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Paul Kuzma found EHD the way a lot of pastors do — at the end of his rope. It was 2003, he was in Southern California, recovering from burnout and depression, and frustrated enough with something at church to go searching for answers online. What he typed into a search engine, before Google was a verb, was a phrase he wasn’t sure existed: “emotionally healthy churches.” A book came up. He read it in one sitting, handed it to his wife Colleen, and told her: this guy is writing about everything we’ve been learning in therapy for the past two years.

That was the beginning of a journey that has shaped everything since: his life, his marriage, his family, and his ministry. Paul now leads EHD’s team of Course Coaches and serves as one himself. He works full-time as a Board Certified Pastoral Counselor and Director of the Center for Spiritual Renewal, a retreat center for Foursquare pastors and their families in Christiansburg, Virginia.

Steven Creange served as Senior Pastor of High Mountain Church of the Nazarene in New Jersey for more than 27 years before retiring from pastoral ministry in 2024. He now leads Beacon Training and Life Coaching, working with individuals, couples, pastors, and ministry leaders.

His EHD story started more than 20 years ago when he picked up Emotionally Healthy Spirituality expecting sermon material. He found something else entirely: the person who most needed the message was him. That realization cost him the image of having it all together as a pastor. It opened up greater authenticity, healthier relationships, and a church that began to change from the inside out. He and his wife, Susan, took the journey together, and EHD became the language that shaped their marriage, their leadership, and their community.

Steven has been part of the EHD Course Coaching ministry since 2015 and has coached hundreds of leaders across North America through both the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and Emotionally Healthy Relationships courses.

Steve Van Fossen has spent more than 30 years in pastoral ministry, and he’ll tell you the most important work he’s done has been on himself. He serves as Lead Pastor, National Course Coach, and EH School of Leadership Table Leader Coordinator with Emotionally Healthy Discipleship.

He first encountered EHD while pursuing his Doctor of Ministry, expecting to find a useful ministry resource. What he found instead was a mirror. God used it to reshape his identity from doing for Jesus to being with Jesus, a shift that cost him a version of himself he hadn’t realized he was protecting, and that changed his marriage, his leadership, and his walk with Christ.

Pastors he coaches often say EHD gave them permission to slow down and lead from a healthier place. That’s exactly what Steve is for. He works with leaders who are ready to stop performing and start forming. He and his wife, Marcey, are still on that journey themselves.

Laura Caicedo Vargas has served in pastoral ministry for more than 30 years, leading churches in Colombia alongside her husband, Juan Carlos, and working across ministries for women, couples, children, and youth. She now serves as an EHD Coach for Spanish-speaking churches across the U.S., Central America, and Canada.

Her path to EHD wasn’t easy. A significant professional disappointment hit harder than she expected. What surfaced wasn’t just the loss itself; it was a false picture of success she hadn’t known she was carrying, shaped by her family of origin and a spirituality built more on activism than abiding. The Grief and Loss chart, the Genogram, and the work of facing her own shadow helped her see what she’d been running on. That season changed her.

She holds a Master’s in Family Counseling from Universidad de La Sabana and brings deep experience in both pastoral leadership and organizational management. She coaches in Spanish and works with leaders who are ready to do the slow, honest work of formation.

John Hamilton has spent decades as a missionary pastor in Montevideo, Uruguay, working in the Spanish-speaking world where the pressure to produce and perform in ministry runs as deep as anywhere else. He and his wife, Lisa, first encountered EHD in 2014 at a conference in New York. What caught them wasn’t the framework, it was two specific things: a vision of Sabbath they hadn’t seen modeled in ministry, and the idea that the health of their marriage was inseparable from the health of their work.

That wasn’t a small realization. It changed how they led, how they rested, and how they related to each other and to the people they served. John now coaches and equips pastors and ministry leaders, particularly across the Spanish-speaking world, to do the same, to let EHD move from a concept they’ve heard about into a culture they actually live in.