of everyday life. Our sessions have had a lasting impact on how I connect with God, with myself, and with the world around me."

    Marty

  • "Walking into spiritual direction with Alison, I wasn't too sure what I would experience, but I knew I was interested in learning about new ways to grow in my relationship with God. Our times together ended up growing an intimacy with the Lord that I didn't know was possible! Alison gently guided me through difficult conversations and discerning God's voice – I left our meetings with a sureness of God's presence and love, and a desire to show others the beauty of contemplative prayer."

    Taylor

Let’s discern together

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My Commitments to You

  • I will always use your language and operate within the framework of your beliefs

  • I will never tell you what to believe

  • I will ask thoughtful questions to help you navigate the deeper spaces within you

  • I will honor your life as sacred

  • I will listen with curiosity, compassion, and deep presence

  • I will attend to your experiences with gentleness and warmth

  • I will meet with a supervisor in order to continue growing and provide the best support

  • I will keep your information confidential

  • I will honor your agency by offering ways for you to change the space

  • I will trust your internal authority and stay with your experience

  • I will seek to cultivate a space that meets your needs