Resources

To learn more about yourself via the Enneagram, here are helpful links.

The Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI) and the Instinctual Variant Questionnaire (IVQ) are the most robust assessments using the Enneagram. You can find them here (RHETI) and here (IVQ).

For a symbolically richer, more integrated approach that embraces the tritype understanding of the Enneagram, I highly recommend Katherine Fauvre’s test, which you can access here.

Intimacy can be achieved through lectio divina for couples.

Lectio intima is my dream for helping couples develop intimacy. You can learn more about lectio intima in my article in Spirituality and Health magazine, Jan-Feb 2019. I would be delighted to schedule a retreat for you as a couple, or for your faith group.

For a scholarly introduction to lectio divina, the practice which I adapted for lectio intima, you can click here.

For more about Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP), there are excellent sources.

Dr. Elaine Aron has written several books (The Highly Sensitive Person, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love, The Highly Sensitive Parent, The Highly Sensitive Child), and her website can be found here.

This is a link to a simple self-test.

If you are recovering from religious trauma or spiritual abuse, please take heart. You are not alone.

My colleague Vanessa Londino, LPC, interviewed me for her podcast Substance, not Psychobabble. You can listen to that podcast here.

 For a longer treatment, here is a link to a conference presentation I gave for the Tennessee Association of Pastoral Therapists on the topic of Spiritual Abuse and Healing. (I’m working to isolate clips that may be most helpful, but here it is in its entirety.)

My first therapist, Dr James Finley, has made the deepest and longest-lasting impact on my heart, life, and work. You can learn more about him in his many books, in his podcasts Turning to the Mystics, or any of his several recordings with the Center for Action and Contemplation, of which this is an example.

Check back here occasionally – I’ll be adding more resources.

If you choose to work with me, these are some of my teachers. I draw on them in every session. I love to share the resources that help me, whether they are traditional psychodynamic/psychoanalytic, grounded in faith tradition, or practice energy healing and body work.

Let me walk with you on this road. 

Please call me at (615) 289-6546 to begin your journey.