I’ve always been curious about people. Some of my earliest childhood memories are asking family members about what they were like when they were kids. I was fascinated by the ways people changed throughout a lifetime while also seeing parts of people’s personality and lives that carried forward from childhood — taking new shape and embodiment in every season of life — with them. It taught me that everyone has a story and that behind how we experience people in the present, there is a history that illuminates our capacity to love and be loved and how we exist in the world.

In my own journey with God, one of the ways I experienced God was as a safe place where my truest self and my most honest experiences were met with acceptance and embrace. It allowed for the ups and downs of my own story to no longer be a series of disparate events that happen throughout life but that they find their significance and definition within God’s larger story. My curiosity expanded from how people become who they are to where they see God in the totality of their experiences.

My exploration of where curiosity of story and God intersected led me to a completing a BA in psychology from UC San Diego followed by a Masters of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary. I then served as a pastor for 7 years prior to getting trained as a spiritual director with Nuos Formation.

At the heart of what spiritual direction looks like with me is curiosity and trust. I am interested in walking alongside people and helping them encounter their truest selves in relationship with God and what that unlocks in their lives. Our time together is marked with trust in the loving presence of a relational God who desires to meet us in our most authentic selves. What we do in spiritual direction is explore where God is in the midst of the totality of life — in the mundane tasks of the day-to-day, the big transitions of life, the questions we’ve wondered about but never let ourselves ask, the doubts about who God is, and the feelings that we have about life that can surprise us and catch us off guard. We walk through them and hold these parts of your life not as random or meaningless to God but parts of our lives that matter to God and through which He draws us into deeper relationship.