Hi, I’m Amy!
I’m so delighted you’re here!
Offering spiritual direction to people who are seeking, questioning, hurting, or simply longing for something deeper feels very much like the work I was meant to do.
But I didn't arrive here by a straight path.
For many years, I practiced medicine. Then, at 32, my life changed profoundly when my 7-year-old son died.
I was devastated. I found myself wrestling not only with grief and loneliness, but with questions about my faith, my identity, and the Divine. I was angry. I was bewildered. And I cried out to a Higher Power I wasn't always sure I understood.
What happened over the years that followed changed me.
I found myself welcomed into several different communities where extraordinary people made room for all of me—my grief, my questions, my anger, my uncertainty, and eventually, my healing.
They didn't fix me or hand me easy answers. They stayed. They listened. They allowed me to be fully known and deeply loved.
A little more about me
I’m fun-loving, adventurous, and cherish a good laugh. I love meaningful conversations and big questions—including slightly unusual ones like, “What does it mean to age well?”
I adore animals. My life outside Nashville includes dogs, a horse, a donkey, sheep, cats, chickens, and all of the beauty, chaos, mud, and personality that comes with them.
I'm a Chicago native and still love all things Chicago—Giordano's pizza, the Bears, Cubs, White Sox, Bulls, Blackhawks, and Garrett Popcorn.
These days, when I'm not meeting with spiritual direction clients, you'll often find me parenting, caring for animals, gathering an eclectic assortment of friends around my table, traveling, reading, enjoying a fun cocktail—or taking a really good nap.
I take the spiritual life seriously. I just don't believe that means we have to take ourselves seriously all the time!
That experience profoundly shaped the way I understand spiritual companionship today.
I came to discover that the Divine isn't found only in what we believe or imagine. The sacred can be encountered in the very real circumstances of our lives—in grief and joy, love and loss, questions and uncertainty, beauty, relationship, laughter, and ordinary moments we might otherwise miss.
Eventually, my own journey led me to pursue formal training in spiritual formation and spiritual direction. I have six years of spiritual formation training and completed a two-year certificate program in spiritual direction in 2019.
My life continued to take unexpected turns. I became a foster parent and later an adoptive mother, experiences that have continued to teach me about love, attachment, loss, resilience, relationship, and what it means to accompany another human being without controlling their journey.
I bring all of those experiences into my work—not because your story will look like mine, but because I know something about what it is to have life change beneath your feet and to wonder:
Who am I now? What do I believe now? Where is the Divine in all of this? What comes next?