Kasey Hitt, MDiv

Co-founder, Director, Instructor

Kasey (she/her) brings more than 20 years of experience as a spiritual director to Wisdom Tree Collective.

Prior to moving to Mt. Juliet (near Nashville, TN) in 2008, Kasey spent five years in Washington State where she earned a Master of Divinity and Certificate in Spiritual Direction at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. She grew up in Ohio and was a youth pastor in the United Methodist Church for five years in Missouri before heading to the Seattle area.

Her way of spiritual direction can be described as offering hospitality to the soul by being present and listening to the whole of one's life—daytime, nighttime, body, mind, spirit, and relationships. She utilizes a variety of ancient and present-day tools to help her directees. These include lectio divina, dreamwork, breathwork, IFS (parts work), imaginative & guided prayer, and relaxation.

Kasey's own story of becoming a spiritual director began with mental, physical, and relational burnout as a youth pastor, so she is especially passionate about a healthy, authentic spirituality.

In addition to spiritual direction, Kasey also offers retreats, classes, supervision for spiritual directors, and is a Level III Reiki therapist. Thanks to directees asking to be trained by her over the years, she has developed and is offering a two-year Wisdom-based online program to train spiritual directors, which began fall 2021.

Kasey resides with her husband, Russ, daughter, Lainey, and son, Alex. She enjoys a cup of tea, reading, juggling, baking, taking art lessons, a walk through the woods, and quiet mornings with her Russian Blue cat, Birdie, on her lap.

Amy Steele

Interim Board Chair

Amy E. Steele, Ph.D., is a spiritual director, social ethicist, and ordained minister. With each encounter, she witnesses the presence of the Holy, prompting, clarifying, and healing the remote corners of personal thought and action. 

Bill Campbell

Mentor, Instructor, Board Member

Bill’s love of nature began in childhood when his mother kicked him and his brothers out of the house so she could get some peace and quiet. Since then, he’s explored the fields and woods just beyond their backyard, hiked trails across the United States and Europe as a Boy Scout, as a campus minister leading students, and as a solo hiker. Water also competes for his attention, through canoeing, fishing, teaching swimming lessons, standing watch as a lifeguard, scuba diving, and swimming on a college swim team.

As a seven on the Enneagram, adventure pulls Bill out to travel in location and mind. Sometimes, he carries a camera and engages in contemplative photography. Some of his best times are walks in the woods with his grandchildren.

After attending Tennessee Tech University as an engineering major, Bill transferred to Lambuth University and graduated with a degree in social work in 1974. Moving to Dallas, Texas, Bill attended Southern Methodist University and received a Master of Theology in 1978. He also worked on a Doctor of Ministry at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. Bill is also a spiritual director, having completed the training program at Southern Methodist University in 2015. In 2023 he received a certificate as a forest therapy guide. 

In 1979, Bill was ordained as an Elder in the United Methodist Church. He served churches in Oklahoma, Texas, and Tennessee. For almost 30 years, Bill was the United Methodist Campus Minister at Middle Tennessee State University.   

The focus of Bill’s spiritual direction practice involves hiking, forest bathing, and contemplation of nature. Too often we are disconnected from nature. This dislocation allows us to treat the earth as a resource for our exclusive benefit. We have ignored our profound interdependence on all other life-forms, and the earth’s vulnerability. Bill seeks to be a careful listener to the trees as well as his directees.

Jess Hansen

Mentor, Instructor, Board Member

Jess (she/them) believes spirituality is foundational to every human. If you find yourself in a place where the religious institution/church doesn’t quite fit or is uncomfortable or even painful, Jess wants to hear your story.

“We all have our own flavor of spirituality that is begging to be embraced,” says Jess. “Befriending your own misfit spirituality is a liberating homecoming.”

Jess provides companionship and guidance on finding your way home to yourself, reimagining your faith, and experiencing freedom and healing in embracing your own spiritual misfit-ness.

Abby Buter Oakhart

Board Member

Abby is passionate about walking alongside people as they ask spiritual questions, unpack their stories, and come home to themselves. She is a compassionate listener and loves to integrate the Enneagram into her spiritual direction practice.