What to Expect

Most ministry environments move quickly. Interval does not.

Leaders understand that fruitfulness requires effort. Over time, this often leads to patterns of much working and little slowing. Interval creates space for rest that orders work.

A session at Interval is a 55-minute conversation with no formal intake and no fixed agenda. The time is intentionally unhurried. You are invited to be honest with yourself and before God.

The Work

Interval is not rest in the sense of disengagement or escape. It is a different kind of labor. One that trades urgency for attentiveness and reaction for discernment.

Stillness is not empty. It requires effort to interrupt familiar patterns and attend to what may be uncomfortable. When we slow down, what striving obscures often becomes visible. Limits, fears, responsibilities, and the nearness of God come into clearer view.

Some burdens are imposed by circumstances beyond our control. Others persist because of habits or coping patterns formed under pressure. Interval creates space to notice the difference.

Slowing does not remove responsibility. It clarifies it.

Interval is marked by trust and honesty. The posture is not judgment, but neither is it avoidance. With gentleness and respect, attention is given to patterns or blind spots that may contribute to ongoing struggles. Care and clarity are held together in service of truth before God and faithfulness over comfort.

Awareness & Agency

Awareness is the clarity that emerges through disciplined attention. It is the ability to see honestly what one is carrying: pressures, limits, fears, responsibilities, habits, and desires that urgency and endurance often conceal.

Agency is the capacity to take responsibility before God for what is ours to carry. It is the ability to act with intention rather than compulsion, and to choose faithfulness rather than reaction or avoidance.

Interval exists to support leaders not only in naming what they carry, but in responding faithfully to it.

The Conversation

You can expect careful listening, honest reflection, thoughtful questions, and space to name what is heavy.

You should not expect quick fixes, strategic plans, performance expectations, or clinical diagnosis.

Session Structure

Interval is a guided process, not a prescribed one. A framework is provided to help hold the pace and attention of each session, while responsibility for what is explored remains with you.

Each session is guided by a set of questions designed to create space for careful attention and discernment, including:

Where do you need to slow down?
Where is personal drive creating unhealthy pressure?
Where are external demands creating unhealthy pressure?
What are you carrying that is not yours to carry?
Where do you need to take responsibility for your struggles?
What practices or structures would foster growth?
What practices or structures would foster rest?

These questions serve not as an agenda, but as a starting point, creating room to explore whatever feels most pressing or significant in the moment. At times, sessions may include further exploration of personal history, family-of-origin dynamics, attachment patterns, or broad personality tendencies. Such exploration is offered to increase understanding, not as an assessment or diagnosis, and is always guided by discernment and consent.

Session Details

Sessions are 55 minutes.
Meetings are held In-person or Online.
Conversations are confidential within appropriate legal and ethical limits.
If at any point, clinical or crisis care would be more appropriate, that will be addressed directly.

Fees & Accessibility

The fee is $125 per session.
Payment is arranged privately after scheduling and prior to the session, and does not involve insurance.
For those who find it helpful, sessions may be scheduled in blocks; four sessions for $450 or ten sessions for $1000.
If cost is a concern, please say so. Interval is meant to serve, not burden. Reduced or scholarship-supported sessions may be available for church planters or pastors with limited financial margin.

A Simple Invitation

If this kind of space Interval provides may be helpful, you are welcome to schedule a session whenever you are ready.

Schedule a Session

Scholarship Support

Interval is offered to pastors and ministry leaders who carry significant responsibility, often within limited margin. Some are able to cover the cost of sessions; others are not.

From time to time, churches and leaders choose to help make Interval accessible by contributing toward scholarship support. These gifts are used quietly and directly to offset the cost of sessions for planters and pastors who would otherwise be unable to participate.

If you or your church would like to help fund scholarship support, you’re welcome to reach out. This is not a public campaign, but a shared commitment to the care of those who serve.