Life Passages
Counseling Mentoring Wilderness Work
in person outdoors by internet
Counseling Mentoring Wilderness Work
in person outdoors by internet
The Nature of My Work
I offer a mix of traditional counseling, life coaching, and insights borne
from three decades of working with people with a serious illness.
Perhaps most uniquely, I do this with a rites-of-passage view and by
offering practices drawn from two decades working as a guide in the
desert.
What I offer is a kind of spiritual mentoring, as I support others who
are looking to deepen a relationship with both their inner nature
and outer Nature. I consider my primary task here to be tracking a
client's “soul story,” as that person opens more deeply to who they are
and how they want to show up in the world.
I offer a mix of traditional counseling, life coaching, and insights borne
from three decades of working with people with a serious illness.
Perhaps most uniquely, I do this with a rites-of-passage view and by
offering practices drawn from two decades working as a guide in the
desert.
What I offer is a kind of spiritual mentoring, as I support others who
are looking to deepen a relationship with both their inner nature
and outer Nature. I consider my primary task here to be tracking a
client's “soul story,” as that person opens more deeply to who they are
and how they want to show up in the world.
Frequency: Most often this work is done weekly or every other week. Meeting less often is possible, though that makes it harder to sustain a connection.
Fee: My hourly rate is $175 (American), though I offer a sliding scale down to $75 (American). I ask people to ask themselves: What can I afford? How much do I value this? And what amount will translate into a real commitment to this work? I leave it to you to set the final fee.
How to meet: I offer sessions in person, over the phone, or by Zoom – or some combination of the three.
Day walks: In addition to meeting 1-on-1, I encourage people, on occasion, to go out alone in nature with an agreed upon exercise. This is called a “day walk," the short form of a wilderness fast. This is an opportunity for a person to explore more deeply a theme that gets identified during one of our meetings. The story of that day walk is usually the starting point of our next session.
Wilderness programs: As above, I do this work with people before and/or after they do a longer wilderness program (whether that’s with me or with other guides). If you also are interested in combining this 1-on-1 work with a program I’m co-guiding, I do shorter programs through EarthWays, a collective of guides in Sonoma County, and longer programs with the School of Lost Borders, usually in the deserts of Eastern California.
Fee: My hourly rate is $175 (American), though I offer a sliding scale down to $75 (American). I ask people to ask themselves: What can I afford? How much do I value this? And what amount will translate into a real commitment to this work? I leave it to you to set the final fee.
How to meet: I offer sessions in person, over the phone, or by Zoom – or some combination of the three.
Day walks: In addition to meeting 1-on-1, I encourage people, on occasion, to go out alone in nature with an agreed upon exercise. This is called a “day walk," the short form of a wilderness fast. This is an opportunity for a person to explore more deeply a theme that gets identified during one of our meetings. The story of that day walk is usually the starting point of our next session.
Wilderness programs: As above, I do this work with people before and/or after they do a longer wilderness program (whether that’s with me or with other guides). If you also are interested in combining this 1-on-1 work with a program I’m co-guiding, I do shorter programs through EarthWays, a collective of guides in Sonoma County, and longer programs with the School of Lost Borders, usually in the deserts of Eastern California.
