Spiritual Care Practitioners

Malika Bouhdili (she/her/hers) is a spiritual counselor, interspiritual/interfaith chaplain, meditation instructor, and writer. Although personally rooted in the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and Vajrayana practice, she offers spiritual counseling in whatever language of meaning her clients speak, knowing we all use a unique poetry to connect with our truest selves. She has helped clients grappling with existential thresholds, directional indecision, grief/loss, aging, illness, feelings of meaninglessness, “burn-out,” relationship challenges, and trauma of varying kinds. Her approach is based on an abiding trust in the intrinsic wisdom of her clients and the possibility of healing and liberation in the middle of this earthly, embodied, relational, worldly life. Moreover, deeply informed by Jungian psychology and a feminine lens, Malika supports her clients in developing a healthy relationship with their unconscious contents and intuitive power. Clients can expect sessions to incorporate compassionate questioning, deep listening, emotional companionship, meaning-making, contemplative exercises, and support with dreamwork, meditation, subtle body awareness, mythopoetic symbolism, and ritual as appropriate. Above all, Malika is committed to working with others in the spirit of non-hierarchical companionship, relishing the reflective collaboration that helps clients discover their self-existing wholeness.

Malika holds a Master of Divinity as well as Master of Arts in Social Transformation from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. She also holds a Juris Doctor from American University in Washington, D.C.  In 2024, she earned a certificate in Jungian Studies from the Carl Jung Institute of Los Angeles. However, her main well-spring of inspiration and insight is her 16-year meditation practice, which is ever-developing, with the patient and compassionate guidance of her teachers and sangha.