In this busy life, we don’t spend a lot of time listening to ourselves.
A Spiritual Guidance session is a place where you can do just that – listen to yourself. Together we create a container where you can be more attuned to your inner world, discovering your own truth and wisdom, discerning what aligns with your soul and what feels heavy and foreign, recognizing the ways you are being invited to heal and to grow, and learning to listen to your needs and to honor and tend to them.
Listening to ourselves is also a way of listening to the divine in us. In Spiritual Guidance we work on both of these relationships – the relationship to Self and to the divine Other – in tandem, sometimes more or less of one or the other, so that we weave our way back and forth between spiritual issues and more emotional/psychological ones, often doing some of the same work that might traditionally be done in psychotherapy but through a spiritual lens that has a sense of something beyond holding us, accompanying us, guiding us and healing us. This spiritual framework helps us to let go and surrender, not to work too hard, allowing the mystery of the natural healing process to unfold.
How we do the work – the process – is itself part of the growth, learning to be gentle and patient and compassionate with ourselves, to slow down and rest and play and love ourselves just as we are. Often much of the growth is in radical self acceptance, letting go of the agenda to “fix” ourselves and learning to allow ourselves be loved as we are by the One who already always does.
I would be honored to accompany you on this sacred journey. Please contact me if you would like to try a free initial session to see what it feels like.
My Background
I was trained and certified by an interfaith/interspiritual organization called the Spiritual Guidance Training Institute (SGTI). I welcome and have been trained to serve seekers from all backgrounds and traditions as well as those who are not affiliated with any formal faith tradition.
I have strong roots in Modern Orthodox Judaism, and have also pursued an interest in many other religious traditions, including Buddhism, contemplative Christianity, Sufism and Unitarian Universalism. I hold a BA from Princeton University in Religion and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Rabbinic Literature.
Spiritual guidance is a cross-disciplinary field. I bring tools and skills, education and experience from the following other modalities into my work as a Spiritual Guide: Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Focusing, mindfulness and Mindful Self Compassion (MSC), person centered therapy, Centering Prayer, Natural Processing (a somatic therapy) and Buddhist therapeutic approaches.
Sessions: I offer one hour sessions on zoom or in person. Frequency is flexible based on your needs, anywhere from once a week to once or month. Fees are on a sliding scale. Please contact me for the current range. An initial session to determine if this is the right fit for you is offered free of charge.
Contact: Please contact me at anisfeldr@gmail.com to set up a meeting if you would like to explore more.
