About Me

Spiritual counselling and meditation teaching allow clients to overcome major life challenges such as loss, grief, anger, regret, shame, and confusion while increasing the amount of joy, love, and fulfilment in their lives. I also guide aspirants who are walking a spiritual path for its own sake, helping them establish and deepen personal spiritual practices.

I am a certified spiritual director with two master’s degrees from UBC and Georgetown University. My own spiritual journey has included extensive meditation practice as well as many other spiritual approaches such as prayer, visualization, shamanic journeying, ecstatic movement, archetypes, sacred geometry, and energy work. I currently teach weekly meditation classes at the Toronto Healing Arts Centre and lead Open Prayer Toronto a non-denominational prayer group in downtown Toronto. I founded and organized the Neshama circle for Jewish contemplative practice for three years.

Spiritual Counselling

Spiritual counselling helps you clarify and realize your personal ideals through practices that work powerfully within your own system of beliefs and values. I work with people of all religious, spiritual, or secular backgrounds who are seeking insight, growth, and transformation.

We will work together over one or more private sessions. Your first session begins with a dialogue about what your experience of religion and/or spirituality has been so far. We move on from understanding your past experience to articulating your present ideals. Then we work together to develop spiritual practices through which you can make your spiritual ideal a day-to-day lived reality. Finding a good match between an individual and a set of balanced spiritual practices is extremely important and is often overlooked by spiritual teachings that take a one-sized-fits-all approach. In addition to dialogue, sessions can involve meditation, guided imagery, and prayer/affirmation work.

Meditation Teaching

For information or to register for group meditation courses in Toronto please visit the courses page.

I offer clients a chance to establish a meditation practice that facilitates greater awareness, concentration, and psychosomatic integration. I give you clear meditation instructions you can actually follow based on your goals for your practice and my first-hand experience of what works. My approach to meditation is broad and pragmatic drawing on techniques from a number of traditions including Theravada Buddhism, Judaism, Yoga, Western Esotericism, Jungian psychology, and even some cognitive-behavioral psychology. Human consciousness is an enormous playground filled with cool stuff for those adventurous enough to explore it and the process of learning to meditate is fun, creative, and endlessly fascinating.