Journey and Heal
CHAPLAINCY &
ENERGY WORK
Hi, I’m Ross, ordained interfaith chaplain and lineaged energy healer.
What is Chaplaincy? Chaplaincy provides spiritual and emotional care, honoring and celebrating each person’s beliefs, values, and lived experience.
What is Energy Work? Energy work stirs what feels stagnant, restores balance, and reinvigorates being.
THE SESSIONS
Single Session $80
Sessions are 90 minutes and begin with a particular issue, question, transition, or area of life you would like to work with. We spend the first part of the session in conversation, clarifying what is happening and what kind of work may be most useful.
From there, we move into a practice chosen for the session. This may involve guided journeying and active imagination, energetic tracking and illumination, and soul retrieval. The particular approach emerges from our conversation, from what the issue seems to be asking for.
Session Packet $200
Three 90-minute sessions.
Over the course of three sessions we create a dedicated arc of healing modalities fluidly complementing one another. Insights from one approach may guide the next, while each session builds upon what has already emerged, allowing the work to deepen and develop around a single issue.
After the third session, we reassess what has changed, what may still need attention, and whether the work feels complete or points toward something new.
Ceremony $500
A three-hour ceremony created around a particular issue, transition, or rite of passage. .
Ceremony may be particularly useful for long-term struggles, persistent patterns, major life transitions, deep ancestral healing, entity removal, or marking a significant ending or beginning.
Ceremony requires doing at least one session.
Begin Your Journey
About Me
I was born and raised in Humboldt County. For much of my adult life, I worked in residential care, supporting adults with developmental disabilities and mental health challenges.
In 2018, I reached a turning point: I wanted my spiritual life and professional work to become more fully integrated. I attended the Chaplaincy Institute in Berkeley and was later ordained as an interfaith minister and chaplain. That same year, I began studying chaos magic from Gordon White through Runesoup. Most importantly, 2018 marked the birth of my son.
In 2019, I began working as a chaplain at Marin Medical Health Center and later served as a chaplain and bereavement coordinator with Continuum Hospice in Petaluma, CA. From 2022 to 2025, I worked as a behavioral health case manager with Humboldt County DHHS.
Not long after leaving DHHS, I trained under Gordon in The Medicine Rites, his teachings and initiations into shamanic energy healing.
Today, work with clients brings together the many threads of my life: caregiving, chaplaincy, bereavement support, behavioral health, magic, and energy healing. I have also helped open a reuse center in Arcata, CA, with a small group devoted to community building, barter and gift economies, and cultivating relationship with the more-than-human world.
“My first session with Ross was subtle yet profound. It began with guided meditation that ventured from the cerebral to the embodied in a restorative use of imagination. With his comfortable mindcraft and experience in community mental health, Ross is a healer for the healers.”
Brian N., Clinical Therapist
“I absolutely loved the dream journey work that I did with Ross. His presence, calm and nurturing guidance gave me the opportunity to go inward in such a profound way. This journey was unique, in a way where I felt I had access to a layer that is not usually accessible alone. His approach, education and interweaving of several modalities is something I have not experienced before. He is a gem in our community.“
Satya, Integration Specialist
“The sessions I’ve had with Ross have been gentle and transformative. From our first session, at a particular low point for me, he has met me exactly where I am. It’s easy to be open with him because there’s no sense of ego in the way at all. Ross has also picked up on subtle and still forming spirit relationships of mine with ease. I highly recommend working with him!”
SaraMarie B., Artist and visual technical communicator
APPROACHES AND TECHNIQUES
Traditional Chaplaincy
Primarily talk counseling. Clients can explore spiritual crossroads, discern practices tailored to individual needs, discuss grief and anticipatory bereavement support. Nothing is off the table.
Energy Healing
A hands off approach to examine, clean up, and illuminate a client’s subtle energy body and luminous field. This can include chakra clearing, chord cutting, entity removal, and counseling on energy hygiene practices.
Journeying
Using a combination of Jung’s activate imagination and traditional shamanic journeying, clients co-create scenes and stories that explore psyche, spiritual landscape, the endless fountain of creativity.
Soul Retrieval
A guided ceremonial practice for calling home and integrating aspects of the self that may have become lost or disconnected through trauma, painful childhood experiences, and ancestral burdens.
Ancestor Work
Developing relationships with ancestors through intentional practice, communication, and ritual. This can include constructing and maintaining ancestral altars, making offerings, learning family stories and traditions, and exploring ways our relationships with those who came before us continue to shape our lives.
Cartomancy
Using cards as a tool for divination, reflection, and exploring the questions we bring to a session. Tarot, Lenormand, and oracle cards can offer new perspectives, reveal patterns and possibilities, and create a symbolic language for engaging intuition, uncertainty, and the paths that may lie ahead.
FAQs
Do I need to do anything beforehand?
Choose something to work on. If online, be somewhere comfortable, undisturbed. Headphones with a mic improve the experience when at a distance.
Is chaplaincy religious?
Nope. Often defined as spiritual care in secular settings, chaplaincy is for all.
What’s the difference between guided visualization and journeying?
Jung’s active imagination and shamanic journeying invite spontaneous interaction with whatever arises, whereas guided visualization leads you through imagery and a destination chosen in advance by someone else.
Is there a sliding scale?
No. But there is a donation fund for people who cannot afford sessions. Use the contact form below for details.
What’s the cancellation policy?
Cancel within 24 hours and get money back. Repeated cancellations may result in non-refundable deposits.
How does energy healing work?
I don’t know.
Do you take insurance?
Working on it.
Can I buy a gift session?
Yes. Use the contact form below for details.
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