A Place for Story, Healing, and Contemplative Presence

Welcome. I’m glad you’re here.

This space exists as a gentle landing place: a place to pause, breathe, and reconnect with what is unfolding within you. Here, your story is honored. Your inner life is approached with care. And you are met with curiosity, compassion, and respect for the pace of your journey.

My work integrates trauma-sensitive and contemplative-evocative spiritual direction, faith-informed narrative therapy, and coaching, offering support for those seeking healing, clarity, and renewed direction. Together, we attend to your lived experience: mind, body, soul, and story, within a safe, grounded, and relational space.

My approach weaves together:

Re-storying:

Supporting you in making meaning of your experiences, loosening old narratives shaped by survival or loss, and allowing a truer, more life-giving story to emerge naturally.

Spiritual Direction:

Contemplative and evocative listening as you explore your relationship with God, within your inner life, your questions, and the ordinary rhythms of daily living.

Trauma-Informed Soul Care: Honoring how experience is held in the body and nervous system, cultivating safety, regulation, and compassion as foundations for healing and integration.

Psycho-Spiritual Insight:

Gently holding the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit, informed by interpersonal neurobiology. This approach honors your lived experience without labeling, and foremost supports awareness, integration, and compassionate self-reflection.

Creative & Contemplative Practices:

Using prayer, reflective writing, poetry, imagination, and silence to awaken insight, deepen awareness, and nourish the inner life.

Here, we slow down enough to listen:

to your story
to the wisdom of the body
to the quiet movements of the Spirit
to what is healing, emerging, and asking to be seen and heard

You are welcome exactly as you are ... no striving, no pretending, no rushing.

Come as a seeker.

Come with your spiritual wrestlings, heartaches or triumphs

Come longing for clarity, spaciousness, and renewal.

This is a place to begin again.

A sanctuary for the inner life.

A gentle starting point for whatever comes next.

In Honour of Austin's legacy

March 22, 1997 - July 15, 2016

Beloved Youth of Today

I carry a deep calling to walk alongside the next generation, especially those navigating the tender and uncertain transition into adulthood. This season is often marked by searching, identity formation, and vulnerability, and too many young adults move through it without enough support, care, or belonging.

Beloved Austin ... like a brother to our son and like a son to my husband and me, died during his first year of university, a time when he was finding his way in a new adult world. At his funeral, our son shared that he had always imagined giving Austin’s best-man speech one day, not a eulogy. His loss remains a sacred reminder of how deeply young adults need to feel seen, safe, and lovingly held during this formative season.

Austin’s life and memory continue to shape the ministry I carry. As a spiritual director and mental health nurse practitioner graduate (board licensing in 2026), I am committed to offering integrative, faith-informed bio-psych-social-spiritual care so emerging adults do not walk alone.

In many ways, this work is an offering in his honor—guided by love, remembrance, and hope for the flourishing of the next generation.

Name: heather mckay maddox
Address: US