Hi, I’m Jessica.

I'm a spiritual director from Wake Forest, NC. I married my high school sweetheart in 2010 and together my husband and I have four children - Eli, Grace, Everett, and Georgia.

I graduated from Portland Seminary in 2025 with a Master's degree in Spiritual Formation and I am certified in spiritual direction through the Sustainable Faith program.

I was raised in a non-religious household by parents from the Pacific Northwest, but began attending an evangelical church as a teenager with my husband's family. I was baptized there and began to build a firm faith foundation.

In roughly 2016, new motherhood, evolving beliefs, and a contentious political climate sent me into a crisis of faith. I began questioning the things I had been taught by the church, especially regarding social issues, global poverty, and evangelism. I began pulling at the first thread of my unexamined beliefs, and the entire tapestry started to unravel. I have since learned that the word "crisis" comes from a word in Greek that means “a turning point," and that's exactly what it was. I spent about four years sifting through my "God container" and chucking out everything that no longer fit.

It was this period that sent me running to a spiritual director that could help me find God in the midst of my deconstruction.

In the years that followed, I found home at a Mainline Methodist church and entered a seminary program where I learned that God was bigger, wider, and more inclusive than I could have ever imagined. I studied the mystics, read brilliant thinkers from all denominations, learned church history and modern trends, and dabbled in psychology, the Enneagram, and shadow work. I dug seriously into my own theologies regarding the LGTBQ community and became fully affirming of that group. I learned to read Scripture in entirely new ways, and I cultivated a rule of life for myself and my family that includes spiritual practices like intentional silence, Sabbath, and contemplative prayer - although the silence doesn't seem to be working for the kids! 🤪

There is a quote that says, "being listened to is so closed to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference." As a spiritual director, I operate out of the belief that deep listening - to you and the Divine - can truly transform your relationship to yourself, God, and others. I am here to help you examine your deepest beliefs, fears, and desires without judgement. Just presence, good questions, and a resource or two to help you take the next step.

I'm so happy you're here!