Services

Our approach to mentoring is rooted in the Scriptures, informed by the Spiritual Root System and grounded in our life experiences and a deep understanding of the pressures, conflict, and moral issues faced by leaders in today’s fast-paced, bottom-line driven work environment.

Equipped with the experience, strength, and hope of their own journeys, the Tin Man Coaches offer you the benefit of a combined 60 years of experience and more than 40,000 hours of counseling, pastoral experience, and coaching in one-on-one and small group settings.

If you haven’t been to a therapeutic retreat, you haven’t experienced it, but once you have, you won’t be able to explain what happened. You will find a place where you will leave knowing you matter and you belong. This type of therapy experience is considered a “deep dive” into your story that gives you a picture of where ongoing counseling can continue to support your goals and health.

Limited to no more than six people, our 5-day and 4-day retreats create the equivalent of a year’s worth of counseling in a safe, welcoming environment. Guided by skilled therapists, these transformational experiences help you explore the story of your life, where progress can be compared to using a backhoe instead of a teaspoon. The retreat will help you better understand and heal wounded parts of your life that may be blocking you from true freedom and the life you long to live.

Next Men’s Therapeutic Retreat Date:

July 21 – 25, 2025 Nashville, TN

September 15 – 19, 2025 Greenville, SC

November 10 – 14, 2025 Nashville, TN

Next Women’s Therapeutic Retreat Date:

October 20 – 24, 2025 Fort Myers, FL

a recent testimonial from a women’s retreat participant

“Those four days will forever be marked as ones of immense honesty, vulnerability and personal growth. The level of intimacy reached in such a short period of time modeled to me the depth of relationship that I craved in everyday life. This experience helped me see the value in exploring the past to see how it shapes my present, the gift of sharing and receiving feedback, and that the longing for genuine, honest relationships is not just achievable but vital to healing. This experience continues to shape me and bear fruit of intimacy in my everyday life. I am forever grateful to Tin Man for seeing the need for this type of recovery work. If you have a desire to bravely pursue the scary undertaking of being more fully known in order for deep healing to begin, take the leap. Once you do, there’s no going back. But after experiencing this freedom, you wouldn’t have it any other way.”

Medical Professional
Nashville, TN

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.

An EMDR Intensive is a very different approach to providing EMDR treatment. Because of the “rewiring” and truly healing effect of EMDR, an Intensive can work in ways that are not possible with traditional therapy techniques. EMDR processing is designed to desensitize negative feelings and change the negative belief about self that has been encoded onto the memory in order to “rewire” the brain and truly heal the individual. More “maladaptive” and “misplaced” traumatic experiences can be processed and healed much more quickly in an intensive session than is possible in traditional weekly therapy.

Tin Man Groups are online groups based on region or affinity for the clients. They are 1.25 hour sessions of 6-8 people who learn to walk through their unique stories together, and the feelings associated with those stories. These groups meet weekly, and in our experience, are one of the best ways for a man or woman to connect their head to their heart. These groups are a great way to step into the process or go further in your recovery after meeting for a season one-on-one with one of our coaches. 

Once or twice a year, Tin Man offers a year-long cohort focused on training men and women who are interested in being equipped to coach others toward emotional heath. Many of those who take this course go on to serve in their local church or community. Some become Tin Man coaches. The cohort meets twice a month.

We recognize that physical health issues can limit your ability to fully be who God made you, use the gifts He gave you, and embrace your passion and calling. Our Functional Medicine Health Coaching services exist to optimize your health so you can live out of your heart at your highest capacity.

Would you take an ibuprofen for foot pain if you had a rock in your shoe? Of course not. You’d remove the rock! That’s why we’re all tired of the 11-minute visit with the doctor and another pill to mask a symptom.

Our coaches are trained to investigate and identify the root causes that are creating an environment for disease (stressors, toxins, allergens, microbes, and poor diet & movement). Together, you’ll address the cause(s) and the resulting imbalances that are perpetrating symptoms (think gut health, immune system function, energy regulation, detoxification, hormone balance, etc.). As you revamp your diet, lifestyle, and environment from the ground up, our coaches will help you navigate your journey back to health.

Simply put, Spiritual Direction is for those who are hungry for more of God.

Christian Spiritual Direction is the historical Christian practice whereby one person helps another to pay attention to the presence of God in them, around them, and for them. A Spiritual Director can help a leader discern God’s voice and sanctifying work in his or her life. In the same way the Emmaus road disciples had their eyes opened to see Jesus in a new light (Luke 24:28-35), Spiritual Direction provides space for the shared noticing of Jesus that leads to deepening joy and “burning” hearts.

Spiritual direction is God-oriented rather than goal-oriented–giving one’s attention to God rather than to a particular problem that needs to be fixed or behavior that needs to be modified. It is responsive rather than directive, listening together to the Holy Spirit’s presence and ways rather than the director telling the directee what to do. It is about listening with–together noticing senses of God’s voice and direction–rather than talking to. It occurs in an atmosphere of loving trust; trusting that God is for us (not against us), in love, and that God’s work over time is about transforming us into the image of Christ, through the loving shaping of His Holy Spirit, so that we might live life fully, and to the Father’s glory.

Spiritual direction meetings between a director and directee usually occur once a month, for an hour each time. These occur either in person or over Zoom.

Tin Man Ministries can work with your church or leadership on developing a program to make emotional health a priority among your leaders, staff, and congregation. Contact us for more information.

We have spoken and taught on six continents in over 30 countries for groups as small as five and as large as 5,000. Whether a conference or a small group, we’re available to come teach for you. View samples below:

True Discipleship Is Relational

Disciples of the Heart

Jeff’s Story