CONSULTING· COACHING
Spiritual companioning holds safe nonjudgemental exploratory space for processing faith questions and the cultural disorientation together.
Rachel Woodroof
AMSTERDAM, NL
I'm a certified spiritual director through the Metagem Institute, registered with Spiritual Directors International. Before this work, I spent years as a refugee aid worker — experience that shapes how I think about displacement, both spiritual and geographic.
My work centers on religious trauma, high-control religious backgrounds, addiction, and spiritual abuse recovery. I'm a trained crisis counselor for LGBTQ+ youth, and this practice is explicitly open and affirming to LGBTQ+ people as well as anyone who has felt marginalized by faith community.
Based in Amsterdam, working with individuals across the Netherlands and internationally — in person or by video.
"You didn't just leave your faith home. You left a country."
For many people I companion, this isn't only a personal or theological unraveling. It's also a reckoning with what the tradition became — how evangelical institutions, over the last several decades, folded so tightly into a nationalist political project that the two are now hard to separate from the outside, and often just as hard to separate from the inside. If part of what you're carrying is grief, anger, or disorientation about that entanglement — not just doctrine, but what your faith community asked of you politically — that's welcome here too.
I'm not offering a political analysis, and I'm not offering a replacement ideology. I'm offering a place to sit with what that entanglement cost you, without either defending it or being handed a new set of correct beliefs to replace the old ones.
Spiritual Companioning
Not therapy. Not coaching. A quiet, present, non-directive accompaniment for seasons of inner transition — grief, questioning, vocation, faith, identity. No agenda, no programme. Just the practice of being genuinely present to what is and exploring deeper connection to our spirits outside of dogma and demand.
What is Spiritual Companioning?
Spiritual companioning comes from the ancient tradition many call spiritual direction — though "direction" undersells it. This isn't a program with a destination. My role is to listen without an agenda, to ask questions rather than hand you answers, and to help you keep your own story in view, especially the parts that are hardest to look at directly.
This isn't therapy. It isn't pastoral care tied to any church. It isn't affiliated with any humanist or religious institution. It's independent, one-to-one, in person in Amsterdam or by video.
All backgrounds are welcome, including no religious background at all. But if you're here because you left something evangelical, or high-control, or simply certain, and you're now sorting out what's true for you an ocean away from where it started — this is built for exactly that.
A NOTE ON SCOPE AND REFERRALS
If what you're carrying is more clinical than spiritual — active trauma symptoms, crisis, clinical depression — I'll help you find an English-speaking therapist in Amsterdam.
Rates
Spiritual companioning should be available to all.
Scaled pricing available upon request.
Private Session
€80
50 minute spiritual companionship session in person in Amsterdam, NL.
First session includes a free 30 minute exploratory session.
Virtual Session
€60
50 minute spiritual companionship session online.
First session includes a free 30 minute exploratory session.
Group Sessions
from €100
Group or Organizational spiritual accompaniment. 55 minutes. In person or online. For two or more.
First session includes a free 30 minute exploratory session.