Kathy Tosney is an experienced Interfaith Spiritual Director and Retreat Director and offers both in-person and online Spiritual Direction and Retreats. Kathy taught Contemplative Prayer Practices or 10 years as a retreat team member for Mepkin Abbey’s “Institute for Contemplative Eldering Retreats”. She is also Mepkin Abbey’s Liaison for their Zip Code Contemplation Program & weekly Online Centering Prayer Sessions. She offers Ignatian Directed Retreats at Mepkin Abbey and Eastern Point Jesuit Retreat House in Gloucester, MA. Kathy offers over Zoom: a “6 Week Individual Ignatian Retreat” which is adapted from the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. She has a deep passion for teaching Contemplative Prayer Practices, Centering Prayer and introducing people to Ignatian Spirituality. She has spent several stays living with a group of Carmelite hermits in Ireland exploring the Carmelite and Christian Mystics. Kathy sees Spiritual Direction as a sacred privilege to accompany people who are seeking to explore their true self and  deepen their spiritual life and relationship with God. Kathy is very comfortable with all forms of spirituality.

Kathy is a compassionate deep listener having a long history of twenty years of Clinical Social Work and Hospice work. She brings a spiritual/psychological integrative approach to helping you explore your unique spiritual journey. She holds a Certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Spiritual Direction Internship Initiative in Boston, MA. and is a member of Spiritual Directors International and the Ignatian Spiritual Partnership of Maine. Kathy is also a trained facilitator for MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) through the Massachusetts Medical School. Kathy lives in Portland, Maine, where she is the proud mother of two adult sons and grandmother of four amazing young grandchildren.