As we pursue the flourishing of the people of God through reimagined relationships with God, ourselves, and others, there are times we need a personal companion to walk with us. To explore. To seek understanding. To create an opportunity to revisit and rework our stories. To be a brave partner with whom we can try new ways of engaging.
At Church Well Co we provide three distinct expressions of personal companionship on the brave journey of flourishing: Therapeutic Guidance, Professional Mentorship, and Spiritual Direction.
Individual Support
Therapeutic Guidance
Christian Counseling, the ChurchWellCo way.
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Therapeutic Guidance (TG) is our take on what is traditionally called Christian Counseling. It is a clinically informed, spiritually rooted, and pastorally guided experience through which we attend to the places of pain present in our lives, work through challenges in our relationships, and find the courage to step forward into new things and the integration of our whole selves.
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It is called Therapeutic Guidance because of the integrated nature of our approach It is:
Therapeutic in the way we pay attention to the pain in our lives and stories, integrate our experiences, and find meaning in our lives,
Pastoral in the way we attend to the presence of God past, present and future, and
Guidance in the way we are attentive to the opportunities for healing, growth, and forward movement.
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Guides: Our Therapeutic Guides are clinically trained Christian counselors with pastoral experience.
Available for: Therapeutic Guidance is available for both individuals and couples.
Cost: Ranges from $105-150/session depending on the Guide
Frequency: based upon need. Therapeutic Guidance is available as a stand-alone sessions (to navigate a specific issue), a 8-10 session series (to work through something more complicated), or in an ongoing manner as companionship on your path of life.
Disclaimer: While all of our Therapeutic Guides are educated and clinically trained as counselors, Therapeutic Pastoral Guidance is not therapy. It does not diagnose or treat mental health disorders nor is it appropriate for working through recent or active trauma. It is a process designed to facilitate emotional, relational, and spiritual healing through deep attentiveness, meaning making, and exploration of story and experience.
Professional Mentorship
There are times where we do not need a counselor, but we do need more than a friend.
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We may need a place where a specific part of ourselves can be engaged intentionally. Or we may need a space for our whole selves and full story to welcomed and seen so that we can make new meaning and to find the keys to unlock the doors before us. Professional Mentorship seeks to bridge that gap.
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Professional mentorship is designed to sit in a deeply relational context with intentionality and focus. Unlike therapy or spiritual direction, where the professional limits the use of themselves or their story, professional mentorship creates room for a type of exchange of relationship to the benefit of the mentee. Professional mentorship can focus on professional or personal areas, each of which create a different feel to the experience:
For some, professional mentorship focuses on specific spaces in life (marriage, ministry, friendship, etc.). This expression can feel more along the lines of coaching or professional consultation.
For others, professional mentorship is a relationship in which to share our stories intentionally and to process our experiences in the presence of care, wisdom, and attentiveness. This form will take the shape of what we more traditionally identify as mentorship.
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Mentors: Professional mentorship through Church Well Co is currently only being offered by BrianJames McMahon.
Cost: $150/session
Frequency: based on need and mentor’s availability
Disclaimer: Professional is not therapy. It does not diagnose or treat mental health disorders nor is it appropriate for working through recent or active trauma. It is mentorship relationship in which to engage personally or professionally for growth.
Spiritual Direction
“An interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.” - Richard Foster
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Spiritual Direction is a process rooted in relationship through which a trained spiritual guide listens to and companions someone who desires a deeper relationship with God. For those who identify as Christians, this means becoming more like Jesus. Richard Foster, a Christian theologian and author defined spiritual direction as “an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.”
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Spiritual direction is not counseling, friendship, mentoring, teaching nor discipling. It is the commitment to discover what God is doing in a person’s life and to help that person come closer to Christ.
Role of Spiritual Director: The spiritual director is trained to listen, discern and sometimes ask questions. The task of the spiritual director is to diligently pay attention to the person’s story and the Spirit, and to encourage spiritual growth.
Director Training: Each of our Directors is trained in the practices of spiritual direction in addition to their training and experience pastoring.
Cost: $50-120/session
Frequency: Typically monthly, though can be more frequent if needed
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Disclaimer: Professional is not therapy. It does not diagnose or treat mental health disorders nor is it appropriate for working through recent or active trauma. It is mentorship relationship in which to engage personally or professionally for growth.
Our Providers
Christian Counselors Providing Therapeutic Guidance
Rev. BrianJames McMahon, LMFT
Founder, Mentor, Therapeutic Guide
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BrianJames is licensed as both a pastor and a marriage and family therapist. He works with pastors, therapists, and entrepreneurs to find healing from pain, overcome barriers to connection, unlock potential, and grow into who they are becoming.
He up on the mission field in Southeast Asia and has spent significant seasons of his life in Seattle and Los Angeles where he pastored and church planted prior to relocating to Kansas City where he currently resides with his wife and children.
BrianJames is the founder of Church Well Co providing therapeutic guidance, consulting, and trainings for pastors, leaders, and organizations to develop cultures and environments that are emotionally and relationally safe(r) for their people. At his core he longs to see the Church vibrant and healthy. His experience growing up between cultures and in a variety of contexts has shaped his value of the unique expression of God found in each person.
He holds a BA from Seattle Pacific University in Holistic Education and an MS in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Cost: $175/session
Rev. Kalli Davis, BCCC
Therapeutic Guide
Board Certified Christian Counselor
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Kalli is an Associate Professional Clinical Counselor, holding a B.A. in Biblical Studies and an M.A. in Professional Counseling. She is also an ordained minister and currently serves as a co-lead pastor. She has pastored in multiple capacities in Oklahoma and Los Angeles. Holding a deep conviction that everyone is created in the image of God, inherently worthy and valuable, she understands each client to be the expert of their own story. Therefore, it is an immense privilege and passion of hers to witness and hold space for another.
Having my own difficult experiences with transition, religious trauma, addictive systems, and mental health I understand the complexity, isolation, and devastating impact of these events. While it can feel overwhelming, there is hope and an important story to be written. Through relationship healing, transformation, and purpose can be realized once again.
Cost: $120/session
Rev. Kevin Dolbee, BCCC
Therapeutic Guide
Board Certified Christian Counselor
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Kevin blends nearly thirty years of pastoral leadership with advanced clinical training to help individuals find healing, clarity, and forward movement. As both an ordained pastor and Board Certified Christian Counselor, he offers a space where your full story is seen, your pain is honored, and meaningful change is possible.
Kevin’s own journey began in Santa Fe Springs, CA, where as a high school student in the 1980s, he encountered the grace of Jesus that shaped his calling. After serving in the U.S. Navy, including during Operation Desert Storm, he went on to earn a Bachelor of Theology, a Master of Arts in Strategic Leadership, and a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
Since 1998, Kevin has served within the Foursquare Church as a youth pastor, church planter, senior pastor, and denominational leader, guiding churches and leaders through seasons of transition, renewal, and challenge.
In Therapeutic Guidance, Kevin integrates counseling insight, spiritual direction, and pastoral care to walk with individuals through complex seasons of emotional, relational, and spiritual struggle. He works with those navigating leadership burnout, personal pain, relational challenges, and spiritual questions that do not always have simple answers.
Kevin and his wife, Brenda, have been married for more than 35 years and have raised three adult children. A lifelong Raider fan, he understands well the lessons of patience, resilience, and enduring hope.
Cost: $105/session
Spiritual Directors
Rev. Craig Hinca
Spiritual Director
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Craig is a curator of space and relationship—that is what drew him to serve in the local church to provide space for others to gather and find relationship with Jesus and each other. He has over 25 years serving as a pastor and was able to do so in a full-time capacity.
He is ordained pastor and spiritual director whose focus to come alongside leaders, churches and organizations currently as a consultant.
Craig’s heart is to provide safe spaces for all leaders, but he holds a particular care for the leaders who are experiencing transitions, whether that is between roles or at the conclusion of a season of ministry and leadership.
Cost: $50/session
Rev. James Knight
Spiritual Director
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James Knight is an ordained pastor and a trained spiritual director. In both spaces, James seeks to be present with people in ways that fosters growing attentiveness and responsiveness to Jesus.
It was during a difficult season of unanticipated transition and confusion that James heard the Spirit say, “I did not call you to the tasks of ministry, I called to you myself!” While the roles in James’ life did not change, that invitation caused a deep heart shift in James as he began the journey of living into his identity as the Beloved of God. It is a life that desires to be lived out of God’s love, not one of striving for it. The gift of receiving spiritual direction has been a central component of this journey. It is a gift that James now delights in offering to others, especially fellow ministry leaders.
James holds a bachelor’s from Northpoint Bible College, an M.Div. from Ashland Theological Seminary, and a two-year certificate in Spiritual Direction from The PAX Center for Spiritual Formation. He lives in Millbury, MA. James currently co-pastors a church with his wife in the nearby town of Uxbridge. Together with their two boys they love hiking, traveling all over New England (and beyond) and connecting with their friends, family, and community.
Cost: $75/session
Rev. Cammie Wilson
Spiritual Director
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Cammie Wilson is an ordained pastor and pastor’s wife, as well as a certified and trained spiritual director, spiritual formation coach, and enneagram coach. She is the founder and operator of Cammie Wilson Coaching and Spiritual Direction, in North Carolina, where she has the privilege of living out her deep love and appreciation of partnering with others on their own unique journey to live an authentic and purposeful life of greater emotional and spiritual health, wholeness, and joy.
The greatest call on Cammie’s life is that of being a beloved child of God, wife, mother, “Lola”, and friend. She has been married and serving with her husband, Stan for 39+ years. A former “relationship avoider,” she now loves to listen, learn, encourage, and participate in great conversations, as she believes true connection is truly being in God’s presence.
Cost: $110/session