Counseling & Spiritual Accompaniment
Counseling & Spiritual Direction
A quiet, confidential space to bring your prayer, your questions, and your life to God — walked with you through the Sacred Heart of Jesus and His Divine Mercy.
What Is Spiritual Direction
Someone to walk with you as you listen for God
Spiritual direction is a one-on-one relationship in which a trained director helps you notice how God is already present and active in your life — in prayer, in Scripture, in the ordinary and difficult moments alike. It is not therapy and it is not advice-giving. It is companionship in discernment, rooted in the Church’s long tradition of accompaniment, drawing especially on Ignatian discernment of spirits.
Sessions are unhurried and confidential. You bring what is real — a decision you’re weighing, a dryness in prayer, a wound you’re carrying, a longing you can’t quite name — and together we bring it before the Lord.
Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. St. Teresa of Ávila
Who it’s for
Anyone seeking to deepen their relationship with God — no matter where you are on the journey:
Those discerning a vocation, career change, or major decision
Those in a season of spiritual dryness or doubt
Those returning to the faith after time away
Those wanting a steady prayer companion and accountability
Those grieving, healing, or carrying a heavy burden
How We Meet
What spiritual direction includes
A Listening Presence
Sessions begin in silence and prayer. You are heard without judgment, and helped to notice where God has already been speaking.
Discernment of Spirits
Using the Ignatian tradition, we sort through consolation and desolation to recognize which movements draw you toward God and which pull you away.
Prayer Companionship
Guidance in Lectio Divina, contemplative prayer, the Rosary, Eucharistic Adoration, and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy — whatever form of prayer meets you where you are.
Sacramental Life
Encouragement toward regular Confession and the Eucharist as the source and summit of the spiritual life, at a pace that respects your journey.
Ongoing Accompaniment
Most directees meet monthly. Sessions can be in person, by phone, or by video call — whatever makes consistency possible for you.
Complete Confidentiality
What is shared in direction stays in direction. This is a safe, sacred space, offered on a sliding scale so cost is never a barrier.
For session lengths, scheduling, and the sliding-scale offering, visit the Spiritual Direction page.
A Message of Divine Mercy
Jesus, I Trust in You
At the heart of our counseling ministry is the message Christ gave to St. Faustina Kowalska in the twentieth century: no sin, no failure, and no distance from God is greater than His mercy. Whatever you carry into a session — shame, regret, doubt — is met first with mercy, not judgment.
The pale ray and the red ray flowing from the Heart of Jesus represent the water of Baptism that justifies souls, and the Blood that is the life of souls. Together, they are the mercy poured out for every person who comes seeking healing.
The Chaplet of Divine Mercy
Prayed on ordinary Rosary beads, especially at the 3 o’clock Hour of Mercy, the Chaplet repeats on each decade:
“Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.”
“For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.”
closing with, three times: “Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.”
Devotion to the Sacred Heart
The Heart that never stops loving
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a visible sign of the boundless, self-giving love Christ has for every person — a love that continues even when it is met with indifference. Devotion to the Sacred Heart, revealed through St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, invites us to return that love through prayer, the Eucharist, and reparation.
In counseling and spiritual direction, the Sacred Heart is where we return again and again — a steady, patient love that meets you exactly as you are and slowly reshapes the heart to love as He loves.
Living the devotion
Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in the home
First Friday devotions and Eucharistic Adoration
Consecration of oneself and one’s family to the Sacred Heart
Acts of reparation offered in prayer
A daily return to trust, no matter the day’s failures
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