Spiritual Directors

Joyce Day
City: Winterville, NC
Languages: English
Email: reviday@gmail.com
Phone: (252) 347-3609

Lori Eichel
City:  Chapel Hill, NC
Languages:  English 
Affiliation:  Christian  
Email:  lorieichel@gmail.com 
Phone:  919-260-6296 
Focus Area:  Ignatian Focused Spiritual Direction 
Profile:  Trained through a four-year program with Fairfield University to companion people of all faiths in their journey to grow closer to the God of their understanding. Lori is trained in offering the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, Group Spiritual Direction and Eight Day Ignatian Guided Retreats.

Melody Harrel
City: Hillsborough, NC
Languages: English
Affiliation: Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Email:   mel@africaexchange.org
Website: https://www.tendingthesoul.space
Focus Area: Being awake to our own lives, Contemplative prayer practices, Being at crossroads and times of decision making, Enneagram, Growing in our lives in God.
Profile: I find companionship so valuable in our spiritual and life journeys. Life is too hard to go it alone. I seek to listen deeply and understand how God is speaking and present in our lives.

Patty Hanneman
City:  Durham, NC
Languages:  English
Affiliation:  Unitarian Universalism
Email:   pattyhanneman@gmail.com
Website: https://www.soulfuljourneycollective.com
Phone:  (919) 824-9343
Focus Area:  deepening soulful living
Profile: Certified as a spiritual director through the Haden Institute, with 12 years experience as a parish minister and 3 years as campus minister at Duke.

Becky Hambrick
City:  Cary, NC
Languages:  English 
Affiliation:  Presbyterian Church USA 
Email:  beckyhambricksd@gmail.com 
Phone:  919-219-5676 
Focus Areas:  Spiritual Direction, Dream Work, Enneagram, SoulCollage 
Profile:  As a certified Spiritual Director with advanced training in dreamwork, the Enneagram and SoulCollage®, I create sacred space for exploring and deepening your spiritual journey.

Sue Ann Jatko
City: Raleigh, NC
Languages: English
Email: jhsajatko@bellsouth.net
Phone: (919) 412-4284
Profile: Called to the ministry of spiritual direction as a way to serve the God of Light and Love by walking beside others in seeking a deeper relationship with the Divine Mystery

Rabbi Raachel Jurovics
City: Raleigh, NC
Languages:  English
Affiliation:  Jewish Renewal
Email:  raachelj@igc.org
Phone:  919-812-4930
Focus Areas:  Deep Ecumenism: more than 20 years of experience sitting with spiritual seekers, most of them Christian, most of them clergy. 
Profile:  I recently retired from my pulpit at Yavneh: A Jewish Renewal Community, which I founded in 2010, and am serving as Rabbi in Residence to the Episcopal Diocese of NC. My training was under the supervision of The Rev. Dr. James A. Devereux, SJ and Rabbi Dr. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the founder of the Jewish Renewal movement.  In more than two decades of practice, I have been honored to help shape the Spiritual Direction training program of the Jewish Renewal Seminary, and to share in the spiritual journeys of rabbinic students in that program as well as the journeys of predominantly Christian clergy and spiritual direction students.

Cynthia Neely
City:  Pittsboro, NC
Languages:  English 
Affiliation:  Roman Catholic
Email:  neelycynthia@gmail.com 
Phone:  606-923-0437 
Website:  https://stmchapelhill.org/people/cindy-neely 
Focus Areas:  Individual, Group Spiritual Direction and Retreat Direction in the Ignatian tradition.
Profile:  Cindy defines her spiritual direction practice as accompanying those seeking healing and integration of body, mind, and spirit in order to live from their authentic self the full gospel of their life. Cindy currently limits her practice to seekers desiring to pray The Ignatian Spiritual Exercises (19 th Annotation) in daily
life and those seeking a silent directed retreat in the Ignatian tradition.