What is Spiritual Direction?

Spiritual direction is a relationship where space is made for noticing God’s activity within ordinary, daily life. A Spiritual Director serves as a prayerful listener to both the directee and the...

A Critical Journey: When Faith Changes

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How do I start building a Rule of Life?

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Growing in Self-Awareness and Acceptance

Self-awareness is a lifelong journey of noticing what’s happening within us... in our thoughts, emotions, and physical experiences. Alongside that work, we learn to meet ourselves with honesty and...

Examen-ing your life

"The prayer of examen is the specific searching every day to find where God's love is active this day, where God's love is leading today, to discern what within me may be resisting that leading and...

Breath Prayers

A breath prayer is exactly what it sounds like. A prayer you breathe. And as often as you become aware of your breathing, you can incorporate your own personal breath prayer. This way of breathing...

Labyrinth: A Way to Pray

A labyrinth is a physical way to pray, and for me personally a picture of the spiritual journey. It’s not a maze, it has a center and one way to get there. There are two movements, toward and away....

Finding Peace in Pause

In the past 18 months, I’ve felt a growing need for more quiet and space in my day. Maybe I’m just overwhelmed, or maybe Jesus knows what I need. I’ve shifted from structured Bible study to a...

Spiritual Direction online + in-person

Meet Monica

Meet Monica

Spiritual Director

Salem, Oregon  |  video sessions
Online Booking | Fee: Directee Decision

I offer spiritual direction sessions online and in person. I have found I feel most like myself alongside others on their spiritual journey. It’s a priviledge to meet people where they are. I find myself drawing heavily on my own experience with doubts and questions, with help from self-awareness tools like the Enneagram, and with a trauma-informed, resiliency-focused approach. Ultimately, I hope to create space where you can be more real with (and kind towards) yourself, and experience God as active, present, and full of love.

My faith journey buoys me — I’m grateful for my ecclectic multifaith upbringing, a college-aged Evangelical conversion, and exploring long-held liturgical traditions, Ignatian spirituality, and contemplative practices. I hold master’s degrees in both Teaching and Christian Spiritual Formation, and currently serve as a chaplain alongside young adults experiencing homelessness. I received my certificate in Spiritual Direction from School of Sustainable Faith, an organization that “forms students in lives of compassionate, discerning listening to God, others, and themselves.”

I journey through life with my husband, two sons, and best-dog. I enjoy evenings of jazz radio (shoutout KMHD 89.1), puzzles, daily walks through the neighborhood and local cemetery, and am embracing my mid-life, sourdough era.

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“Monica creates a loving, non-judgmental space where I can question, share my fears, and explore my root struggles. She helps me quiet my mind to connect with God in a way I sometimes can’t do on my own because my thoughts are moving too quickly. I am so thankful to have Monica guide me.”

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