Email: erfenn6@gmail.com

Location: Komoka, ON

Method: Virtual

A graduate of Emmaus, Erin has embraced the idea that we are growing into the image of Christ for the sake of others. Walking through her own journey of discovery and continuing to deepen her relationship with God, Erin recognizes the great honour it is to protect a time and space for a Directee to draw closer to Him. Following the leading of Holy Spirit, Erin walks alongside you to gently allow for the wondering, wrestling and growing to occur. Erin welcomes an opportunity to create space to quiet yourself and learn to be still in order to better seek out the powerful presence of God in your life.

Email: onthejourney.life@gmail.com

Location: Markham, ON

Method: Virtual

Mike has been a Spiritual Director, after graduating from Emmaus in 2018. He graduated with a Master of Divinity in 2007, specializing in Youth & Family Ministry from Tyndale. He worked for more than a decade as the Executive Director for the anti-sex trafficking charity Fight4Freedom.

Mike is passionate about bringing together spirituality and social justice and journeying with others to discover their uniqueness, giftedness, and strengths. He loves to journey with others in real-life situations and listen together to what God is saying.

His wife and he have two little boys and a golden doodle together.

Email: karen@bethanycc.ca

Location: St. Catharines, ON

Method: Virtual

Karen is a graduate of the 3-year Spiritual Direction Certificate program at Emmaus. She believes that it is essential for Jesus-followers to tend to their spiritual, emotional and physical lives. As we do this, it has ripple effects in our families, neighbourhoods and world. Karen’s passion for social justice and for coming alongside others on their spiritual journey has led to a spirit-filled, non-judgemental approach to spiritual direction. If you are in a season of doubt, struggle, transition, ministry exhaustion or feeling like there must be more to life with God, Karen will provide a safe space for you.

Email: elena@holyinvitation.com

Location: Kitchener, ON

Method: Virtual

The whole of you matters. With deep listening and whole-person attentiveness honed through 20 years of spiritual direction—alongside clinical counselling, ministry leadership, and coaching—I provide a discerning space to be seen, heard, and to notice the presence of God in your life.

Committed to Christ-centred, redemptive principles of whole-person health and relational vibrancy, together we notice the holiness of everyday life, and receive God’s restorative presence and attunement. My approach is relational and grounded, shaped by a Christ-centred vision of each person as deeply known, loved, and called to participate with intention in our own lives and in the lives of others.

Email: listenlife7@gmail.com

Method: In-Person or Virtual

Nadine Gascho; MA in Spiritual Formation, certified spiritual director through Soul Stream, Canada.

As a spiritual companion, I count it a privilege to support you in your relationship with God. I offer you a safe space to share your story and explore the journey of your heart. With the focus on listening for how God is present, I look to the leading of the Holy Spirit (as the true Spiritual Director). Whether meeting in-person or through video conferencing, the session with you is an unhurried, contemplative space. As a missionary, myself, I am particularly drawn to and have much to offer cross-cultural workers and women in ministry (but am open to all).

Email: mjgauv@bell.net

Location: Mississauga, ON

Method: Virtual

Marc Gauvreau is one of our course instructors and has been with Emmaus since 2014. As a spiritual director who trained under Dr. Sandy Broadus, Marc brings a Spirit knitted blend of disarming companionship, attentiveness, and prayerful discernment to his practice.

Ordained with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada for over the 30 years, he has pastored in several congregations specializing in discipleship-based spiritual formation and small groups.

He is married to Karen, his truest friend and together they have 4 boys, the youngest being 9, who in Marc’s own words, “keeps me well-grounded and always ready for an adventure.”

Email: petergiokas@gmail.com

Location: Hamilton, ON

Method: In-Person or Virtual

Peter Giokas (MTS, MDiv.) trained and worked as a Child and Youth worker. He then worked at an inner city mission serving in a variety of leadership roles. Ordained with the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec, Peter later pastored a church in Hamilton. More recently he was on staff with the Greater Ontario House of Prayer (GOHOP) with which he is still actively involved as a Companion. Now working primarily as a spiritual director, he finds delight in seeing people recognize and respond to the Spirit as He draws them into deeper faith, greater freedom and experience of God’s love. Peter has three grown sons and one grandson, and loves being married to Sandy. He is a student of old and new monasticism, the Christian mystics and is a member of the Order of the Mustard Seed.

Email: michelle@innerascent.life

Method: In-Person or Virtual

Sometimes we find that we are better at doing for God than we are at being with God. Spiritual direction is a place where we can learn to slow down, listen deeply, and allow the love of Jesus to nourish our hearts.

I previously worked in church ministry and earned my MDiv in Spiritual Formation from Tyndale Seminary. It would be my privilege to be your companion to discovering God’s revelation of Himself to you. I have flexible appointment times online and some in-person availability.

Email: floyd@grunau.ca

Location: Calgary, AB

Method: Virtual

Floyd (BTh, MDiv, DMin) has found joy in serving as a spiritual director for men since 2006. He has ministered as a pastor and chaplain in Canada and as a cross-cultural worker/teacher in Indonesia, the Philippines and Toronto.

Floyd sees spiritual direction as an experience in Christian companionship guided by the Holy Spirit. It provides a safe, caring place for men who desire a spiritual friend to be with them on their soul journey with Jesus.

Floyd enjoys walking with his wife Joyce, reading, singing with his guitar in senior homes and to church senior groups, and sharing God’s love. He has 3 married sons and 13 grandchildren.

Email: kathy@kathygust.com

Location: Burlington, Ontario

Kathy lives in Burlington, Ontario with her husband and 4 children. She loves to come alongside people in spiritual direction and provide a welcoming space for them to explore and express their relationship with God. The intention of her spiritual direction practice is for people to grow in self awareness and God awareness so they can experience more freedom, faith, hope, and love. Kathy values family, friendship, authenticity, creativity, and learning. She likes to experiment with different creative expressions and loves all forms of skiing.

Email: kihodgson95@yahoo.com

Location: Ottawa, ON

Method: In-Person or Virtual

Kathryn graduated from Emmaus in 2022. She enjoys companioning with others as they search an listen for God in their lives. She is passionate about spiritual formation.

Kathryn lives in Ottawa with her husband Lawrence, 2 sons, 2 daughters, 2 sons-in-law, and 6 grandchildren. She loves travel, sports, pets and the outdoors.

Email: sandrahong@newlake.ca

Location: Guelph, ON

Method: In-Person or Virtual

During my own faith journey, I was introduced to Contemplative Prayer and Spiritual Direction which became transformative for me. The privilege of working with a Spiritual Director continues to be a life giving and life shaping gift.

I was Ordained in The Salvation Army and served in Pastoral Ministry with my husband for 26 years. We have two married daughters, 5 grandchildren and live in Guelph, Ontario. I am also a graduate of the Emmaus program.

I look forward to creating a safe, hospitable place where people can share their journey and experience the joy and mystery of being God’s Beloved.

Email: l.junkeran@gmail.com

Location: Calgary, AB

Method: Virtual

Because Lorna believes that God is active and present in daily life, her desire and joy is to walk alongside others, listening to their stories and together paying attention to His presence, His love and His activity in their everyday lives. It is her great joy to be a witness to God’s transforming work in their lives, growing in intimacy with Him and into the fullness of who He created them to be.

Her training in spiritual direction, in healing prayer, in loss and grief through her work as a palliative care physician, and in emotionally focused therapy assist her in journeying with others. She is also trained to walk with people through the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, lead workshops and retreats, and offers both individual and group spiritual direction.

Email: meeyun@gmail.com

Location: Toronto, ON

Method: Virtual

Mee (B.S.W., Dip.CS, M.Div., CSD, RSW) has experience working with all age groups in various settings, such as government, institution, community and church settings. Currently, she offers spiritual direction and counselling through her private practice and also serves as the education director and young adult pastor of a local church.

Her passion, shaped by our Trinitarian God, is to walk alongside people and to see them deepening their relationship with God in their ordinary, everyday lives. By attending to God’s loving presence, her desire is to offer a space where people can enter more deeply into the person of Christ and into their own uniqueness.

Email: malangmaid@gmail.com

Location: St. George, NB

Method: Virtual

Mary Anne Langmaid is a pastor with 25 years of ministry experience, now also serving as a Spiritual Director. She finds joy in journeying with people as they listen to God, embracing the truth that everyone can hear Him in their own unique way.

A passionate advocate for inclusion, Mary Anne believes all are welcome in God’s love. She is deeply inspired by the beauty of the outdoors, cherishes animals, and is dedicated to serving people of all ages. Her heart’s desire is for everyone to know Christ and discover their true identity in His unconditional love.

Email: 4lmlangman@gmail.com

Location: Cochrane, AB

Method: Virtual

Linda Langman (BEd, MA in Christian Ministries) is a graduate of the Emmaus Spiritual Direction program. She views Spiritual Direction as a ministry of spiritual companionship — as one who meets to walk withanother sojourner for a while. Her desire is to listen with ears attuned to the person she's with as well as to the true Director, the Holy Spirit, with the goal of paying attention together to God’s presence and communication in the midst of everyday life. Linda and her husband currently live in Cochrane, Alberta. They have three daughters and two sons-in-law.

www.lindalangman.ca

Email: christielatta@gmail.com

Location: Hamilton, ON

Method: Virtual

Christie Latta is a graduate of Sustainable Faith School of Spiritual Direction. She believes that God is present in everything - the good, the hard, and the ordinary. It is her greatest joy to accompany others in discovering where God is at work in those places.

Christie would be honoured to journey with you, looking for God “In the here, now, because the place where we are in our lives is the place where we find God. This is where God lives.” (Alice Fryling)

Email: deeplyrootedspiritualdirection@gmail.com

Location: Vancouver, BC

Method: In-Person or Virtual

As a Spiritual Director, trained through Emmaus, Shannon’s desire is to help you pay attention and respond to God’s invitations and activity in your life. Her approach is to pay attention to you and the Holy Spirit without agenda, to listen and linger with what resonates, to observe and offer questions and spiritual exercises as appropriate, to create space to hear from God directly, and to be a prayerful presence as you discern God’s transforming love, grace, truth, and leading in your life. Shannon lives in a suburb of Vancouver, BC with her husband and 2 children and she loves to read, walk, and kayak.

www.deeplyrootedspiritualdirection.com