Creating Space for the Questions That Matter
How this group came about...
The idea for this group grew out of my experience as a multi-faith chaplain leading spiritual and religious support groups in inpatient mental health programs for many years. Through running these groups I quickly realized that the conversations and healing happening in them could benefit anyone interested in exploring their spirituality more deeply and developing a meaningful relationship with what they consider sacred.
Over the same time I also noticed how few opportunities people have to simply talk openly about what they believe with the sole purpose of becoming clearer and more intentional about their beliefs and practices.
There are many ways to nourish and expand your spirituality, and each one offers something different. Religious communities offer teaching, worship, and belonging. Meditation classes and retreats introduce spiritual practices. Psychotherapy focuses primarily on psychological healing while spiritual direction offers guidance and reflection. What is often missing is a structured opportunity to step back and explore the whole of your beliefs and practices—and to do so in community with others.
Spiritually Integrated Group Psychotherapy (covered by most insurers!) was created to offer something different: a structured space to explore the big questions of spirituality and religion, encounter perspectives from diverse traditions, and clarify what you genuinely believe and want to practice.
The goal is not to tell anyone what to believe, but to help you develop a spiritual and religious framework that is your own—one that can nourish you, orient you, and deepen your relationship with yourself and the sacred.
This group will help you explore life’s big questions like: What do I believe? What gives life meaning? How do I relate to the sacred? How do I want to live? And how might my spirituality become a source of greater integration and peace?
Bringing 15 Years of Experience to the Group
Over the past 15 years, I’ve had the good fortune of supporting hundreds of people in group settings looking to deepen their understanding of how spirituality can become a personal resource for healing, meaning and transformation.
The idea for this group grew out of similar spiritual and religious groups I facilitated for many years with people experiencing anxiety and depression, addictions, and post-traumatic stress disorder in an inpatient mental health setting. Through this work, I saw how powerful it can be to have a structured space where people can explore their beliefs, ask meaningful questions, encounter different perspectives, and consider how spirituality might support their ongoing process of healing and change.
Alongside this experience, I’ve spent more than a decade leading meditation groups, Tai Chi and yoga classes, and facilitating different forms of religious and spiritual teaching, worship and ceremony. My experience includes a variety of spiritual and religious traditions and contexts including Christianity, Indigenous, Yogic, Daoist and Buddhist.
I am a Registered Psychotherapist specializing in spiritually integrated psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing®, and I bring this range of experience to the group with an open, non-denominational approach. I will create a thoughtful and supportive environment where you can explore the questions that matter to you and develop a spiritual and religious framework that is genuinely your own.
Each Session Will Include:
- A prayer, contemplative reading, or reflection from one of the world's wisdom traditions
- A period of silence
- An introduction to the week's theme, exploring how it has been understood across different traditions and cultures
- Group discussion and reflection
- An opportunity to clarify your own beliefs, questions, and practices
Each week will offer concrete takeaways that build upon the previous sessions. By the end of the eight weeks, participants will have had the opportunity to develop a more coherent and personally meaningful framework for the practice of their unique spiritualities.
This Group is a Good Fit for Individuals Who:
- Are curious, open-minded, and open-hearted about spirituality and religion.
- Want to actively develop a spiritual or religious belief system that nourishes and enriches their lives.
- Want to deepen their understanding of how their beliefs and practices can be integrated and how they can meaningfully engage their spirituality.
- Are seeking greater internal coherence, meaning, purpose, and direction.
- Want to explore their relationship with the sacred or ultimate reality of existence.
- Are interested in clarifying what they believe
- Want to explore values, spiritual practices, and ways of living that support growth, transformation, and peace.
- Are interested in developing a more personally meaningful and integrated spiritual life.
This Group May Not Be the Best Fit If You:
- Are primarily interested in deconstructing or critiquing religion or religious institutions.
- Are looking primarily to discuss the harms or limitations of religion.
- Are seeking to process significant spiritual or religious trauma.
- Want to focus primarily on difficult past experiences rather than developing a vision for what you want to move toward.
- Are looking for intensive processing of painful experiences
NOTE: All of these would better be suited for one on one Spiritually integrated psychotherapy
An Inclusive Non-Denominational Approach
This is a non-denominational group. No particular spiritual or religious tradition will be presented as the correct one.
The group will draw from a wide range of spiritual and religious traditions, including the perspectives shared by the facilitator and current group participants. The purpose is not to convince you of a particular belief system, but to expose you to the breadth of ways human beings have understood spirituality, religion, life, death, God, morality, healing, and transformation.
The Eight Weeks- What's covered over the course of the group
1. Finding your Unique Path to the Sacred
“What is this group going to be about?”
We begin by orienting and defining terms such as spirituality, religion, spiritual life, and spiritual practice. What does it mean to intentionally cultivate a spiritual life, and what might that look like for me?
2. God, Great Spirit, Creator & Divine Mystery
“Is there an ultimate something out there—and what could this mean to me?”
This session we explore questions of ultimate reality. How have people understood God, the Divine, Great Spirit, the Absolute, ultimate reality, and sacred mystery?
3. Life, Death, the Soul & the Afterlife
“What do I think this life is all about—and is there something after?”
We turn toward the nature and meaning of human existence. What is a human being? Why are we here? What happens when we die? What might the soul be?
4. Authority, Teachers, Scriptures & Spiritual Traditions
“Who do I learn all of this from—and how can I take it further?”
We consider how spiritual knowledge is transmitted. What role should teachers, scriptures, traditions, religious communities, mystical experiences, and personal experience play in shaping our beliefs?
5. Prayer, Meditation & Spiritual Practice
“How do I learn to meditate or pray in a way that feels right for me?”
We move from what we believe to what we do. How have different traditions cultivated relationships with the sacred? What practices might help us develop attention, presence, devotion, contemplation, connection, and transformation?
6. Healing, Growth, Psychology & Transformation
“How will this actually help me become more at peace with myself?”
We explore the transformative purpose of spiritual life. How might spirituality contribute to healing, psychological growth, inner integration, and greater peace?
7. How to Live: Ethics & Spiritual Morality
“How will this help me make positive changes and have more direction in my life?”
Spirituality ultimately becomes something we live. How should our beliefs shape our relationships, choices, values, responsibilities, and way of being in the world? What does it mean to live a good or spiritually meaningful life?
8. Bringing It Together: Spiritual History, Patterns & Possibilities
“I want to do this my way. How have people done it throughout history?”
We conclude by stepping back and looking at the patterns that have emerged throughout the eight weeks. How have different cultures and traditions approached spiritual life? What resonates with me? What do I want to carry forward? Participants have an opportunity to bring together their beliefs, values, practices, and intentions into a more coherent personal spiritual
Group Details
Format: 8 weekly group psychotherapy sessions, offered weekly
Duration: October 6 –November 26, 2026
Day: Tuesday or Thursday, depending on participant availability. There may be two groups, one each day depending on the number of participants
Time: 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Cost: $400 for the full 8 weeks. Group psychotherapy may be covered by extended health benefits, depending on your individual plan.
This group is intended for people who want to explore their spiritual and/or religious life in greater depth, clarify what they believe, and develop practices and perspectives that support greater psychological and spiritual integration.
