Episode 05 of Coffee with Spiritual Directors features a conversation with Bridget Black, a spiritual director in Southern California who describes her practice as therapeutic spiritual direction. Drawing from years of ministry, seminary study, and work in the psychological and therapeutic world, Bridget weaves together soul care, trauma-informed presence, and spiritual discernment to create a spacious room where the personal and the spiritual meet.Dan and Bridget talk about prophetic listening, why questions and doubts belong in prayer, how practices like the Examen can ground us, and where spiritual direction fits in the future of the church. If you are longing for a companion who can hold both your story and your nervous system, this episode offers a hopeful and healing vision of what spiritual direction can be.