About UsFaculty
John Jeffery, M.Div., BCCC, Clinical Supervisor Director, Pacific Institute for Essential Conversations
For over 35 years, John Jeffery has been an Interfaith spiritual caregiver. He has worked in hospitals, trauma centers, hospices and palliative clinics and has accompanied hundreds of individuals and families through their dying journey and has served at the bedside of countless individuals in the midst of their trauma, uncertainty and despair. John began his journey as a Methodist minister and has served as a professional clinical chaplain, pastoral counselor, spiritual director and end of life care practitioner. He is a graduate of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and is a Board Certified Clinical Chaplain & Pastoral Counselor. John is a former Director of Spiritual Care Services for Kaiser Permanente where he established the first accredited Clinical Pastoral Education programs in Kaiser Permanente.
For the past ten years John has been a clinical supervisor of chaplains, spiritual directors and pastor counselors and often provides training in end of life care for physicians, nurses, therapists and hospice staff. He is a graduate of the Metta Institute for End of Life Care, A Fellow with the Association for Death Education and Counseling and a Fellow in Palliative and Hospice Care. John has been a student of Zen for the past 25 years. John offers pastoral counseling and spiritual direction to individuals both locally and nationwide.
John is a fully credentialed CPE Supervisor with the Center for Spiritual Care and Pastoral Formation (CSCPF).
John can be reached at: 925.699.2444 or johnj.PIEC@gmail.com
Roy Sanders, M.Div., BCCC, Clinical Supervisor
Roy Sanders is former manager of the University of Kansas Hospital CPE Center and CPE supervisor; he established the first accredited Clinical Pastoral Education program and center at KUMC. Roy is an ordained minister, Board Certified Clinical Chaplain, and Certified CPE Supervisor. Roy is also a Clinical Fellow in Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplaincy. Prior to establishing the CPE Center at KUMC Roy was the Director of Spiritual Care and CPE at a Safety Net Hospital in the Kansas City Missouri Metropolitan and Parish Pastor.
Roy is a graduate of the University of New Mexico where he earned a BA in Interpersonal Communication and Personality Psychology. He earned his Masters of Divinity with a specialty in Pastoral Psychotherapy at Midwestern Theological Seminary in Kansas City Missouri. While he completed his Clinical Pastoral Education exclusively through ACPE Roy first certificate as a supervisor through the College of Pastoral Supervision and Pastoral Psychotherapy. He maintains dual certification with CSPS and CSCPF.
