Mindfulness for Congregations.
Therapy for Clergy.

Having served in congregational leadership for over 15 years prior to becoming a therapist, I am passionate about the intersection of mental health and spirituality, especially for clergy and other spiritual leaders.

I bring a systems perspective to my work with congregations. This means understanding how all aspects of your work are deeply interconnected—including staff structure, worship, theology, decision-making processes, volunteer engagement, community involvement, and so much more. Understanding these connections allows us to consider small changes that maximize effectiveness in deepening relationships, improving communication, solving problems, addressing challenges, and adapting to change.

Potential areas ocongregations may choose to focus on:

Individual therapy with clergy—

  • I enjoy working with clergy and other congregational leaders who want to prevent or recover from compassion fatigue and burnout or who need confidential space to process the daily stressors of ministry

Church staffs & committees—

  • Identifying specific organizational patterns and processes that lead to stress points, then engaging in values-based actions that can interrupt these cycles. This increases your capacity for responding flexibly and creatively in challenging situations, leading to healthier team dynamics, and more effective ministry.

  • Learning and implementing mindfulness practices specifically designed for reducing compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout. We'll work to cultivate perspectives, skills, and systemic shifts that nurture the potential for compassion resilience, ensuring sustainable service to your community.

Values clarification—

I've developed a values exercise to guide individuals and groups identify their top 3 core values. This experience can be individualized to your needs—in the past I have used the values exercise with small groups, committees, staff teams and as the focus of workshops and retreats. Clarifying and making values actionable leads to:

  • better understanding team members’ motivations and decision-making processes

  • strengthening alignment between personal values and congregational mission

  • fostering more effective collaboration and mutual respect

  • reducing conflict by increasing empathy and understanding

  • guiding strategic planning and resource allocation decisions

Feel free to get in touch with other ideas as well—I love collaborating to discern how mindfulness, resilience-building, and values clarification can strengthen your congregation's capacity to meet challenges with wisdom and compassion while fostering sustainable, meaningful ministry.

Time and rates vary. Please contact me so we can work together to design a mindfulness program to meet your needs.