Helping you navigate the space between your faith and your feelings.

 

I’m Rev. Shanay Scott Fontan, M.Div.—an ordained minister, spiritual counselor, retreat leader, wife, mother, and the founder of Sincere Sessions.

 

For more than a decade, I have walked alongside individuals, couples, families, and leaders during some of life’s most tender and transformative seasons. My experience in hospital chaplaincy, ministry, counseling, and spiritual formation has taught me how to hold space for both faith and emotional honesty—especially when the two feel difficult to reconcile.

 

I understand that the person sitting in front of me did not arrive in the present moment without a history. Childhood experiences, family dynamics, generational patterns, cultural realities, grief, relationships, and spiritual formation all influence how we understand ourselves and relate to others. My work helps people uncover those connections, care for the parts of themselves that still need healing, and develop healthier ways of living, loving, and responding.

 

My style is compassionate, discerning, honest, and practical. I create room for clients to feel seen and understood, while also offering the thoughtful questions, loving confrontation, spiritual insight, and practical tools necessary for meaningful growth. I am especially passionate about supporting high-capacity people who appear strong on the outside but feel exhausted, disconnected, stuck, or misunderstood internally.

 

Beyond my professional experience, I bring my full humanity into this work. I know what it means to carry responsibility, navigate changing relationships, wrestle honestly with faith, and continue becoming while caring for the people entrusted to you. I do not believe healing requires you to abandon your faith or ignore your feelings. I believe there is room to honor both.

 

My hope is that our work will help you understand what shaped you, heal what has wounded you, and intentionally choose what will shape you moving forward.