Our community of directors gathers regularly to support and learn from one another.
Find a director who fits with you.
All directors are trained, committed to their own ongoing spiritual direction and supervision, grounded in prayer, and attentive to the movement of the Spirit in the everyday lives of those they accompany. Each offers a free consultation to determine interest and compatibility. Spiritual direction typically follows a monthly rhythm of one hour sessions. Fees vary by director.
Kayla Allen
Kayla is passionate about creating space for people to experience love, connection, and belonging in Jesus’ presence. Shaped by her own seasons of loneliness and grief, she has a heart for working with hurting people. As a spiritual director, she is an attentive listener to the story unfolding in your life and is committed to helping you identify where God is working to make His love known. Kayla has a MA in Spiritual Formation from Portland Seminary and is a certified spiritual director. She is an experienced discipleship pastor, having served in Northern Virginia for over 15 years. While Kayla is now based in Charlottesville, she also offers direction over video and phone.
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Stacy Bartholomew
Would it help to have a trusted companion come alongside as you learn to listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit and notice God’s presence in your everyday life? Stacy is a thoughtful and attentive listener who delights in walking with others sensing God’s invitation to deeper life. She came to spiritual direction through a variety of roles, but her favorite expression of this work is practicing hospitality—in both home and heart. A graduate of Leadership Transformation’s Selah Anglican Cohort, Stacy has experience accompanying those serving in (and alongside) ministry, as well as those navigating grief or holding deep questions. With over 35 years of ministry experience, she understands the importance of creating a grace-filled, spacious environment for reflection and discernment. Offers in-person and virtual sessions __________________________________
Shannon Campanelli
Shannon grew up in Florida and, after graduating with a nursing degree, moved to Charlottesville, Virginia “to see what the North was like.” For much of her adult life, she has sought to follow the Lord, with a variety of deviations and distractions along the way. Shannon recently retired from a satisfying career in the health profession, where she was called upon to assist others in finding pathways to physical health. She now has felt drawn to be involved with others who are seeking to grow in spiritual health. Shannon has met with a spiritual director for the past four years and has experienced a deepening intimacy with the Lord, particularly in her prayer life. She is grateful that she can now offer this same graced hospitality to others. Offers in-person sessions and virtual sessions.
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Maren Hange
Shaped by experiences as a pastor, artist, and peace worker, Maren offers spiritual direction as a space to listen together for God’s presence in the beauty, pain, and mystery of life. Spiritual direction is about noticing God’s brushstrokes across our stories and cultivating the landscape of the soul. Maren is a graduate of Eastern Mennonite Seminary’s Spiritual Formation program and a member of Spiritual Directors International and the Mennonite Spiritual Directors Network. Offers in-person and virtual sessions.
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Susan Marks
What a privilege it is to enter sacred space to seek God on behalf of another! God has used the ministry of spiritual direction to tune Susan’s heart to His very real and loving Presence. Her prayer is that those whom she companions will likewise experience God’s Presence and Love. Susan received her training in spiritual direction through Leadership Transformations' Selah Program and her certification as an Immanuel Approach Practitioner from Immanuel Institute. Offers in-person and virtual sessions.
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Laura Merricks
Laura loves the unique gifts offered in spiritual direction: a safe, hospitable, and honest space where we pay attention to what God is doing in your life, and learn to listen to and participate in that work. Laura’s hope is that, through spiritual direction, you will experience God’s tangible love more deeply and become more fully and simply yourself. She received her spiritual direction training through Leadership Transformation Institute’s Selah Program. Spiritual direction has made a space for Laura to be present to God’s work in her life through difficult as well as joyful seasons. Offers in-person and virtual sessions.
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Kellie Moy
Kellie offers spiritual direction as a quiet, welcoming place to pay attention to God. Rather than quick advice or problem-solving, direction is a prayerful conversation that listens beneath the surface for desire, grief, resistance, and hope—the places where the Spirit is already moving. Kellie’s formation includes a Master of Arts in Spiritual Formation and a Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Portland Seminary, along with supervised practice and ongoing continuing education. She draws from the Christian contemplative tradition—Ignatian prayer (especially the Examen and imaginative contemplation). Scripture and simple embodied practices like breath and stillness anchor her approach. Above all, Kellie believes God meets us as we are. Her role is to hold a spacious, non-anxious place where you can speak freely, listen deeply, and notice the subtle gifts of grace already present in your story. Offers in-person and virtual sessions.
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K. C. Verbrugge
Several years ago, God in His goodness, led K.C. to the 19th Annotation spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius, a nine-month prayer exercise where she discovered contemplative spirituality and practices that were part of the early church, which she did not know existed. As K.C. experienced solitude, silence, lectio Divina, centering prayer, and spiritual rest, she came face-to-face with a God who loves her unconditionally just as she is—a God of grace, mercy, and compassion. K.C. is a certified spiritual director, trained in St. Ignatian’s 19th Annotation, a wife and mother of four teens, and desires to walk alongside others who are longing to go deeper in their relationship with God. Offers in-person and virtual sessions.
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