Phototherapy Mentoring

A devotional practice of seeing

Phototherapy mentoring is a slow, intentional journey where photography becomes a mirror — not just for what is visible, but for what lives beneath the surface.

This offering is for photographers, creatives, and mothers who feel called to work with image-making as a tool for self-inquiry, integration, and remembrance. It is not about perfect images. It is about learning how to see — yourself, your life, your relationships — with greater honesty and tenderness.

Through guided prompts, conversation, and reflective practices, we explore photography as a form of shadow work: using light, contrast, and presence to illuminate what is often overlooked, avoided, or hidden in plain sight.

Much like an ultrasound reveals what cannot be seen with the naked eye, phototherapy allows us to witness the subtle details of our inner world — the patterns, stories, and emotions shaping how we move through life.

What we explore

  • Shadow & light as psychological and photographic tools

  • Self-portraiture as a means of self-witnessing and reclamation

  • The way motherhood, identity, grief, creativity, and becoming live in the body

  • How contrast, stillness, and presence can quiet the “noise of light” and bring clarity

  • Photography as a ritual — not a performance

This mentorship gently invites you into deeper relationship with yourself, your camera, and the unseen layers of your life.

A client reflection

“When Sam and I were chatting, the first thing I thought of was an ultrasound — how that high-contrast image allows you to see what otherwise cannot be seen.

Working with shadow, photographically and psychologically, helped me see with more clarity — even illuminating what I couldn’t see before because of all the noise of ‘light’.

Through self-portraiture, I became aware of the ways I hold myself back, mirrored to me through motherhood. I feel like I am witnessing a daily ultrasound on my psyche. It is one of the greatest gifts.”

This mentoring is for you if…

  • You feel drawn to photography as a healing or reflective practice

  • You are navigating motherhood, identity shifts, grief, or creative transition

  • You want to deepen your relationship with shadow, truth, and embodiment

  • You crave a slower, more meaningful way of creating images

  • You sense that your camera holds more wisdom than you’ve been taught to access