Pastoral Counseling

Like secular counselors, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists, pastoral counselors - who are also trained in psychologically-sound therapy - seek to promote client healing and growth. In pastoral counseling, spirituality is interwoven with therapeutic practices to assist clients who seek support from their own religious beliefs and practices, or who wrestle with questions of faith and doubt. Personal experience has taught Debbie that healing from current or past difficulties is best supported by a combination of psychological understanding and spiritual resources. Pastoral counseling is a safe place for exploring your questions about God while confronting psychological, emotional or spiritual challenges such as: 

• confusing and difficult life choices
• loss of loved ones
• anxiety or depression 
• relationship concerns 
• challenging life transitions 

By exploring your deepest longings, desires and yearnings, spiritual direction opens you to new possibilities and invites you to the fullness of life. Soul, depth, awe, passion, stillness, patient expectation and surprise are just a few words to describe what you might encounter in spiritual direction.  Central to the conversation in a spiritual direction session are your experiences, understandings and questions about living with and within God and the Sacred Mystery.