Areas of experience and focus:
- supporting people in cultivating more balanced, sustainable, and joyful lives
-healing in grief and loss
-supporting anti-racist engagement: inquiry and transformational practices around social and cultural conditioning
-parenting issues
-impacts of addiction and other mental health issues on loved ones and families
--supporting care givers, particularly people developing in pastoral care
-addressing climate crisis and planetary anxiety
-utilizing trauma-informed approaches
-challenging a dualistic gender binary and hetero-centrality
Services
Pastoral Counseling and coaching sessions
Introductory session- 90 minutes
One-on-one weekly or biweekly session- 50 minutes
Deep dive series: when there’s a particular issue you want to focus on over time- for example, a life transition or a change in health or relationship status, we can dedicate 4 longer sessions with a particular focus- 4 X 90 minute session over 3 months
Consultation
One-one-one or with small groups- 50 or 90 minute sessions
some examples:
developing mediation, anti-racist, parenting programming in your community
grief care for groups and communities impacted by a common loss
bringing a Zen based approach into your workplace, personal or professional relationships
Ceremony and Ritual Creation and officiating
Ceremony and ritual development for life transitions: memorials/ celebrations of life, child entering your family, commitment ceremonies, rituals for loss and change tailored to you, your loved ones, and your beliefs.
Usually 4-5 X 90 minute preparatory sessions
Fees
Below are my standard fees, which serve as a guide.
If we decide working together is the right fit, we will talk together about what regular fee works for you given your current financial circumstances and the work we plan to do together.
50 Minute session- $175
90 Minute session- $250
Deep Dive series- $1000 for 4 X 90 Minute sessions
Ceremonies- We will decide together about the donation fees
In my experience, finding ways to talk together frankly and openly about money is a practice of liberation.
If some parameters are helpful, you can refer below to the Equitable Pricing assessment questions below (offered graciously by Kristin Miscall LCSW from her website “What’s True Now”) as a guide to determining where you fall in relation to the standard fees.
Equitable Pricing Model
Please reflect on the following questions:
1. Are you and your family homeowners or landowners?
2. Do you expect to inherit money or property?
3. Are you employed or do you own your own business?
4. Have you attended private education institutions, or do you have an advanced degree?
5. Are you able to make minimum payments on bills or credit cards without sacrificing money for food, shelter, or childcare?
6. Have you been able to access and afford health insurance for yourself and your family members?
7. Does your health care cover most of your medical needs?
8. Do you have out-of-network insurance reimbursement benefits and/or a health savings account?
9. Do you have low debt/or do you have disposable income?
10. Do you have a safety net comprised of financially stable or wealthy family and friends?
11. Do you live in a household supported by more than one income?
12. Does your income only support you and no other loved ones?
13. Are you a U.S. citizen?
To determine your range based on your answers today:
“YES” to 9 to 13 questions: $175 to $200
“YES” to 5 to 8 questions: $125 to $175
“YES: to 4 to 7 questions: $95 to $125
“YES” to 0 to 4 questions: $70 to $95
The above fee ranges are for 50-minute appointments.