Reverend Susan Nason, One Spirit Interfaith Seminary graduate 2006, ISC graduate 2008 is the founder of The Parent Whisperer NY. She has a thriving global Spiritual Counseling Practice, specializing in parenting as a spiritual practice, where she helps her clients explore conscious parenting. Along with many psychological, fact-based, and healing modalities, Susan employs the concepts of restorative justice within a family situation, where the “crime” is often a child’s call for help, and a parent’s reaction is often just not knowing how to encourage or facilitate collaboration, self-control, repair, and making amends, rather than the more typical parenting solution of coercion, isolation, shaming, and punishment. Employing therapeutic and practical approaches to the challenges of raising children, Susan teaches concrete, compassionate and effective communication skills to parents and teachers of children of all ages. She helps parents hone their listening skills to create a harmonious atmosphere within their family and beyond. Susan brings her love and compassion of being a proud mother and ecstatic grandmother to her work with parents, teachers, and children.

Susan, in addition to her work with parents and teachers, officiates weddings, baby-namings, funerals, memorials, rites of passage ceremonies.

Susan is a contributing author of Onward and Upward: Guide For Getting Through New York Divorce & Family Law Issues.

Rev. Christopher J. Portelli (aka Rev. Chris) In 2022 Rev. Chris served as a Supervisor in the Interspiritual Companioning and Counseling program (ISCC) at the One Spirit Learning Alliance. He was ordained an interfaith and interspiritual minister by One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in 2016, and he completed the Interspiritual Counseling program (ISC) there in 2018. In 2019, he served as a Dean of the first-year seminary program at One Spirit. He performs weddings, baby blessings, house blessings, funerals, and memorial services, and offers individual and group spiritual counseling. Raised Roman Catholic, he studied and followed the spiritual teachings of Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day. Today he studies and practices Effortless Mindfulness with contemporary Buddhist scholar Loch Kelly. Rev. Chris lives with his husband, Dr. Wai Khoo, in Jersey City, NJ. He has been an attorney for over 30 years. In 2010, he founded the Economic Justice Clinic at the New York Legal Assistance Group which he directed for 10 years. The clinic trains law students in poverty law and allows them to provide free legal services to low income and homeless New Yorkers with attorney supervision. Rev. Chris earned his BA in Philosophy from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, his JD from New York Law School, and a Master of Philosophy in Public and Urban Policy at The New School. He has taught courses in law and public policy at Brooklyn Law School, St. John’s University School of Law, The Milano Graduate School (The New School) and New York Law School. His previous teaching experience includes interdisciplinary courses at New York University, St. Peter’s University (Jersey City), and American University (Washington, DC).