Psychotherapy for Clergy & Seminarians
A religious vocation demands your attention to the most human parts of life. You hold grief. You proclaim hope. You wrestle with uncertainty.
This work inevitably brings you closer to yourself. You may find you are encountering pieces of your own history, patterns of being, or areas of pain that beg to be heard and held.
Psychotherapy is a place to tune in to what is “bubbling up” from the depths of who you are. It is a place to find rest and explore the parts of your life that you may feel you ordinary need to hold back.
Many clergy find that psychoanalytic or other depth-oriented therapies are a good fit because they prioritize the long, patient inquiry, and because they attend to the power of symbols and spirit in the psychic life. Spiritual formation is a lifelong process of becoming; depth-oriented work matches that pace, moving past surface-level self-care to look at the foundational history and desires that move you.