Life is messy. Love makes life beautiful.

Storytelling, creativity & fun are at the heart of my practice & home. I am an experienced companion & attentive guide with you in seasons of joy & sorrow, sickness & health and anything along the way.

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Meet Kayla

Love brings us together. It’s an honor that you’d invite me to share in a small part of your story, as we begin here’s a little bit of mine.

Small town roots & big city experience.

The daughter of a roofer, raised by a single mother, she’s a first generation college graduate that left the comfort of the Midwest for a Washington DC adventure at 22.

Longing to live somewhere beautiful, her family made the move to Charlottesville in 2019, just in time to wait out the pandemic on a goat farm.

All are welcome, always.

She’s a gather of people and a collector of stories - usually around the table for tacos.

While she has a master’s degree in spiritual formation from an Evangelical Quaker seminary, her theological home is in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Love who you love.

As a survivor of postpartum depression and abuse, she’s experienced in the often too slow process of grief, healing and learning to hope again. Also, the medication is working.

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Rest, play & connect.

She’s a contemplative extrovert, who loves meeting new people and yet, has learned the gift of a simple and small life.

As a pastor, shepherdess and mother, she is tending and caring first to the light of love within, while also answering the door at 9am, 3pm and 6pm for kiddos asking for popsicles & play.

No one makes her giggle like, Greg, her husband of 16 years, and if you take her on a walk, she will talk about birds.

Spiritual but not religious.

Understanding that there more than a million ways to fall in love, so are there ways to live a meaningful life.

She’s a follower of Jesus, making space for curiosity, mystery & doubt. Hospitality is at the heart of her practice because it’s a gift to be welcomed & wanted.

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Family of four walking hand-in-hand through a park with fall foliage, mountains in the background, during late afternoon.