Welcome, I give you wide room and may the lord love you.

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I’m so glad you’re here.

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My name is Barrie Bliss, and I am a trauma-informed spiritual director who hopes to walk alongside you with perceptive compassion, truthful care, and curious reverence for the mystery of your unique journey toward deeper connection to the divine and consequently your own soul.

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Though I am inter-religiously trained, attuned, and sensitive to a wide range of traditions and expressions of the sacred, my approach is grounded in a trauma-informed lens, shaped by my own background in the Christian tradition and influenced by Jungian depth psychology.​

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For much of my life, I’ve wrestled with the deep and difficult questions: How do we reconcile the reality of suffering with the existence of a loving God? Where do we find meaning and transcendence in a secular, often fragmented age? These questions have shaped my journey—not only through books and study, but through the lived terrain of my own story.

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My search has taken me through the fields of religion, philosophy, psychology, and trauma theory—not simply to find answers, but to learn how to ask better, more life-giving questions. For me, these inquiries are not merely intellectual—they are profoundly existential. And I’ve come to believe that most of them can only be answered, if at all, by living them.

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I am open to companioning people from all walks of life—whether you identify as religious, spiritual-but-not-religious, questioning, or simply longing for something deeper both within and beyond yourself.

 

I know for certain I do not have the answers you are looking for, but I may be able to point you within and toward the places where I’ve found bread—glimpses of grace, light, and life that have led me into deeper communion with the Divine, with myself, with others, and with the world. These have come not only through radical joy, but also through seasons of profound suffering.

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My own spiritual path spans over fifteen years and includes intense experiences of divine absence, as well as transformative encounters with Presence itself. I have survived and am healing from my own traumatic memory tangled up in religious trauma. I name this not to center me and my story, but to give you hope that healing, meaning, and deep connection with your own Self and others is possible. Love is possible.

 

While I will not share my story in session, please know that I am capable of holding suffering, complexity, and silence for as long as needed—and I also hold the reality that wholeness is not only possible, but real.

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I’ve spent six years in Freudian psychoanalysis and continue ongoing work with a Jungian psychologist. I believe we can only walk with others as far as we’ve been willing to go ourselves. My commitment to inner work is what allows me to accompany others with depth, presence, perception, and compassion.

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At the heart of my life is a question I return to daily:
How can I be both whole and holy?
It’s a question I’m still living into—

like all worthwhile questions, the answer must be lived. ​​

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