Meet Our Directors
Walking with you as you walk with God
Affiliate directors are contacted directly for scheduling, fee structure, and payment arrangements,
and are open to negotiation based on financial need. To help in your discernment process we encourage you to schedule a free online or in-person introductory session with one of our directors.
* Kindly visit our legal disclosure and agreement page before choosing a director to work with.
Grace Cooper
In-Person: Grand Rapids, MI
Online: Zoom
Grace was introduced to spiritual direction during a particularly difficult season of life.
Through the gentle and consistent companionship of her first director, she was able to discover and name a longing for more of God that was simmering just below the surface.
As a spiritual director and a guide through the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius, Grace offers her directees a safe and generous space to reflect and process their unique journey with God while helping them discover and name their own deep longings for more.
Betsy Slate
In-Person: Oakland, CA
East San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Online: Zoom
Betsy Slate is a spiritual director and ordinary contemplative living in Oakland, CA. She compassionately walks alongside people as they come to know the loving God who created them and embrace their beloved identity. Betsy holds masters degrees in social work and theological studies and trained as a spiritual director and supervisor with Sustainable Faith, where she now teaches cohorts of spiritual directors. She is also trained to accompany people in the Ignatian Prayer Exercises. She loves to witness and nurture the practice of finding God in all things.
Teddi Pettee
In-Person: Roseville, CA
Online: Zoom
Teddi Pettee is a Spiritual Director, Ministry Leader, wife, and empty-nest mom. She is also a trained accompanist in Ignatian Prayer Exercises; guiding others through both the 18th and 19th Ignatian Annotations. Teddi has served
in para-church ministry with Youth for Christ for 28 years. Her experience includes training and supervising ministry leaders, creating content for relational ministries, speaking at youth camps and women’s retreats and facilitating reflective retreats.
Teddi lives in the Sacramento area of California with her husband Chris. She offers Spiritual Direction
both virtually and in person.
Are you a Spiritual Director?
If you are a trained and certified Spiritual Director interested in joining the community of Companions For Your Journey, we’d love to talk with you and explore the possibilities!
Jayne Price
In-Person: Mount Hermon, CA
Online: Zoom
Jayne has spent most of her adult life walking alongside others in Spiritual Friendship and providing Spiritual Direction. In 1995, she started the Reflective Retreat ministry at Mount Hermon Christian Conference Center where for 27 years women gathered 4 times a year in a sacred space to retreat from the busyness of life and listen to God. Jayne is a certificated Spiritual Director and Spiritual Direction Supervisor. She and her husband Rich minister to the community of Santa Cruz through their non-profit santacruzfellowship.com
Kira Shanti McFatridge
In-Person Only : Corona, CA
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I offer what I have received:
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a radiant face of genuine joy, eager to
journey with you
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a delightful awareness that God is not frantic, insecure, or hard to please
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a patience for the slow restoration of original glory
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a curiosity for mystery, surprise, and the holy in the ordinary
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a safe space for in-person Spiritual Direction Sessions & Individual Retreats
Kate Kim
In-Person: Tustin, CA
Online: Zoom
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Kate Kim understands firsthand what it means to wrestle with God through bitter disappointment and deep loss, and out of that journey feels called to accompany others through times of transition, grief, and discernment, as well as moments of clarity and joy. Trusting that God is already present and tenderly at work in every person’s story, she offers a gentle, prayerful space for reflection, silence, and shared prayer—an invitation to slow down, listen for the still, small voice of God, and rest in the truth that we are deeply loved and never alone.
Jessica Lee
In-Person: Tustin, CA
Online: Zoom
Jessica is a Spiritual Director for both adults and children. She first felt an invitation to spiritual direction during a hard and dry season of life. Through the safe and healing presence of God and her director, she was reassured of God's unconditional love and experienced clarity and restored hope. She considers it a joy and privilege to be a travel companion and listening friend to people of all ages! She invites others to rest, play, and listen to God's whispers of love right where they are.
Jessica received her training through Sustainable Faith and Companioning Center. She lives in Orange County, CA with her husband and two children, and in this noisy and fast-paced culture, she is learning to live a slower and quieter life.
Ezra June
In-Person: Columbia, SC
Online: Zoom
Ezra is a trauma-informed Spiritual Director, therapist in training, and queer mystic rebel. They love helping late-blooming people-pleasers tug at the roots of their belief systems, weed out religious shame, embrace their authentic self, and start over after 30.
As a nonbinary person who grew up amidst Purity Culture and church camp "cry nights," Ezra knows how deeply rooted shame & trauma can affect one's spiritual journey, sense of identity and purpose. They take a person-centered, trauma-informed approach and are 100% affirming.
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Rachel Wagner
In-Person: Roseville, CA
Online: Multiple Platforms
Rachel spent much of her life working to tame her inner chaos by trying to be good. Concurrently, like a seed underground, the truer work of God’s love was taking root and growing
into something far more interesting and beautiful than her own effort could accomplish.
Rachel fiercely longs for people to see how they are uniquely and beautifully made and takes joy in noticing with them the evidence of
God’s movement in their lives,
taking heart that none of us are abandoned or alone.
LorriAnn Lovett-Gill
In-Person: Davis, CA
Online: Multiple Platforms
LorriAnn delights in
being loved by God
and discovering what that means
in everyday life.
She loves to listen with others
for how God’s heart beats
and voice speaks -
to accompany them
in uncharted places
as they explore and find more
in their life with God.
She welcomes people from diverse
traditions, backgrounds, and cultures - each on their unique journeys.
LorriAnn is familiar with
disappointment beside hope;
disability as well as healing;
disorder amid uninhibited joy.
Chris Pettee
In-Person: Roseville, CA
Online: Zoom
Chris is a Spiritual Director
influenced by
Ignatian spirituality.
With 35 years’ experience serving
at-risk and foster youth,
he currently works as
program analyst with
CA Department of Social Services.
He was drawn to spiritual direction
while making a career change
and found this new pattern
of yielding to God
deeply transformational.
Chris is married with two grown children and lives in
the Greater Sacramento area
of California.
He enjoys creating sacred space
for others to explore their relationships with God.
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Curtis Campbell
Online: Multiple Platforms
A worship and discipleship pastor based in Green Bay, WI, Curtis became inquisitive about spiritual direction when questions about caring for the soul began to surface. Surprised by the gift of soul care, the profound value of silence, the usefulness of imagination, and the transformative effect of companioning with individuals and groups, he is delighted to notice God’s love for every soul and story. He completed his spiritual direction, Ignatian Exercises, and Supervisor training with Sustainable Faith.
Kelly McCargar
In-Person: Loomis, CA
Online: Multiple Platforms
Kelly was drawn to Spiritual Direction during a wilderness season of waiting on God. Through contemplative practices in training with Sustainable Faith, she discovered a greater sense of her true self and a deeper attachment to the One who made her. She shifted from knowing ABOUT God to experiencing an intimate life WITH God. Transformed by her encounters with the Trinity, Kelly desires to journey with others who also hunger for a felt sense of Immanuel-God with us. Whether meeting with individuals or speaking at women’s retreats, her heart is to co-create open spaces to hear the whispers of God as He plants seeds of hope, healing, and clarity in the lives of His beloved.
Sheri Williams
In-Person: Santa Cruz, CA
Online: Zoom
Sheri's delight has been to share life
with women through leading women’s Bible Studies and prayer groups.
Sheri was introduced to spiritual direction during a tremendously dark time in her life. Through the graceful and loving companionship of her director,
she began to discover a newness
in the deep love of God.
Spiritual direction and contemplative life have broken open the rule and
shame-based faith of her old life.
Sheri has a master's in counseling of education.
There is no greater joy than
companioning women on their journey to God’s amazing way.
Cheryl Gärlick
In-Person: Oakland, CA
Online: Zoom and Facetime
Cheryl is a Spiritual Director
for people of all ages.
Her trust is deepened by
God's faithfulness through seasons
of both joy and sorrow.
She is captivated
by God’s tenacious,
unending, creative pursuit of each person. Cheryl delights in discovering the unique ways God’s love is made known
to each of us.
She is a pastor, wife,
and mom to 4 young adult children.
She lives in an intentional community and is nourished by stories, wonder,
and time in nature.
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Bridget Black
In-Person: Orange County, CA
Online: Zoom
Hi! I’m Bridget,
an emotion-focused
and trauma-informed
Therapeutic Spiritual Director.
My earnest desire is to accompany and champion you on your journey of deeper knowing and connection with yourself and God- embracing and re-membering the fullness of your belovedness!
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I prayerfully and holistically
integrate and offer my psychological
and spiritual training, to help you heal and grow by exploring, processing, and connecting your personal story and inner life with the presence and movement of God in and around you.
(M.A. Spiritual Formation & Soul Care, Certified Spiritual Director)
Julianne Kowalski
In-Person: Corona, CA
Online: Google Hangouts
Julianne counts it a deep joy to walk beside others as they walk with Jesus.
She offers a safe and spacious presence that welcomes both the ache of questions and the beauty of becoming.
With a spirit that is curious, compassionate, and attentive, she holds sacred the slow and creative unfolding of the soul’s journey.
Alongside her work in spiritual direction, Julianne is also a professionally trained doula offering tender, grounded care to those navigating the sacred threshold of birth and new life. She especially loves companioning pregnant people, whether through spiritual direction, doula care, or the two gently woven together.
Laura Mastroianni
In-Person: Laurel, MD
Online: Zoom
Laura loves to ask, “What are you and God talking about these days?” as she helps women and children foster deeper intimacy with God through curiosity, active listening, discernment, and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's
active presence.
With a heart compelled by her own journey through abuse, grief, and compassion fatigue, Laura is passionate about encouraging others
facing similar challenges.
Laura has been married to her husband Rick for more than 40 years and has recently embraced the title of “Nonna” to a beautiful granddaughter.
Laura loves baking and having family
and friends gather around her table.
Jenn Gibillo
In-Person: Orange County, CA
Online: Zoom
Jenn Gibello is a Spiritual Director who feels most alive when outdoors
in the beauty and mystery
of wild spaces.
It is her desire to come alongside others
as they explore their spiritual journey, deepen their relationship with God and embrace their identity as deeply loved.
She is ISF informed through ISF Institute
and has lived experience
and knowledge of
12 Step spirituality and recovery.
She received her certification through
Christian Formation & Direction Ministries.
(CFDM)
She offers sessions in person
throughout Orange County, California,
and virtually.
Jenny Arnez
Online: Zoom
As a spiritual director,
Jenny is an "along-sider,"
providing a safe space
to explore questions,
heal from spiritual weariness,
and deepen connection with God.
With years in ministry, business, and experience with burnout,
she has a particular heart
for those feeling tired or disillusioned. Instead of answers,
she offers gentle, prayerful attention, coming alongside others
to notice the Spirit's movements.
Based in Sacramento,
Jenny trained with Sustainable Faith
and holds a Master's in Ministry from Hope International University.
Nicole Bateman Iwawaki
Online: Zoom
Nicole completed her training
with Sustainable Faith
and approaches Spiritual Direction
with an open and welcome posture.
Open hand and open heart.
Sitting with others as they journey with God in their ordinary everyday lives.
Nicole is a gatherer of people
and collector of beauty.
She lives in the East Bay
of the San Francisco Bay Area
with her husband,
a scruffy pup and mischievous cat.
Her two grown children
have left the nest.
Currently Nicole is enrolled
in the Renovare Institute
for Spiritual Formation.