What is Marhaba?
At Marhaba, I offer trauma-informed spiritual direction to create a sacred and wide space to help you uncover your soul's yearning. Alongside offering Spiritual Direction, you can add Soul Companioning, and Somatic Integration sessions to help you on your journey toward fullness of life Spirit, Soul, and Body. I attempt to create a space of empathetic sight and holy discernment to help you connect to the compass of your soul which I believe is connected to its Creator. Our name is a bedouin greeting meaning "Welcome, I give you wide room and may the lord love you."
To learn more about my personal background and professional training, please visit the About Me page.
Let’s connect to see if I’m the right companion for your journey toward wholeness.
15 min
My Specializations:
In my spiritual direction practice, I find that the space I create tends to be most supportive for three kinds of individuals:
Spiritual Seekers – Those who feel a connection to the Divine—or long for one—but struggle to relate to traditional religious institutions, doctrines, or practices. Many are in a place of questioning, spiritual transition, or seeking a path of spiritual authenticity.
Those Seeking Healing from Religious or Spiritual Trauma – Individuals whose wounding is directly connected to spiritual or religious experiences, communities, or belief systems. This includes those recovering from harmful teachings, authority figures, or environments that distorted their image of the sacred and consequently themselves in relationship to It.
Those Navigating Intense or Distressing Spiritual Experiences – Individuals who suffer from profound spiritual affliction, including encounters with darker or more traumatic spiritual realities. This may involve deep isolation, confusion about what they’re experiencing, or feeling connected to but also cut off from traditional frameworks like the dark night of the soul. I support those who are seeking to discern what is demonic, what is divine, and what may be arising from the depths of the unconscious.
Spiritual Direction: creating space for the spirit to unfold your soul's longing.
Soul Companioning: accompanying your psyche (soul) to understand its becoming.
Somatic Integration: advising your body in containing the alignment of spirit and soul (psyche).
I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend,
and understood.
Then the knowing comes: I can open
to another life that’s wide and timeless.
So I am sometimes like a tree
rustling over a gravesite and making real the dream
of the one its living roots embrace: a dream
once lost among sorrows and songs."
- Rilke, Love Poems to God