Hello and welcome…..I see you’ve found your way to my website! My name is Melissa Auten and I am a spiritual director and founder of Mosaic Heart Spiritual Direction. I live in Wake Forest, North Carolina “where the college used to be” as the locals like to say. Don’t come here looking for Wake Forest University. It moved to Winston Salem in 1956! But it’s fine if you come here looking for me- I’ll be happy to meet you.
I’ve been working as a spiritual director since 2015. My first career was as a health care provider (nurse) so I’ve always been one of those “helping types”. As I have gotten older I began to recognize that the real work I was meant to be doing is that of a “soul tender”. So- I completed a program in spiritual formation and began to dream of retiring from my day job and instead keeping busy with spiritual direction (as well as just generally being retired with the freedom to pretty much do as I please!) I love this work more than anything I have ever done. It gives me such great joy to be a part of someone’s unfolding and blossoming as a human being growing in the light of God’s great love. Even in the midst of darkness and suffering, there is always beauty just waiting to be unearthed.
You can read a bit about my own personal soul journey here if you are interested in more information (TMI perhaps) about me. Or you could just wander over to the contact me link and fill out the form. I’ll get back to you, I promise! I would love the opportunity to see if we are a good fit for working together. I’m available to see you in my tiny home office if you are in the greater Raleigh area (I’m not kidding- it’s tiny and my dog will try to squeeze in with us making it even tinier!) or I can also meet with you via Skype, Facetime, or Zoom if you happen to live elsewhere in the country, which several of my directees do. Thank you for stopping by, and hope to meet you soon. Namaste!
The sliding scale fee for my practice is $45-$95 per session. Methods of payment accepted include: Zelle, PayPal, Venmo, cash, or personal check. Payment should be submitted within 24 hours for each in person or distance format session.