02 · Faith-Informed Therapy
Space for faith, doubt,
and the big questions.
Therapy that doesn't ask you to leave the spiritual dimensions of your life at the door. Whether you're practising, questioning, deconstructing, or somewhere in between, the whole of your inner life is welcome here.
What This Is
Faith as part of the conversation, not apart from it.
For many people, the spiritual life and the therapy life run on separate tracks. Faith-informed therapy is the work of letting those tracks intersect: honestly, without pressure, and without pretending the hard parts aren't hard.
What it isn't
This isn't spiritual direction. It isn't pastoral counselling. And it isn't an invitation to convert anyone to anything. The therapy is therapy: grounded in clinical training, CRPO-regulated, and held to the same ethical standards as any other psychotherapy in Ontario. The difference is that your faith, your doubt, your theology, and your questions of meaning are welcome in the room rather than set aside.
What it can be
For some clients, it's space to process a crisis of faith or a long season of deconstruction. For others, it's integrating spiritual practice into the work of recovery, grief, or discernment. For others still, it's looking honestly at the places where religion has wounded as well as healed. The shape of it depends on what you bring.
The tradition behind it
Pilgrim Therapy was founded out of the Ignatian tradition. Brook Stacey, the practice's founder, spent twelve years as a Jesuit with theology studies in Paris and Toronto before training in psychotherapy. The figure at the root of the work is St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose Spiritual Exercises and practice of slow, honest attention to interior movements shape how our therapists listen, ask questions, and understand the work.
Our team is most deeply versed in the Christian tradition, and most at home in Ignatian spirituality specifically. That said, we hold conversations across traditions and across lines of belief and unbelief. You don't need to share that background to benefit from the training it produced.
You can read each therapist's full story on the team page, including which traditions they're rooted in and where their training has taken them.
Who This Is For
You don't need to be "religious" to be here.
Clients of active faith
Catholics, Protestants, and Christians of any tradition who want their spiritual life to be legible inside the therapy room. Those navigating vocational discernment, scrupulosity, religious OCD, the interior life, or simply wanting a therapist who can think theologically when it's useful.
Clients who are deconstructing
Walking away from a church, or from a faith you once held. Grieving what you've lost while trying to hold on to what still seems true. Asking honest questions that didn't have space in the communities you came from.
Clients wounded by religion
Spiritual abuse, religious trauma, high-control group dynamics, shame-based theologies, or pastoral harm. The work here is not to defend religion; it's to help you reckon honestly with what happened and find your way forward.
Clients who are simply curious
You don't believe, or you don't know what you believe, but the questions of meaning, mortality, and purpose won't leave you alone. That counts as faith-informed work too.
At a Glance
The practical details.
- Session Length
- 60 minutes
- Format
- In-person or virtual
- Tradition
- Ignatian-rooted · open to all traditions
- First Step
- Free 15-minute consultation
- Coverage
- Most extended benefits (CRPO)
- Credentials
- CRPO-registered therapists
The First Step
Bring the whole of it.
Your faith, your doubt, your questions, your wounds. The first conversation is a free 15-minute consultation. Low-stakes, no obligation.