In our work together there might or might not be time to focus on the spiritual underpinnings of your experience. If you were seeing me for spiritual guidance and were showing signs of depression, I would invite you to explore how your experience of depression relates to your experience of God, to wonder about what your soul might be communicating to you through this depression. I would be present with you and help you to honor what are inevitable cycles of energy and depletion in our soul's journey. And, I also might refer you to a counselor if I thought all the other actions mentioned above needed doing as well. The reason we are choosing to offer spiritual guidance as a separate option apart from counseling, even when the counseling includes a spiritual focus, springs from the reality that when most people have fifty minutes to talk, and both immediate functional needs and deeper soul concerns are on the table, the immediate functional needs win out.
Problem solving takes up the time.
In offering spiritual guidance we hope to provide intentional space for the deeper soul concerns that too often get lost. Frequency of meetings varies from every other week to once a month. Both individual and group options are available.