Our Team
Meet Our Consultants
Eremos Consulting Group is devoted to coaching and consulting with clergy, congregations, judicatories, nonprofits, and their leadership. Rev. Thompson provides lead consultation and brings in other experienced consultants and collaborators to fill out the team servicing your needs.
Elizabeth Denham Thompson
M.Div., LFMT, AAPC Fellow
Founder and Lead Consultant
Elizabeth is the owner of Eremos Consulting Group, a company devoted to consulting with and coaching clergy, congregations, individuals, professional care givers and non-profit organizations. Elizabeth selected the name Eremos, Greek for "wilderness desert", due to the powerful symbol of the wilderness as a place of spiritual journey, nourishment and transformation. An ordained minister and licensed family therapist, much of her work involves coaching and spiritual direction for individuals and groups who feel directionless and alone in a spiritual or professional desert.
Prior to founding Eremos, she served as the Executive Director for a non-profit counseling center with multiple satellite locations through the Denver/Boulder metro area. She is all too familiar with the stresses and expectations placed upon clergy and directors of non-profit organizations including hiring and organizing staff, recruiting key lay leaders and board members, plus fund raising and special events. She is a congregational consultant and coach, a pastoral counselor, a licensed marriage and family therapist, a spiritual director, a non-profit consultant, and a facilitator for board retreats, leadership development, and other kinds of workshops and trainings.
For over twenty years Rev. Thompson has led multiple "clergy wellness groups" across the Front Range of Colorado. In these groups from four to eight clergy gather regularly to provide emotional, spiritual and professional support to one another in a confidential, collaborative, and consistent setting. She has facilitated Leadership Consultation Groups made up of executive directors from counseling centers across the country, and has facilitated an ACPE Community of Practice group of fellow congregational consultants and practitioners.
Elizabeth has a B.S. in Education from Baylor University and an M.Div. from Beeson Divinity School at Samford University. She completed doctoral classes in pastoral counseling from Columbia Presbyterian Seminary, and extensive years of training in chaplaincy, pastoral counseling, and congregational consulting. Prior to seminary she was a full time fund raiser for a large non-profit organization in San Antonio, Texas. Elizabeth and her husband live in Littleton.
Phillip Thompson
MS, MA
Consultant
Phil Thompson has been a leader in the health care profession for over twenty five years. He brings his expertise in nonprofit and safety net healthcare to his work with Eremos Consulting Group to expand the services offered to nonprofits and the healthcare industry. Hands-on experience includes personnel administration, budgeting, financial analysis, strategic planning, information systems, legal compliance, federal grant administration, and accreditation readiness.
Retiring in 2024 as the Executive Director of the National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA), Phil resourced their efforts to provide technical assistance, leadership training and advocacy for over 1700 member oral health safety clinics across the country who are providing oral health to underserved populations. Previously employed by the University of Colorado - Denver as the chief financial officer of their safety net clinic in Sheridan, Colorado, Phil has also served in management leadership at University of Colorado Hospital where he managed multiple outpatient specialty clinics and at Children's Hospital Colorado where he was business manager for the Department of Psychiatry.
Prior to moving to Colorado in 2000 Phil was the operations vice president for a state wide home health management company and earlier a department head in the largest hospital system in Alabama. He was active in two state-wide professional associations advocating for the low income populations served by home health agencies.
Phil has over 40 years of service in congregational lay leadership, serving in multiple leadership roles over the years. He also served for ten years as a volunteer board member and president for Senior Homes of Colorado, a provider of independent housing for low income elderly. Phil has graduate degrees in history from Baylor University (Waco, Texas) and in health care administration from Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas).
Rev. Jackie Hibbard
M.Div.
Eremos Collaborator
Jackie Hibbard is an Ordained Minister in the United Church of Christ and holds an undergraduate degree in education and a Master of Divinity Degree from Iliff School of Theology. She has had careers in Volunteer Management, Education (community, college and graduate level), Chaplaincy and Hospice Leadership.
Jackie is a certified coach and spiritual director partnering with horses to provide direction and insight. She offers individual equine coaching and spiritual direction sessions and workshops through her business Dancing Spirit. She also offers a variety of group sessions and retreats featuring her horses as partners in the learning process. In addition, Jackie is the Associate Pastor at Community UCC in Boulder.
She lives on a small farm with spectacular views in the foothills of Lyons with her wife, dogs, chickens, cat, and four beautiful horses.
What Our Clients Say
Thank you for your mentoring this past couple of years. It's been a wild ride indeed, but you've helped me make some sense out of the hills and plummets. Thank you for offering a bigger perspective to me. May God guide and bless you and your ministry.
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