Specialty

Faith and Spiritual Integration

For Those Who Have Outgrown the Easy Answers

Perhaps you have been a person of faith for most of your life. But somewhere along the way, the easy answers stopped being enough. The faith of your childhood, or the faith of your community, no longer seems to hold the full weight of your experience.

Perhaps you have walked through something that shook your foundations: a loss, a betrayal, a season of profound doubt. Perhaps you have experienced what some call deconstruction, the slow, painful process of dismantling a faith that no longer fits, without yet knowing what will take its place.

Or perhaps you are simply exhausted by the performance of religious life: the pressure to appear certain, to project faith, to hold it all together in the pew while quietly carrying your shadowlands alone.

"The shadowlands are not the absence of faith. They are often where the deepest faith is forged."

Sophisticated Care That Honors Your Journey

My approach to faith integration is not traditional biblical counseling. It is not a program of religious instruction or a set of spiritual disciplines to follow. It is a contemplative, neuroscience-grounded journey that takes your spiritual life seriously as a dimension of your whole story.

Drawing on my two decades of pastoral experience and my background as a seminary professor, I bring a deep respect for the Christian tradition alongside a genuine openness to the complexity of the spiritual journey. I am as comfortable with the mystics, Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr, the Celtic saints, as I am with the neuroscience of spiritual experience.

In our work together, we do not try to resolve your doubts or restore a faith that no longer fits. Instead, we explore the spiritual dimensions of your story with curiosity and compassion. We look at the archetypal injuries that may be shaping your spiritual experience. And we walk the couragepath together, toward a faith that is not smaller than your experience, but larger.

Begin the Journey

From the Writings

When the Map No Longer Fits the Territory: A Contemplative Guide to Faith Deconstruction

There is a particular kind of disorientation that comes not from losing your way, but from discovering that the map you have been following no longer corresponds to the territory you are actually walking through.

Spiritual Shadowlands: Navigating Faith Deconstruction Without Losing Your Soul

There is a season in the spiritual life that no one prepares you for: the season when the faith that once held you begins to feel too small for the life you are actually living. This is not a crisis of faith. It is an invitation to a larger one.

The Mosaic I Had to Build First: The Origin Story of Life Telling Processing

The recovery from a rotational brain injury was, at its deepest level, a spiritual journey as much as a neurological one. The questions it raised, about identity, continuity, and trust in a future not yet visible, are the same questions that bring many people to the threshold of faith integration work.

Stay on the Couragepath

Occasional reflections on the neuroscience of healing, the contemplative life, and the deeper story. No noise. No sales. Just the work.