Radical Spiritual Care

Rabbi Elliot works with both individuals and organizations to provide Radical Spiritual Care through consultations and custom rituals.

He specializes in disenfranchised and suffocated forms of mourning, grief, and loss; in other words, grief that is not usually recognized by others, and sometimes even socially punished when it is expressed.

Some examples of this include:

  • mourning the loss of friendships

  • losing access to places in pandemic

  • mourning the loss of rights and freedoms to political repression

  • deepening disability

  • the death of queer family members that are not recognized

  • the death of strangers in genocide

…and many others.

  • Rabbi Elliot has limited openings to offer radical spiritual care on an individual basis for grief or loss. The goal of these sessions is to offer companionship, validate the true impact of loss, and offer spiritual tools for integrating grief.

    These sessions offer compassionate witnessing and may help clients (re)connect to the self, other people, nature, ancestors, and/or their own sense of the Divine, and ultimately feel more whole.

    Spiritual care is not therapy, and is not intended as a primary form of emotional support. Rabbi Elliot usually meets with clients one or two times a month, for as little as one session or as long as a decade. The average duration of a client relationship is about a year.

    Rabbi Elliot sees individual clients on Mondays and Wednesdays.

    His individual sliding scale fee is $150-$250.

    My client list is currently full, but please feel free to join my waiting list by filling in the form below.

    To apply for spiritual care now click here.

    Rabbi Elliot is also available for grief and loss rituals such as memorials, funerals, or custom loss rituals. These services are available in person in the San Francisco Bay Area and by zoom in other locations.

  • Rabbi Elliot Kukla is available on a limited basis to consult with organizations, congregations, and healthcare agencies on the intersections of spiritual care for grief, illness, and dying, with disability, gender, or climate justice. He is also able to offer collective rituals and/or bereavement spiritual support groups for organizations and communities.

    His organizational sliding scale is $250-$350 an hour. He has limited consultation availability below that scale for disabled and/or BIPOC-led organizations.

    Ready to coordinate? Please contact Rabbi Elliot.

Sadness | Ink on paper, 2019. Drawing by Elliot Kukla