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Spiritual Direction
Spiritual Direction is an ongoing relationship in which one person helps another recognize and nurture the presence of the sacred already at work in their lives. Our list of local spiritual directors (below) includes those who meet with directees on site at St. Martin's and those who operate from home.
List of Spiritual Directors
These area Spiritual Directors are currently taking new clients. St. Martin’s doesn’t formally endorse these practitioners, but offers their names for your consideration. We recommend that when making a decision about a spiritual director that you schedule a visit or two to determine if the fit is good and if their approach meets your needs.
If you are a Spiritual Director and would like to be included on this list, please contact the Parish Office: office@stmartinec.org
Directors who can see directees at Hilary House at St. Martin’s
Joanne Brewer Conway
As a licensed Psychologist and teacher of masters-level counselors, Joanne focused on helping individuals understand resistance to change and move through those resistances to a fuller life. In this work she grew over the years to understand the importance of spiritual grounding for a meaningful and hope-filled life. Following retirement from her psychology practice, Joanne received training from Oasis Ministries for Spiritual Development. She combines a contemplative approach with reflective listening as she companions others wishing to explore and deepen their spiritual lives. While grounded in a Christian perspective, Joanne welcomes opportunities to sit with individuals of all faiths and spiritual practices.
The Rev. Anne Ritchings
505-615-7189
Anne is an Episcopal priest with 30 plus years’ experience as a spiritual director, who has received training in spiritual direction from The General Theological Seminary and has a certificate from The Adelynrood School of Spiritual Direction. While rooted in the Benedictine and Celtic traditions of Christianity, she is familiar and comfortable with a variety of spiritual practices and traditions. Trained as a Dream Work Facilitator and a SoulCollage® Facilitator , her practice is Jungian-oriented, finding that exploring image and symbol are often fruitful ways of discerning what the Holy One has in mind for us. She has experience working with interfaith direction and has been a spiritual companion for a number of artists. clergy, and those seeking to discern their vocational path. She describes her practice as “compassionate listening where we work together to discern the Spirit’s movement in your life.”
Directors who work from their own homes/studios
Susan Cole (Mt. Airy)
215.242.0611 x2
(Note: Because Susan is a member of St. Martin’s she does not see St. Martin’s parishioners.)
Susan sees people from a variety of faith traditions, including a large number of Jews. She is a retired United Methodist pastor with a strong background in Ignatian spirituality (trained as a director in that tradition). Because it is important for a director to be compatible with a directee, she invites people to come spend a session at no charge, to get acquainted, with space for questions and concerns.
Nicholas Collura, MDiv
Nicholas works as an interfaith palliative care chaplain and is also a visiting retreat director at St. Raphaela Center in Philadelphia. He trained as a spiritual director at the Jesuit Collaborative in Boston and earned his MDiv at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry before spending three years of his life as a Jesuit on the West Coast. A student of film and literature, he brings a reverence for the creative imagination to his work with directees. He works often with spiritual seekers and those with a Catholic or Jesuit connection, but welcomes all directees regardless of life experience or religious background.
Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman
215.266.3647 | www.growingolder.net
Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman is a spiritual director, social innovator, chaplain, and scholar. She has trained rabbis and chaplains, accompanied frail elders, taught and guided individuals embarking upon their “third chapters.” Through Growing Older, her Philadelphia-based, national practice, Rabbi Dayle offers spiritual direction for people beyond midlife, spiritual care for individuals and families facing dementia and frailty, and consulting on medical decisions and end-of-life care.
Rabbi Malkah Binah Klein
215.510.2172
Malkah Binah is a compassionate spiritual director who offers deep listening and supports individuals in connecting with their inner wisdom and the flow of Divine Love. She intuitively and gently weaves into her work a variety of modalities for grounding and deepening the connection to Spirit, including qi gong, writing, drawing, sacred text study, and chant. Malkah Binah meets with directees in her home in West Mt. Airy and, if need be, is also willing to explore sessions in your home or Skype sessions.
Connie Lezenby
267.664.3721
Connie offers individual and small group spiritual direction at Gwynedd Friends Meeting or in Lansdale, PA. She works with seekers from many faith traditions or those beginning a spiritual journey. Through questions and silent reflection we will explore your unique relationship with God, spiritual practices that deepen intimacy and the freedom that flows in a life lived in the awareness of God’s love. Sliding scale fee.
Brandi Ou
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Brandi has been a mover since she was a child and has been a professional teacher and performer since 2002. In 2014, Brandi gave her life to Jesus in a time of grief and change. Movement has been essential to her faith expression and development over the years. This, combined with over a decade of teaching dance, led to the birth of her desire to support the spiritual lives of others through movement. After the pandemic-forced closure of her dance studio, a serious bicycle accident made it nearly impossible for Brandi to dance, to teach – to even sit or stand – without pain. Confronted by these major shifts, Brandi had a lot of time to reflect, pray, and listen to the spirit.
Amidst all these bodily changes, Brandi completed a Christ Centered Yoga teacher training in 2023. She now offers classes that are loving, judgment free, and full of grace for each person, regardless of body type or ability. She offers adaptations for those who are managing pain or in a healing process. She just finished a two-year training program for spiritual direction, where she has learned to become a spiritual companion to help others to attune to Jesus and walk on their faith journey. Brandi also offers breathwork, and contemplative prayer, all in service of ever finer attunement to Christ.
As a spiritual director/companion, Brandi will walk alongside the directee on a soul journey to acknowledge how Jesus has shaped your life over the years and where you see Jesus currently. We lean in with a posture of curiosity, with love, grace and without judgement. During our time together we may pray, read scripture, engage in imaginative prayer, sit in silence, journal, all while turning your heart toward the loving gaze of God, and what God might be doing in your life.