Safe Harbor is a safe place to explore your spirituality, especially if you have experienced any kind of trauma or abuse. It is often not recognized that trauma affects how we relate to God, the church, and other people. Our services offer 50- minute sessions over Zoom ($80 per session). This is not spiritual direction per se (for those who understand that term), but spiritual counseling for the wounded and broken.

DO YOU RELATE TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING?

  • Have you been hurt, wounded, or abused in the past and your intution tells you that it has affected your relationship with God?

  • Have you been hurt by a religious leader you trusted and aren’t quite sure how to process it?

  • Were you told that you cannot be who you are and follow God simultaneously? 

  • Has scripture been used as a weapon to threaten your sense that you are loved by God?

  • Is there a spiritual teaching that has a hook in you that you are really ready to get rid of?

  • Do you have a secret that you’ve worked hard to keep from your faith community?

  • Would you like a pastor, but don’t have one? Or the one you have doesn’t feel safe or helpful?

  • Maybe it’s been a while…and you’re not sure where to start…or even if you want to go there again?

A yes to any of these is a yes to painful, complicated stuff that is really hard to work through alone.

I genuinely want to help you. Professional counselors are sometimes inadequate in the area of spirituality. If they are secular, they may not understand the Christian faith or its value to you. If they are a “Christian counselor” this can often mean a very narrow theological perspective, where sin, not grace, is the main interpretive lens.

Spiritual Care is a form of “pastoral” counseling from someone with theological expertise and compassion to help you sort through spiritual wounding. Trauma affects the brain and the “body keeps the score.” Why wouldn’t we expect it to also touch our spirituality?

I believe that God has created you for a life that thrives. Spiritual companionship is a way to journey toward that kind of life.

Safe Harbor Spiritual Care is a professional session-based service. Sessions are 50 minutes long.

$80 per session. If you book four sessions at once, you will receive a 10% discount. (I do not accept insurance, but am glad to provide invoices if you insurance pays for pastoral counseling.)

Diane Leclerc, Ph.D is a spiritual counselor who offers the unique combination of expertise in theology and the skills of spiritual care and counseling. She has been an ordained minister for 32 years and a theology professor for 26 years. She has taught classes in the area of the integration of psychology and theology, and has written books and articles about the intersection of abuse and spirituality.

Find here:

  • safety to explore

  • patience with doubts and fears

  • embrace of brokenness and woundedness

  • unconditional acceptance

  • a non-anxious presence

  • opportunity for deconstruction or reconstruction