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: Woodland, CA
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 director, Grace’s favorite thing is to create a safe and generous space for people 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 companions people as they discover the loving God who forms them and embrace who they are lovingly created to be. 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 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 McFatridge
In-Person: Corona, CA
Online: Zoom and Others
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As God is present to us, I as a Spiritual Director, endeavor to create still and sacred space into which both Director and Directee bring our authentic presence. Together, we practice the presence of God, co-listening, paying attention and acknowledging the mystery of "God with us", as we seek to discern God's leading, surrender to His will and rest in His love.
Kate Kim
In-Person: Tustin, CA
Online: Zoom
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Kate will always say that spiritual direction saved her faith! During a dark season of loss, she began meeting with a director and God opened her eyes to see how much He was with her and has been all along. The wholeness and freedom she gained led her to become a trained Spiritual Director and now she loves companioning with others, creating a safe space for them to wrestle, wonder, and process aloud, prayerfully looking for and seeking God together.
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.
Eliza Jane Lee
In-Person: Charleston, SC
Online: Zoom
Eliza Jane (she/they) is a certified spiritual director through Sustainable Faith and an RYT-500 Trauma Sensitive Yoga guide. Eliza approaches spiritual direction as a deeply affirming, brave space to deconstruct Christianity, release trauma, & explore your identity. She's informed by years of practice in yoga & mindfulness, trauma theory and contemplative Christianity.
With this wisdom, she works to deepen your connection with divine Love while journeying with you toward your true, authentic self. 100% LGBTQ-affirming.
All are welcome.
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Vanessa Coburn
In-Person: Sacramento, CA
Online: Zoom
Vanessa works in full-time local church ministry as an Ordained Minister and as a trained Spiritual Director. She is passionate about creating a safe, contemplative, Spirit-directed space for those at all points of their faith journey. Whether you have been walking with Jesus for a long time,
you are in a leadership role within ministry, new to faith, or wrestling with doubt; all experiences are sacred and hold value. Her commitment to those she sits with is to actively listen, pose helpful questions, and help to discern the voice of God in their lives through various practices of Contemplative Christian spirituality. Vanessa is also a Wife, Mother of 3, Sister, Friend,
and Artist.
Crystal Roseborough
In-Person: Lancaster, CA
Online: Zoom
From an early age, Crystal found incredible value in engaging in
meaningful conversation:
the space where hospitality meets the authentic, sacred work
of God in our lives.
She knows firsthand the freedom, transformation, and healing power
that comes when 'three are gathered'.
There's nothing better than two friends sharing God's presence
in a place of warmth and safety.
Crystal first experienced the beautiful gift of spiritual direction as she entered into a new season of life and was invited to train with Sustainable Faith School of Direction. It proved to be a divine appointment
filled with grace as she pondered all that 45 years of vocational ministry had held.
It is with a deep sense of honor that she offers companionship for your journey
into the sacred places that are your story.
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, Wisconsin,
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 both his spiritual direction and Ignatian Exercises training with Sustainable Faith.
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.
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.
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