In addition to my other counselling services, I also offer Soulful Therapy sessions. This is a flexible form of Integrative Therapy that combines my full range of professional experience - my depth and breadth of knowledge in trauma-informed counselling, psychology, mindfulness and spirituality. I adapt our sessions to offer an individualised approach to my client’s unique needs. It allows me to respond to my clients holistically: paying attention to my client’s emotions, thoughts, behaviours and somatics.

For those clients (like me) who are outside the church and institutional religion, who still have soulful longings that are kinda messy, complicated and nuanced, and who wish to, we can also include your spirituality in our therapy sessions.

Designed to support people who are faith-shifting or recovering from religious harm, or perhaps who find it hard to safely talk about spirituality/God/Source/Mystery without being re-traumatised, but still want to. These 50 minute sessions draw on my Spiritual Formation skills, without the classical spiritual constructs that may be triggering or harmful for people who have experienced religious harm. As a former pastor with lived experience of recovery from religious trauma, I know how lonely and confusing it can be when our spirituality becomes paired with traumatic experiences. I know how hard it is to find a safe space to make meaning of a shattered worldview following spiritual abuse.

This may be a useful resource + support for you if:

• your relationship with spirituality is kinda complicated.

• your soulful / spiritual longings are associated with spiritual harm or trauma.

• you’ve experienced a rupture or shift in your experience of faith, life / Mystery / Source / the Sacred (insert your word here).

• you want to explore what a meaningful, authentic, soul-nourishing life looks like for you.

• your faith has dissolved, evolved, or is in an in-between, un-resolved place.

• you find concepts like ‘spiritual direction’, ‘church’ or ‘God’ difficult or triggering.

• you’d like a safe person to support you as you explore what (if any) kind of relationship you might want with the Sacred now.

• no pressure, no assumptions, simply offering my openess and presence to help you hear what you’d like your spirituality to be like.