Spiritual Direction and Life Coaching
Spiritual Direction and Life Coaching – What’s it all about?
Spiritual Direction
Helping discern God’s voice and movement in your life, with the desire for deeper connection and support for your soul. Typically spiritual seekers are yearning for a deeper awareness and a felt connection with God, or one’s Higher Power.
Spiritual Direction/Mentoring involves deep listening, with openness to together sensing and interpreting the “divine milieu,” utilizing talk and reflective listening, prayer, dream work, films, stories, and journaling.
“Goal setting” and “fixing” are not terms used in this type of soul support.
Psychospiritual Coaching & Grief Support
Helping discover and determine a vision and goals for one’s life as lived in the physical realm (the physical, mental, social, financial, etc.) that are consistent with one’s highest ideals and desires. This may also include a focus on one’s spiritual life, as well as on those losses that invariably accompany life, which result in our need for support and guidance as we navigate the journey through grief.
Helping find and remove the barriers or “roadblocks” to accomplishing these goals and the definite major purpose for one’s life, and
Communicating this and responding through every part of one’s being, life, thoughts, and actions/practices so that one may dream, discover, plan, work, and achieve in full accordance with those values and goals.
About me
M.Ed. in Counseling from the University of Missouri-Columbia; M.B.A. in Management & Leadership from Rockhurst University; Certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Souljourners Program; Certified Grief Recovery Specialist with the Grief Recovery Institute; Certificate in Mediation from the Center for Conflict Resolution; Board Certified Life Coach; member, Spiritual Directors International; and Board Certified Coach from the Institute of Life Coach Training & National Center for Credentialing Education; D.Th. in Multi-faith Spiritual Direction from Capstone University;
Fees for Lifesoul and grief coaching: $50-$80/session. Discounts are available for veterans, students, those widowed, and single parents. Lifesoul Coaching offers a free, complimentary 15-minute phone interview prior to sessions if desired. Fees can be paid by cash, check, PayPal, or Zelle.
Location for sessions: We provide support over the phone, online, and in the South Kansas City, MO/Leawood, KS area, with the opportunity for sessions to be arranged at a local coffee shop.
Lifesoul Coaching does not work with insurance companies and so does not accept insurance. The reasoning is this: since those who are seeking spiritual support for their soul, those desiring to go from “OK” to “better,” or those who are grieving the death of a loved one (or another significant loss) are not sick, they therefore do not need to be diagnosed or given a label.
Issues addressed may include spiritual questioning; discernment for callings, vocations, and ministry; subclinical anxiety, depression, and acute/post-traumatic stress; career issues; death of a loved one; life transitions; marital and pre- and post-marital relationships; a need to grow from grief and to reinvest in your life as it is now; or an overall desire to get your life back “on track” and to live a richer, more fulfilled life, more consistent with your core values.
The goal of Lifesoul Coaching is to provide these professional forms of soul support and life coaching in a sensitive, compassionate, and confidential* manner that is also cost-effective with reasonable rates. *Confidentiality may not be held in matters involving threats or harm to yourself or others.
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Helping styles utilized include therapeutic alliance, empathetic and reflective listening, with strategies drawn from mindfulness and therapeutic models such as Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Coaching, the Grief Recovery Method, Positive Psychology, cinematherapy, and dreamwork, with guidance on journaling and planning a pilgrimage. All support provided is offered in a culturally sensitive manner.
A note on counseling referrals: clinically trained guidance is offered with suggestions on what forms of therapy one might investigate and pursue. The practice of Lifesoul Coaching does not, however, diagnose or label. When mental, emotional, or behavioral conditions are mutually determined to possibly be of a more serious nature—as in developmental, medical, neuroanatomical, or biochemical disturbances that are included in the DSM-5 manual of mental health disorders, better treated through a physician or a licensed mental health professional—a list of providers will be made available for appropriate follow-up.
