Catherine Clarenbach

I begin by offering my bio in brief. If you want the in-depth story of my journey with faith and love, from being bullied, living with bipolar illness, coming out, becoming a priestess, living in a convent, going to seminary for three years, getting ordained, and finally to living into a fuller version of my heart’s mission, that’s a little lower down.

I help people alienated from or ambivalent about religion find their own, authentic spirituality. Whether religious trauma, isolation, or alienation have been a part of your past or not, I am here for your work on your own path.

I am a white, fat, cis woman, a sovereign queer femme with well-managed mental illness and trauma from sexual assault. I am an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and an Initiate in the Tradition of Stone Circle Wicca (USA). I spent four years in discernment with an order of Roman Catholic religious sisters, and I am trained and credentialed as a spiritual director.

I also know that none of those things may tell you all of what you need or want to know about me.
If you want to have a fuller, more tangible sense of how I came to be the person I am, read on.