About Lori

My work as a contemplative teacher, spiritual director, wedding officiant and ceremony guide is rooted in compassionate presence, deep listening and openness to the sacred in everyday life.

I create space for reflection, belonging, healing, connection and growth for people from a wide range of spiritual backgrounds, identities and life experiences.

Rooted In The Lowcountry

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I live and work in the South Carolina Lowcountry, where the rhythms of marsh, water, and tides continue to shape my understanding of presence, belonging, and transformation.

Rooted in the contemplative tradition, I serve as a wedding officiant, spiritual director, group facilitator and ceremony guide–accompanying individuals, couples, and families through meaningful moments of celebration, reflection, transition, and growth toward flourishing.

I believe transformation begins with paying attention.

My Approach

My approach is grounded in contemplative practice, compassionate presence, and deep listening rather than certainty. Together we make space for awareness, wonder, questions, grief, growth, and the ordinary sacredness of being human.

How I Accompany Others

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Wedding Officiant

Creating personalized ceremonies that honor your story, values, and commitments.

A man and a little girl walking hand in hand on a wooden boardwalk through a marshy area with dry tall grass and leafless trees.

Spiritual Director

Encouraging a listening relationship that helps you notice where life, meaning, and the sacred are unfolding.

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Discernment & Companioning

Offering compassionate presence for seasons of transition, discernment, healing, and growth

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Contemplative Practice

Nurturing practices of silence, awareness, and reflection that nurture presence, belonging.

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Explore Spiritual Direction

Come, Come, Whoever You Are

Come, come, whoever you are.

Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.

It doesn’t matter.

Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Come even if you have broken your vows a thousand times

Come, yet again, come, come.

–Rumi

Together we make room for reflection, belonging, healing, and becoming.