Find a Spiritual Director
Spiritual Direction Colorado is pleased to provide a list of Spiritual Directors as a resource to people throughout the state of Colorado and beyond. For more information pertaining to any of the Spiritual Directors, click on their name.
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Arvada
+ Claire Cassell
Claire Cassell, Clarity Spiritual Direction and Life Coaching, Arvada, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Lutheran (ELCA)
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Center for Spiritual Guidance, Minneapolis, MN, 1996
- Specialties -I have been a Spiritual Director for over 25 years and specialize in wellness for body, mind and spirit. I am also a Certified Life Coach. I teach and practice Qigong and am a Healing Touch and Reiki practitioner. I teach classes and lead workshops and retreats on meditation, prayer and a variety of other spiritual topics. I have a specialty in addictions work and I have served as a chaplain at several Chemical Dependency Centers including Hazelden in Minnesota.
- Other Information: I am an ordained pastor and am currently serving part-time as a chaplain at Lutheran Medical Center and West Pines Chemical Dependency and Mental Health Center in Wheat Ridge. I would be happy to walk with you on you spiritual journey. Feel free to contact me for a 30 minute complementary phone session to see if I am a good fit for you.
Contact information - 651.402.9949; ccassell123@gmail.com
Battlement Mesa
+ Stacey Atkins
Stacey Atkins, Battlement Mesa, Colorado
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Zeitgeist Spiritual Direction Training Program
- Spiritual Affiliation - Christian; open to other spiritual beliefs
- *Specialty - Those with serious illness and caregivers of those with serious illness
- Other Information - As a survivor of Leukemia and a caregiver for past cancer patients, Stacey is uniquely skilled to help those in similar situations. She is also able to work with those facing life transitions.
Contact Information - 469-408-0242; Stacey@SomethingDifferentMinisties.org
Website - www.StaceyAtkinsSpiritualDirector.com
Boulder
+ Eben Carsey
Eben Carsey, Boulder, Colorado
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Benet Hill Monastery
- Spiritual Affiliation - Christian
- Other Information - Retired pediatrician, volunteer with The Conversation Project promoting end of life values conversations.
Contact Information - 303-449-3041; ecarsey@comcast.net
+ Anne Knorr
Anne Knorr, Boulder, Colorado
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Center for Spirituality at Work, Denver
- Specialties include working with people of all faiths or no specific faith, primarily women and often those working in ministry or service. Anne has been a Spiritual Director, retreat facilitator and writer for 20 years.
Contact Information - 303-917-8539; anneknorr@comcast.net
+ Daphne Chellos
Daphne Chellos - Boulder, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Christian, Interspiritual
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - The Haden Institute
- Specialties - Dream work and embodied holistic perspective; spiritual direction for clergy and those in discernment for ordination; GLBTQ; those wounded by religion or spiritual teachers.
- Other Information - As a licensed psychotherapist, former massage therapist/educator, adjunct professor at Naropa University for 25 years, and with certification in Authentic Movement, my intention is to listen deeply to the wholeness of one's being.
Contact Information - 303-562-6568; daphnechellos@gmail.com
Colorado Springs
+ Margaret Arms
Margaret Arms, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Episcopalian
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Benedictine Spiritual Formation Program
- Specialties -include working with women; people in transitional phases in their spiritual journeys; working with spiritual issues of trauma survivors; supervision.
Contact information - 719.330.9114; margaretarms@gmail.com
Pamela Partrick, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Episcopal
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Sisters of Holy Nativity
- Business Name - The Center for Spiritual Direction of St. Michael's Episcopal Church
- Additional Information - I began my training in spiritual direction in the late 1970’s when I became a tertiary of the Episcopal order of Sisters of the Holy Nativity. I have used my training since the mid 1980’s, primarily in my holistic private practice, Healing Spirit Counseling, as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I retired two years ago from private practice, after deciding to focus on spiritual direction exclusively. I am now bringing this ministry to St. Michaels Episcopal Church in Colorado Springs, as the Director of The Center for Spiritual Direction, along with the other gifted spiritual directors in our parish.
Contact information - 719.660.9021; pamela@hscounseling.net
+ Victoria Tonski
Victoria Tonski, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Interfaith and non-denominational
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Journey Center Santa Rosa, CA
- Specialties - I specialize in working with the body as it reveals the places that call for our attention and seek healing through body, mind and spirit. This incorporates the work of Peter Levine and Somatic Experiencing.
- Additional Information - My orientation is to the divine in all forms in which spirit is leading us home to our true self.
Contact information - 303.810.9683; vtonski@gmail.com
+ Calvin Wulf
Calvin Wulf, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Contemplative Christian
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Fuller Theological Seminary, Colorado Springs, CO
- Specialties - Contemplative Spiritual Practices, prayer life, spiritual development, and discernment.
Contact information - 719.578.8837; calvin@mysfh.com
Conifer
Denver
+ Nancy Arko
Nancy Arko, Denver, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation: Christian Background; inter-spiritual
- Preparation: The Haden Institute
- Specialties: The Divine Feminine, Dream work and active imagination, Eldering and Threshold experiences and life transitions
- Additional Information: As a retired psychiatrist dedicated to the integration of mind, body and spirit, my intention is to listen deeply for the murmurings of soul.
Contact Information: (303) 596-0610; nancyjoarko@gmail.com
+ Scott Dewey
Scott Dewey, Denver, Colorado
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Restoring Connections (Center for Spirituality at Work), Denver CO USA
- Spiritual Affiliation - Jesus, interfaith, interspiritual
- Specialties: My directees are low-income and high-income, in their 20s and 70s, BIPOC and white, LGBTQIA+ and straight, progressive and conservative, devout in faith, abandoning faith, trying out faith.
- Additional Information - I help people from all walks of life tend the soul. +++ How? We quiet ourselves and listen to your life, where Spirit stirs. We’re tender fierce, and curious. We change. We explore practices for becoming deeply and freely human, embodied in Love. +++ I am a certified Spiritual Director for individuals and groups. +++ I grew up very rural and ended up very urban. Wild places speak to me. +++ I share life with those close to poverty and social activism. I like and follow Jesus, who stirred up good trouble. I’m LGBTQ+ affirming. I watch birds. +++ In-person, Zoom, outdoor. Sliding scale fees. Let’s start with a free consultation and see where it leads.
- Business - The Centering Way
- I am a Spiritual Director Supervisor. Program completed at Restoring Connections (Center for Spirituality at Work), Denver CO USA
Contact Information: (720) 261-9953; scottd@centeringway.org
Website: https://www.centeringway.org
+ Kelly Dignan
Kelly Dignan, Denver, Colorado
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Master of Divinity, certified in Spiritual Direction for Congregations by the Center for Congregational Spirituality, , trained transformational life coach .
- Spiritual Affiliation - Ordained Unitarian Universalist minister; spiritually fluid and fluent
- Specialities - I offer ancestral and intergenerational healing spiritual practices; companioning and chaplaincy for justice workers; nature connection; practices that allow you to receive guidance from the intangible, unseen world and the Divine presence that is all around you.
- Other Information - I offer sessions in person or by video (Zoom). In person sessions can be held outdoors for direct contact with nature.
Contact Information: (303) 257-5449; kgdignan@gmail.com
Website: https://www.kellydignan.com
+ Sue Gomez
Sue Gomez, Denver, Colorado
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Center for Spirituality at Work
- Spiritual Affiliation - Roman Catholic
- Specialities - Open to various populations; Have accompanied many marginalized people and young adults.
- Other Information - Have lived in intentional communities for fifteen years
Contact Information: (303) 968-6496; susan.gomez7@gmail.com
+ Jon Gottsegen
Jon Gottsegen, Denver, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation: Judaism.
- Preparation: Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal.
- Specialities: I am engaged in earth-based spiritual practices with my Jewish lineage and am particularly excited about letting Mother Nature be a guide. I have been involved in men's work for years and bring a spiritual companioning approach to men as well, although I will welcome all genders and gender-fluid people.
- Other Information: I enjoy group work and will work remotely or in person.
Contact Information: (303) 947-5164; jongottsegen@gmail.com
Website: www.earthyearning.com
+ Lynn W. Huber
Dr. Lynn W. Huber, Denver, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation: I am Episcopalian, but open to working with anyone who prays and wants to work on deepening their prayer life.
- Preparation: Many years ago from a 2 year program, now defunct, run by the Episcopal Diocese of TN called “Stillpoint”. I also have an MSW in Social Work and a PhD in Social Welfare, and much continuing education in such things as the MBTI, The Enneagram, etc.
- Specialities: I welcome people from all religious and other backgrounds.
- Other Information: I currently work mostly remotely and am open to meeting in person.
Contact Information: (303) 587-0288; Lotus.Spirit7@gmail.com
Website: https://www.earthyearning.com
+ Jennifer Kincheloe, PhD MPH
Jennifer Kincheloe, Denver, Colorado
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Bennet Hill
- Spiritual Affiliation - Spiritually eclectic, I have a loose Christian affiliation and heritage.
- Specialties include working with women. Healing from spiritual abuse. Working with marginalized and justice-involved populations, and people from all spiritual backgrounds and belief systems.
- Additional Information - I have a broad Christian background, rooted in a conservative Presbyterian community and Catholicism, and have settled into a liberal Episcopalian perspective. I incorporate teachings from many branches of Christianity and other religious traditions such as Sufiism, Judaism, and Buddhism. I am a mystic at heart.
Contact Information: (310) 266-7458; jennifer@jenniferkincheloe.com
+ Gary Ostwald
Gary Ostwald, Denver, Colorado
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Oasis Ministries'
- Spiritual Affiliation - Christian
- Specialties - Spiritual direction and coaching for leaders.
Contact Information: (720) 480-6890; gary@leadingincommunity.org
+ Rachel A. Parsons, MA
Rachel A. Parsons, MA, Fratres Dei Spiritual Direction, Denver, CO
- Spiritual Affiliation - Interspiritual with Episcopalian inclinations; Comfortable working with individuals of all backgrounds, including those who do not identify with any established spiritual tradition.
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Denver Seminary M. A. in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care
- Specialties - Spiritual Direction Supervision, Body-Spirit Integration, Discernment, Faith Crisis, Spiritual or Religious Doubt, Head-Heart Connection, Friendship / Intimacy with the Divine, Nonreligious Spiritual Growth, Occupational / Spiritual Caregiver Burnout, Imagination-Based Meditation, Interfaith Relationships, General Spiritual Growth or Refreshment, Ecstatic Dance, Spiritual Practice Exploration, Spiritual Maturity, Spiritual or Religious Transition / Deconstruction, Spiritual or Religious Trauma, Issues of Anger with God / Misotheism, LGBTQIA+ Issues (Affirming), Fellowship with Nature, Bodywork
Contact Information: (720) 534-9491; Rachel@fratresdei.com
Website: www.fratresdei.com
+ Bonnie Sarah Spencer
Bonnie Sarah Spencer, Denver, Colorado
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - General Theological Seminary
- Spiritual Affiliation - Episcopal
- Specialties include working with LGBTQ+ folks and a passion for racial justice
- Business - Chesed Life
Contact Information: (970) 420-7347; bonspen68@gmail.com
Fort Collins
+ Laurie Gudim
Laurie Gudim, Fort Collins, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation: Episcopalian
- Spiritual Direction Training Program: Benet Hill Benedictine Monastery
- Specialties: I work with all people, but especially marginalized populations and the lgbtq+ community. I serve people of every faith tradition or none, companioning them as they discover and explore their relationship with the Creative Source. I work with dreams and active imagination.
- Other Information: I am a retired psychotherapist profoundly committed to multi-faith work in the Fort Collins community. I am an artist, focusing on religious iconography.
Contact Information: 970-556-3111; roseanlaurie@gmail.com
Connie Shelley, Fort Collins, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation – Faith tradition: Anabaptist/Mennonite.
- Spiritual Direction Training Program: BA of Divinity; Restoring Connections, Denver, CO; Living School, Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, NM; Interspiritual Meditation, Spiritual Paths Institute.
- Specialties:
- Other Information: Available in person, online, or by telephone.
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Contact information: confshel@gmail.com
+ Yvonne B. Wootten
Yvonne Wootten, Perspective and Clarity, Fort Collins, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation – Faith tradition: Christian, student of Buddhism, honoring all faiths and beliefs.
- Spiritual Direction Training Program: Bread of Life - California
- Specialties: Working with all seekers; especially ‘nones’, those wounded by the church, those in life transitions
- Other Information: Spiritual Direction/Companioning is about exploring the spiritual self and the experiences in that exploration. Contemplative and compassionate listening used in spiritual direction will help discern and process what is stirring deep within. It is about helping to listen to and recognize inner wisdom, our true nature, or our connection to life, the Divine, our higher power – understanding purpose and processing challenges of life transitions.
- Web Site - www.perspectiveandclarity.org
Contact information - 970.294.5651; ybwootten@gmail.com
Golden
+ Sharon McCormick
Rev. Sharon McCormick, Golden, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Christian: retired United Methodist pastor
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Hesychia School for Spiritual Direction
- Specialties - Trained to companion persons of different faith traditions.
- Additional Information - I companion persons with the understanding that we are all spiritual beggars trying to help one another find food. My desire is to offer compassionate interfaith listening.
Contact Information - 303-726-0489; sharmac39@gmail.com
Grand Junction
+ Dr. Demetra "Dee" Jaquet
Dr. Demetra "Dee" Jaquet, Grand Junction, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Greek Orthodox Christian
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - St. Thomas Seminary, Denver; Pittsburgh Theological School; Holy Cross School of Theology, Brookline, MA
- Specialties -Working with Spiritual Directors, Pastors, Priests, Clergy, Religious, Seniors, and CPE/Spiritual Direction students.
- Additional Information - Retired Pastoral Psychotherapist, Retired Chaplain, Retired Religious Studies Adjunct Professor, specialization in Western/Eastern Christian dialogue
- Business - Rocky Mountain Center for Spiritual Caregivers
- Website - rockymountainCPE.org
Contact Information - 970-433-3324; deejaquet@aol.com
Highlands Ranch
+ Kelly Arora
Kelly Arora, Highlands Ranch, Colorado
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Masters & Doctoral degrees in spiritual direction
- Business - Talks With Spirit
- Spiritual Affiliation - Spiritually fluid (diverse background)
- Specialties - Shamanic healing, accessing Akashic Records, working with people who have chronic illnesses
- Other information - I work with people in person, by Zoom and on the phone.
- Website - https://www.talkswithspirit.com
Contact Information - 720-620-9001; talkswithspirit@gmail.com mailto:talkswithspirit@gmail.com
+ Sandy Grundy
Rev. Sandy Grundy, Westminster, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Episcopal Church: I have worked with people of all faith traditions.
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Center for Spirituality at Work
- Additional Information - My life experience includes being mobility challenged: using a wheelchair. I welcome meeting with people of all types of challenges.
Contact Information - 303.902.4664; [jssgrundy@comcast.net][1]
Lakewood
+ Vickie Bailey
Vickie Bailey, Lakewood, CO
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Spirituality at Work
- Specialties - Accepting all
- Spiritual Affiliation - Episcopal
Contact Information - 303-324-4680; vbaileydenver@gmail.com
+ Donna Contreraz-Wetherbee
Donna Contreraz-Wetherbee, Lakewood, CO
- Spiritual Affiliation - Episcopalian
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Benet Hill Spiritual Formation Program
- Specialties - I work with all faith traditions and consider myself to be a psycho-spiritual therapist (spiritual director + psychotherapist). I have a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology.
Contact Information - 720.290.4771; donnacw3@gmail.com www.bepsychospiritual.com
+ Paige LeBlanc
Paige LeBlanc, Lakewood, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - UU
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Benedictine Spiritual Formation Program
- Specialties include Spanish speaking; Training in Soul Collage and the Enneagram; Wisdom Healing Qigong Teacher/Healer
Contact Information - 303.432.3974; paigeleblanc@att.net
+ Christine (Chris) Sullivan
Christine (Chris) Sullivan
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Benedictine Spiritual Formation Program (BSFP)
- Spiritual Affiliation -Roman Catholic
- Specialities - women, Christians, Catholics, young adults, people in the midst of life transition, church/minitry and retreat groups
- Other Information - I have a particular expertise in assisting women in spiritual and emotional healing through the writing of their personal testimonies Website: livingthetruthinlove.org
Contact Information - 720-226-2264; chris@livingthetruthinlove.org
Littleton
+ Laura A. Thor, LCSW, LLC
Laura A. Thor, Littleton, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Interp-Spiritual (Jewish and Catholic)
- Training Program - LLev Shomea (Listening Heart, at Elat Chayyim, Ctr for Jewish Spirituality) I am also informally studying end-of-life ethics and death education through Catholic, Jewish, and other spiritual lenses.
- Specialities - Making peace with one’s life in our Elder years: Forgiveness of self, the Other, and God. Grief and anticipatory grief and loss in retirement, facing mortality with faith, hope, and love, and integrating personal shadow lovingly. Discerning how to face one’s dying in Colorado, where there are choices that pose spiritual challenges and invitations. I seem to have been called to be with people in the rocky places on the spiritual path. I am a retired pastoral therapist and clinical social worker. In spiritual companioning, we are learning to be with what is, even in despair, aiming for Hope of all things becoming new, beyond our understanding. There is no place where God is not. At times, Holy Spirit makes us laugh during our weeping. Singing happens. A big doofy dog might come and sit at your feet.
- Other Information - I am available to meet in person, by ZOOM, or by telephone.
Contact Information - 720-283-3933; laura.thor@hush.com
Website - www.laurathorcounseling.com
Longmont
+ Barbara J. Miller
Barbara J. Miller, Longmont, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Episcopal
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - BSFP graduate 2012
- Specialities - Inter spirituality
- Other Information - Benedictine Oblate, Wisdom Practice facilitator including Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina, Sufi, inter-spiritual
Contact Information - 303-588-4556; millertyme1033@gmail.com
Monument
+ Lauri Dennis
Lauri Dennis, Monument, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Christian
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Sustainable Faith
Contact Information - 719.229.9886; lauri@senselesspeace.org
Old Snowmass
+ Jennie K. Curtis
Jennie K, Curtis, Old Snowmass, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Inter faith
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Mercy Center - Burlingame CA.
- Specialities - Dream work, religious, centering prayer practitioners, formerly incarcerated
- Other Information - Retreat leader for Contemplative Outreach of Colorado-Snowmass
- I am a spiritual Director Supervisor and received my credentials at Lucy Abbot Tucker training in 2022.
Contact Information - 510.610.4614; jenniekc@aol.com
Salida
+ Christy Shain-Hendricks
Christy Shain-Hendricks, Salida, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Episcopal Church
- Occupation - Episcopal Priest
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Vincentian Spiritual Direction, St Thomas, Denver
- Specialties -Working with women of all ages
- Other Infomation - As one accompanying another in spiritual journeying and discovery, I am humbled by the beauty of soul and story in every body and carry each with respect, tenderness and compassion.
Contact Information - 970.485.4766; christy582@gmail.com
Thornton
+ Linda Blincow
Rev. Linda Blincow, Thornton, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Catholic
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Global Online Benedictine Spiritual Direction Program
Contact Information - 916.768.0289; linda.blincow@me.com
Westminster
+ Rev. Sandy Grundy
Rev. Sandy Grundy, Westminster, Colorado
- Spiritual Affiliation - Episcopal Church: I have worked with people of all faith traditions.
- Spiritual Direction Training Program - Center for Spirituality at Work
- Additional Information - My life experience includes being mobility challenged: using a wheelchair. I welcome meeting with people of all types of challenges.
Contact Information - 303.902.4664; jssgrundy@comcast.net