Our directors gather regularly to support and learn from one another.
Find a director who fits with you.
All our directors offer a free phone or in-person consultation to determine interest and compatibility. A typical spiritual direction rhythm is to meet monthly for one hour.
Kayla Allen
kaylaannallen@gmail.com www.kaylaannallen.com
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 tohelping 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.
Stacy Bartholomew
Would it help to have a trusted companion come alongside to help you pay attention to the voice of the Holy Spirit and notice the presence of God in your everyday life? Stacy is a thoughtful and attentive listener who delights to walk with people sensing God's invitation to more. Although she came to Spiritual Direction through a variety of roles, her favorite work is hospitality in home and heart. She is a recent graduate of Leadership Transformation's Selah Anglican Cohort. She has worked with those in and adjacent to various ministries, in grief or holding questions. Stacy has been married to a priest for over 35 years and understands the importance of a grace filled space. Offers virtual sessions.
Shannon Campanelli
I 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 my adult life, I have sought to follow the Lord, with a variety of deviations and distractions along the way. I recently retired from a satisfying career in the health profession, where I was called upon to assist others in finding pathways to physical health. I now have felt drawn to be involved with others who are seeking to grow in spiritual health. I have met with a spiritual director for the past four years and have experienced a deepening intimacy with the Lord, particularly in my prayer life. I am grateful that I can now offer this same graced hospitality to others.
Maren Hange
Shaped by experiences as a pastor, artist, and peace worker, I offer 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. I am 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.
Kellie Moy
I offer 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. My 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. I draw from the Christian contemplative tradition—Ignatian prayer (especially the Examen and imaginative contemplation). Scripture and simple embodied practices like breath and stillness anchor my approach. Above all, I believe God meets us as we are. My 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.
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 my heart to His very real and loving Presence. My prayer is that those whom I companion will likewise experience God’s Presence and Love. I received my training in spiritual direction through Leadership Transformations' Selah Program. Offers in-person and virtual sessions.
K. C. Verbrugge
*Also trained in leading people through the Ignatian Exercises (19th Annotation)
Several years ago, God in His goodness, led me to the 19th Annotation spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius, a nine-month prayer exercise where I discovered contemplative spirituality and practices that were part of the early church, which I did not know existed. As I experienced solitude, silence, lectio Divina, centering prayer, and spiritual rest, I came face-to-face with a God who loves me unconditionally just as I am—a God of grace, mercy, and compassion. I am a certified spiritual director, trained in St. Ignatian’s 19th Annotation, a wife and mother of four teens, and I desire to walk alongside others who are longing to go deeper in their relationship with God. Offers in-person and virtual sessions.
Laura Merricks
I love 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. My hope is that, through spiritual direction, you will experience God’s tangible love more deeply and become more fully and simply yourself. I received my spiritual direction training through LTI’s Selah Program. I am a wife of 35 years and mother of three grown children. Spiritual direction has made a space for me to be present to God’s work in my life through difficult as well as joyful seasons. Offers in-person and virtual sessions.