Spiritual Counseling and Kabbalah


Rabbi Matthew Ponak

Spiritual counseling provides a reflective, supportive space to explore life’s deeper questions and challenges. Drawing on the teachings of Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, I offer sessions that can facilitate insight, healing, and a clearer sense of direction.

Spiritual Counseling is open to individuals of all spiritual or religious backgrounds who are seeking guidance, whether for personal growth, navigating life transitions, cultivating groundedness, or deepening their spiritual practice. In this post, I write more about what spiritual counseling looks like and how the wisdom of Kabbalah can help you on your journey.

What is Spiritual Counseling?

Spiritual counseling is a holistic approach to guidance that addresses the mind, body, heart, and soul. Unlike traditional therapy, which often focuses on psychological healing alone, spiritual counseling invites deeper questions about your life’s purpose, spiritual challenges, intuition, and how to integrate transcendent experiences into everyday living.

This type of counseling is designed to support individuals on their spiritual path, helping them discover wisdom within themselves and navigate life’s challenges with greater resilience and clarity. Whether you are feeling stuck, grappling with transition, or seeking spiritual direction, spiritual counseling can help you tap into your inner wellspring to guide you on the next leg of your journey.

Kabbalah: a Roadmap to the Soul

As a practitioner of Kabbalah, I incorporate its ancient teachings into spiritual counseling sessions. Kabbalah, a mystical branch of Judaism, offers insight into the nature of the soul, the universe, and the divine. Through its complex systems and practical approaches, Kabbalah sheds light upon the interconnectedness of our world and helps us understand our place in it.

One of the central concepts in Kabbalah is the Tree of Life, a map that represents different aspects of our existence—from our daily struggles to our highest spiritual potential. Utilizing the maps found in Kabbalah, you can learn to identify these subtle realms and find meaningful ways to embody balance, boundaries, wisdom, love, and other treasures that lie within.

Tree of Life from Kabbalah in a galactic/space background. Each Sephira has a different colour circle. Keter is white, Hokhmah is grey, Binah is pink, Hesed is blue, Gevurah is red, Tiferet is yellow, Netzah is purple, Hod is orange, Yesod is brown. Malkhut is rainbow. The colors of the Sephirot.

Why Work with a Spiritual Counselor?

You don’t need to be Jewish or follow any specific tradition to benefit from Kabbalistic spiritual counseling. My approach is open to people of any background. Spiritual counseling offers a space of deep listening, somatic [embodied] awareness, and teachings from Kabbalah along with perspectives from other world wisdom traditions. These modalities are utilized to help you to access and actualize your innate wisdom.

If you are navigating a life transition, seeking a deeper or more grounded connection to your spirituality, or simply needing a safe space to process, spiritual counseling can offer you support.

Hands holding a candle in welcome. Universal.

How Kabbalah Can Help You Heal and Grow

The beauty of Kabbalah is that it offers both mystical insight and practical guidance. I teach a type Embodied Kabbalah, which combines insights from somatic [body-centered] healing modalities such as Focusing with Jewish mysticism. These approaches can help you:

  • Listen to what your soul is trying to tell you
  • Transform emotional wounds through deeper understanding
  • Bring balance to different areas of your life
  • Gain clarity on complex life decisions
  • Deepen your relationship with the divine

Through our sessions, we will explore teachings and practices in a way that relates to your own situation. Spiritual discovery is a unique journey for each person. People who benefit from these sessions often describe more inner clarity, depth of relationship to their body’s wisdom, and capacity for accessing inner resources.

A path through the woods with low sun coming through the trees. Spiritual journey.

Book Your Free 20-Minute Consultation

If you’re curious about how spiritual counseling and Kabbalistic wisdom can benefit you, I invite you to book a free 20-minute consultation. In our time together, we’ll explore your needs, discuss how spiritual counseling works, and begin the process of creating a way forward that’s aligned with your path’s unfolding.