Four People Who Might Be Exactly Who You've Been Looking For

I want to introduce you to some of my students.

They're in their second year of the Cherry Hill Seminary Spiritual Direction Certification Program, which means they've completed 170–200 hours of formation studying contemplative practice, multi-religious frameworks, justice-rooted practice, ethics, and the sacred art of deep listening. They've done their own inner work. They're receiving monthly supervision. And they're ready.

For April '26 to February '27, each of them is offering free, supervised spiritual companioning to a small number of seekers. Maybe one of them is exactly who you've been looking for.

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Scott Waterhouse carries this definition of spiritual direction close: "Accompanying another on their spiritual journey; witnessing, sharing, and collaboratively exploring another heart's relationship with The Sacred: with respect, integrity, and love."

What I want you to know about Scott is that he understands systems that grind people down, and the particular kind of spiritual injury that comes from navigating the justice system, whether you're incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, a family member watching someone you love disappear into that world, or a professional trying to do good inside a broken structure. He brings respect, integrity, and a witnessing presence to people the wider spiritual care world often overlooks.

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Cedar Monroe offers something rare: a space that truly holds all of it: your ancestry, your relationship with the land where you live, the sacred connections you carry from wherever you've come from, and the divine in whatever form (or formlessness) it takes for you.

Cedar is a particularly good match for religious professionals (ministers, chaplains, spiritual leaders) who are quietly losing their spiritual home because their identity as LGBTQ+ people isn't welcome or safe where they serve. Cedar is also a beautiful companion for immigrants and refugees navigating the profound spiritual dislocation of building a life in a new place while your soul still knows another landscape. Cedar's commitment is simple and deep: "I respect all spiritual paths, including those that are non-religious or undefined."

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Helena Domenic describes herself as an Artistic Mystic, and I think that tells you a lot. She understands that the sacred shows up in creative work, that art-making is a form of prayer, and that the creative process itself can be a site of profound spiritual inquiry.

Helena is a wonderful companion for artists, writers, makers, and anyone whose relationship with the sacred runs through image, story, craft, or beauty. She's also gifted with people who are navigating the spiritual questions of later life, finding meaning in aging, discovering who you are after the roles of career and able-bodied 'doing' have shifted, sitting with what it means to have a legacy and a remaining season. Her companioning is described as gentle guidance, not direction from above, but presence alongside.

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Mysti Downing calls herself a spiritual co-voyager, which is beautifully right. Her practice is rooted at the intersection of nature-based spirituality, theosophical wisdom, and the mysteries of consciousness, and she holds the door wide open for people who approach these questions from multiple angles: quantum physics, Jungian depth psychology, Pagan tradition, or plain old awe.

Mysti is a good fit for working professionals navigating a season of change: people who have studied, led, achieved, and now find themselves at the edge of something they can't think their way through, whether that change is externally imposed or internally unfolding. She's also a natural match for people living in red states, where your spiritual life may feel invisible or unsafe in the surrounding culture. She won't tell you where to go. She'll help you hear your own inner authority more clearly. Her work, she says, is "less about being led and more about exploration, navigation and interpreting the compass."

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Cedar, Helena, Mysti

All four of these companions are available now. You can read their full bios and book a get-to-know-you conversation, with two or three of them if you like, before you commit to anything.

👉 Meet Scott, Cedar, Helena, Mysti! and book a free exploratory session

Questions? Reach me at abeltaine@uuma.org

Beloved, you are whole, holy, and worthy. — Rev. Amy