Kathie Slusser Carlson
Kathie Slusser Carlson is an associate with Paraclete Mission Group, coming alongside missionaries and ministry leaders around the world to bring emotional, relational, and spiritual health, as well as bringing expertise in developing transformational discipleship and leadership training. Kathie serves multiple mission organizations as a speaker, presenter, and trainer of trainers, and provides personal counseling to Christian leaders and missionaries. She has over 30 years of work and ministry experience, including roles as a teacher, education specialist, curriculum developer, team manager, member care provider, and sabbatical coach. She has worked with a wide range of agencies, including Mission Aviation Fellowship, InnerLife Ministries, Accessible Hope International, Launch Ministries, and International School Project, as well as multiple churches. Her experience includes teaching secondary English and journalism, and work as Director of Communications for an international corporation.
Kathie holds a BA in English and an MEd in Educational Technology. She has partnered with national and international ministries, working with multi-cultural teams in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East as an instructional designer and learning strategies facilitator supporting church leaders in physically, ideologically, and emotionally isolated contexts.
Her passion is to see God’s people thrive in the callings God places on their hearts and lives, helping make space for Christ to continually pour the Gospel into the deepest parts of their souls, even as they offer the Gospel to others. She and her husband Brad live happily in Boise, Idaho.
Services
- Adult Education
- Coaching, Leadership
- Coaching, Sabbaticals
- Conflict Resolution
- Counseling, Biblical
- Counseling, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
- Curriculum Development
- Debriefing Missionaries
- Debriefing, Trauma and transition
- Discipleship
- Editing
- Instructional Design
- Member Care
- Mentoring
- Multi-cultural Teams
- Personal, spiritual and emotional health
- Retreats
- Soul Care
- Team Building
- Untying the Knots of the Heart
- Women's Conferences