Spiritual Direction, Spiritual Care and Mentorship
Support for grief, illness, caregiving, spiritual growth, transitions and life's thresholds.
Life rarely arrives in neat categories.
Grief, illness, spiritual questions, caregiving, burnout, discernment, and major life changes often overlap. Whether you are seeking support for yourself, a loved one, or your work in the world, I offer compassionate accompaniment grounded in more than two decades of experience in spiritual care, healthcare chaplaincy, ritual leadership, and community support.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, I work with individuals locally and online.
Spiritual Direction
Spiritual direction is one of the oldest forms of spiritual care. For more than a thousand years, people have sought out trusted companions to help them listen for wisdom, attend to the movements of the spirit, and discern what is unfolding in their lives.
Grief, Illness and Caregiving Support
Illness and loss can change the landscape of a life.
As a board-certified chaplain, I have accompanied patients, families, caregivers, and healthcare professionals through serious illness, trauma, dying, bereavement, and recovery. Together we create space for the emotional, spiritual, and practical challenges that often arise during difficult seasons of life.
Threshold Work
Some experiences mark a crossing from one chapter of life into another.
A pilgrimage, retreat, ceremony, psychedelic experience, serious diagnosis, spiritual awakening, major transition, or the dying process may bring insight, uncertainty, challenge, grief, or profound change. These experiences often ask for preparation, reflection, and integration.
Threshold work offers accompaniment before, during, and after life's significant crossings.
Mentorship and Professional Development
Many people who care for others need a place where they can receive support themselves.
I provide mentorship and reflective support for chaplains, clergy, spiritual care practitioners, doulas, healers, ritualists, community leaders, students, and others engaged in the work of accompaniment and service.
Let’s work together
Click here to schedule a free care and ceremony consultation to learn more about the support that’s available for you in this time of transition, grief and growth.
A little about my approach
My work begins with the belief that people carry wisdom about their own lives. Sometimes that wisdom is easy to hear. Sometimes it is buried beneath grief, uncertainty, illness, transition or the noise of everyday life.
For more than 20 years, I have accompanied individuals, families, caregivers, clinicians and communities through some of life’s most meaningful and challenging experiences. Drawing from chaplaincy, contemplative practice, ancestral traditions, and community care, I offer space for reflection, discernment, meaning making and support.
I am less interested in offering answers than in helping people listen more deeply to themselves, their relationships, their values and the movements of their lives. Whether you are facing a difficult season, standing at a threshold, or seeking greater clarity and connection, our work together begins with curiosity, compassion and presence.
Testimony
“ In 2021, I was diagnosed with cancer. The time I spent in the hospital is mostly a blur—stitched together with shadows, fluorescent lights, and the distant murmur of machines. I have very few clear memories from that chapter. But there is one moment that remains etched in my spirit with absolute clarity.
I remember drifting in and out of consciousness and seeing Chaplain Devlyn sitting with my mother at my bedside. I couldn’t speak. I barely had the strength to turn my head. But I could see. I could feel. I watched as this chaplain sat in deep stillness with my mom—offering her a place to lay down her fear, to pray, to breathe, to not be alone in the unbearable.
In that moment, I realized that Devlyn wasn’t just caring for my mother. They were also holding me. Even as I lay silent, cracked open by illness, they treated me like a whole person—not just a patient. Their presence was soft and spacious, like a kind of wordless prayer. They didn’t need to say anything directly to me for me to feel the profound sacredness they brought into that room.
There was such tenderness in their care—something ancient and rooted, something that transcended the clinical world we were in. They embodied a kind of love that didn’t try to fix, didn’t rush, didn’t need to be named to be real.
In a time when everything felt out of control, Chaplain Devlyn gave me and my family something to hold onto. They reminded me that healing doesn’t always mean cure, and that presence can be its own medicine."
A note on this work
This work is rooted in spiritual care and spiritual direction. It is a space of listening, reflection, and accompaniment—not a form of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment. I do not diagnose, treat, or prescribe, and I do not administer substances. When clients are receiving medical care, including prescribed treatments, that care is held and managed by a licensed healthcare provider. Any herbal knowledge shared here is offered for educational and spiritual reflection, in honor of traditional plant wisdom and relationship.