Suffering is not the end of your story. It is the place where love becomes most visible.

I'll help you unpack the burdens you are carrying.

Suffering has a way of advancing us spiritually, even when we feel stuck, or as though we are going backward. It can draw us toward union with God in a way we never would have chosen and never could have planned. When we are on the ground, stripped of certainty, crawling forward in the dark, we discover that we are not alone. There is a gathering there. A quiet communion of saints and souls who have also been stripped of the world, who understand without needing to explain.

“Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.” — John 12:24

We will find interior freedom and peace at the very center of what you are carrying. Within a Catholic understanding of the human person, suffering is not meaningless. It reveals something deeper about dignity, identity, and love. God is a God of complexity, and suffering is a way He meets us in our humanity.

Autem dolore, alias, numquam enim ab voluptate id quam harum ducimus cupiditate similique quisquam et deserunt.

Kate Swift, CM

Kate Swift, CM

the world needs a catholic standard of mental health

“Everyone, in fact, especially those who have heeded the divine call to follow Christ closely, needs to be accompanied personally by a guide reliable in doctrine and expert in the things of God”

~Pope Benedict XVI

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Integrated Mentorship

We know how God made you, why you're stuck, and how to get you unstuck

The mentorship model I provide allows me to walk with you in full view of your whole humanity- your body, mind, and SPIRIT. We are trained by the CatholicPsych Model to understand you through the lens of Faith, Reason, and Science. This is the ONLY way to really know you, and how to help you.

A Daily Model

Accompaniment modeled after Christ should meet you in the context of your daily life, just like He does.

We help you understand and experience the work of God in your life. And even if you struggle with, or don't even believe in God, we can help you to experience how Goodness, Truth, and Beauty are pursuing you in the context of your lived life. You don't have to compartmentalize your "self-care" away from the rest of your life - I'll be with you every day, to walk with you as you are making your way through whatever real challenges are presented to you.

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Covering all the bases

If you're having a human experience, I can help you

Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, or other typical mental health related issues, are looking for support and clarity in vocation-related struggles or discernment, are simply feeling burned out where you're at in life, or want to go deeper and reach further along your path to holiness and happiness, the Catholic model I practice from will help you.

What is the mentorship experience

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What are your qualifications? 

What I bring to accompaniment is the lived experience of chronic illness, and the tested conviction that suffering is not a detour from meaning. It is often where meaning breaks open.

There is a particular kind of suffering that does not announce itself dramatically. It settles in slowly, then persistently begins to reshape everything. Your sense of self, your plans, your relationship with your body, your understanding of God. That is the terrain of chronic illness. And it is the terrain I know from the inside

I know what it is like to want answers and receive silence. I know the ache of wanting relief and being forced to endure. I will not accompany you from the top, looking down. I will be there at the bottom, and I will see you looking across.

We will move slowly, uncovering your interiority together. The only expectation is that we keep choosing the next good step. One of the hidden graces of the bottom is that perfection loses its grip. There is no image left to maintain. And in that space, the spiritual life can deepen and expand in ways that feel almost exponential.

What exactly is Mentorship?

Mentorship (technically called Integrated Daily Dialogic Mentorship, or IDDM) is neither traditional counseling nor spiritual direction, but occupies a unique space in between those two fields. Mentorship is daily accompaniment, looking at you and your story as an integrated whole, examined at your pace, with the goal of finding happiness and holiness in your life.