Areas of Specialty
What I can offer
Young Adults
Young adulthood is such a time of possibility and promise, but all that possibility can also feel so completely overwhelming. Where do you start? How do you navigate the challenging waters of relationships when you’re really still trying to figure out who you are? How do you renegotiate relationships with parents? How do you choose and launch a career when the stakes feel so high?
It really helps during this time to have someone in your corner who is not a relative or a professor or a boss, who can listen with new ears, support you as you sort through the the competing messages and help you find your way.
Older Adults
The last 1/3 of life is a time for enjoying what you have planted over a lifetime, but it can also be a time of disorientation as you consider the loss of cherished roles and the purpose they offered, navigate regrets and grieve the friends and abilities that are passing away.
I’d like to help you find new sources of meaning and purpose, offer tools for repairing and reframing areas of regret and provide supportive practices for navigating grief and loss.
Spirituality
I believe that all people are inherently spiritual. Human beings are meaning-makers. Meaning frameworks form the structures that shelter our values, our sense of purpose and our feelings of worth. As distressing as a spiritual crisis can be, most people will experience a threat to their structure of meaning at some point in their lives through a serious illness, a significant loss, a relational crisis or a disappointment.
If this is where you are, I can offer support as you sift through the rubble of your structure of meaning, helping you identify what could be salvaged and what needs to be replaced. Together we can build a new house of meaning that can hold who you are now.
Grief and Loss
Whether it comes through a death or through a long anticipated change, loss touches each of us. Often it catches us unaware. Loss is inherent in growth and change. Sometimes it rips our heart out. And sometimes it opens the door for new possibility and life. Loss is inevitable but grieving these losses, giving them space to teach us, to deepen us . . . sadly this is optional.
Grief is a scary place to go alone. I can go there with you; wait with you in the shadows, looking, until the hidden treasures of this sacred time begin to appear.
Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
