​Welcome to the Inner Journey, a ministry focused on helping people deepen their relationship to the Divine so they can be manifestations of God's Spirit in the world .  

After being in pastoral ministry in various forms for 30 years , I moved to full-time private practice as a spiritual  director, psychospiritual therapist and supervisor/educator beginning September, 2020.  

Clicking the symbol (three lines) at the top left of webpage shows you the pages within my website.   Each of these pages can be accessed directly below through clicking on the green text.    ​

• Spiritual Direction: Living from Your Divine Centre:   doorway to requesting spiritual direction.  
• Psychospiritual Therapy:   doorway to requesting psychospiritual therapy.
• Psychospiritual Supervision for CRPO:  doorway to requesting clinical supervision for your psychotherapy for the purposes of professional and personal growth.
• Blog:  The integration of insights from psychology, primarily through the lens of the Diamond Approach, a sacred psychology, with Christian spirituality and the Christian tradition. 

Synopsis of my career:

• Beginning (70%) role in Sept, 2020 as Spiritual Care Coordinator for Lasaard and Innisfree Hospice. This role, with other Spiritual Care Coordinators, is providing spiritual care for palliative care clients within the current Local Health Integrated Network (LHIN) of Waterloo and Wellington Region.  Gord will continue to provide spiritual direction and psychospiritual therapy as his time allows.   The hope is that his past Pastoral Counselling Educaton (PCE) training site for Canadian Association of Spiritual Care (CASC) based at Mannheim Mennonite Church will re-emerge within this new hospice context.  
• ongoing student of the Diamond Approach, a comprehensive sacred psychology, since 2006.  I am a student of Diamond Verité, a group of 50-60 people from various religous tradition that meets twice a year at Crief Hills Retreat Centre near Guelph. 
• Training in Emotional Focused Therapy (couple and individual) - May 2019 to April, 2020.    
• Certified as Supervisor-Educator by CASC, Jan, 2020
• CRPO supervisor since 2017 
•  Supervisor-Educator (provisional) with Canadian Association of Spiritual  Care (CASC) 2017-2019.  
• Registered Psychotherapist - College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) in 2016. 
• certified Psychospiritual Therapist since 2006
• trained Spiritual Director since 1998
• licensed Mennonite Christian Pastor since 1993, ordained in 1998.  Retired from pastoring in August, 2020.  
• part-time pastoral counsellor with Community Care of York Region 1997-2006