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The People Behind the Work

Guides who have
walked this
road too.

This work was not built in a classroom or a clinical office. It was shaped by real seasons of pain, confusion, and rebuilding. The people on this team know what it feels like to sit in the middle of a story that feels impossible to finish well.

Meet the Team

Dave Ardell
VP of Partnerships

Dave Ardell

"Restoration is a community effort. My role is to make sure no family walks this road without the right support around them."

Dave brings deep relational network and a heart for connecting people in crisis to real, structured help. As VP of Partnerships, he leads our work with churches, denominations, treatment centers, and donor partners — building the ecosystem that makes The Resilient Pathway and The Pastor's Pathway accessible to families nationwide.

He believes restoration is a community effort, and his role is to make sure no family has to walk this road without the right support around them.

Jamie Powell
Betrayed Partner Advocate

Jamie Powell

"My job is to make sure people feel safe enough to tell the truth."

Jamie built this work because she needed it once and it didn't exist. After walking through her own season of betrayal, she found that most support systems were designed to help individuals survive. What she needed was something that helped her whole family find a path forward together.

What makes Jamie different is that she has sat in the chair on the other side of this conversation. She knows the disorientation of discovery. She knows what it costs a person to rebuild dignity after trust has been broken. She helps betrayed partners find their voice again without losing themselves in the process.

Families describe her as steady. Not distant, not clinical. Present in the way that people need when they are in the middle of something terrifying.

Grace Powell
Child & Family Companion

Grace Powell

"I grew up watching my family choose the harder, better path. That shaped everything."

Grace grew up inside a story of restoration. She watched her parents do the difficult, honest work of rebuilding their family, and she understands from the inside what that process actually looks like for the children in the room.

Grace is the person who makes sure families feel held from the first conversation. She brings a quality that is hard to name but immediately felt: she notices people. She pays attention. And she creates the kind of steadiness that families need when they are stepping into something vulnerable.

Her voice represents a generation that grew up watching recovery happen and came out believing that healing is real, that families can change, and that honesty is always worth it.

You won't work with us alone.

The Resilient Pathway is supported by a vetted network of specialists — each one selected for their expertise, their values, and their ability to meet families exactly where they are.

Certified Sex Addiction Therapist

CSAT Partners

Licensed clinicians specializing in betrayal trauma and compulsive sexual behavior. Available for clinical referral and coordinated care alongside coaching.

Licensed Therapists

Clinical Support

A trusted network of marriage and family therapists who share our values and work in coordination with the Resilient Pathway when clinical care is needed.

Family & Parenting Guides

Children & Family Support

Specialists in helping children navigate family crisis with age-appropriate care, stability, and language — so restoration includes the whole family system.

Intensive Retreat Guides

Retreat Facilitators

Experienced facilitators who lead our structured intensive experiences — creating space for breakthroughs that aren't possible inside weekly sessions alone.

Somatic & Body-Based Specialists

Embodied Healing

Practitioners trained in trauma-sensitive somatic work — helping partners process what words alone can't reach and rebuild a felt sense of safety in the body.

Pastoral & Faith Guides

Faith-Informed Support

Pastors and ministry leaders trained in crisis care who provide spiritual support for families navigating betrayal within a faith context — without shame or condemnation.

Names and bios coming soon. Our partner network is actively being finalized. Every specialist is personally vetted by Jamie and Drew before joining the care team.

Born from
lived
experience.

The Powell family
The family behind the work

Most families don't hit a crisis moment with a plan in place. They hit it confused, ashamed, and unsure who to call. Betrayal doesn't announce itself. Addiction rarely comes with clean answers. And relational disconnection can build for years before anyone knows how to name it.

When everything surfaces, the question most families face is simple and terrifying: Is there a way through this?

Resilient Family Co. was not created out of theory or clinical models. It was created because the people who built it have sat in that same place of not knowing. They have navigated the shock of discovery, the slow work of rebuilding trust, the conversations that felt impossible, and the quiet hope that something better was still possible.

That experience is not a credential to advertise. It's the reason this work exists. And it's the thing that makes the difference for families who need to feel understood, not just guided.

Restoration
requires
honesty.

Truth without spin
Ownership without shame
Compassion for both partners
Structure that holds the process
Long-term over quick recovery

Healing requires three things that are genuinely difficult to hold at the same time: truth, ownership, and compassion. When one of those is missing, the work stalls. Families come to us at different points in that tension.

Both partners are often carrying pain, even when it looks completely different. The betrayed partner is navigating shock, grief, and a broken sense of safety. The partner who caused harm is often carrying shame, fear, and patterns of disconnection they don't fully understand yet.

Our team does not believe in punishment as a path to healing. We don't believe shame produces lasting change. And we don't rush reconciliation before the conditions for real trust have been built.

The goal is a family that has done something genuinely hard together, and built something stronger because of it. That is possible. We have seen it. And it is what this work is designed to move families toward.

One team.
Every strength
at the table.

This is not a practice built around one person. Jamie, Drew, and Grace operate as a real team, not a hierarchy with supporting roles underneath it. Each person brings something distinct, and families receive all of it.

Jamie holds the relational and emotional core of the work. Drew holds the vision, the frameworks, and the forward momentum. Grace holds the care, the communication, and the steadiness that makes every family feel genuinely supported. Together they cover the ground that no single guide can cover alone.

Families inside The Resilient Pathway are not handed off or passed around. They are held by a team that talks to each other, coordinates around their specific situation, and brings relational, emotional, and strategic support at every stage of the process.

Relational depth Strategic clarity Emotional attunement Structural frameworks Genuine care Lived experience

If your family feels
broken right now,
you are not alone.

What you are carrying is heavy. The confusion, the grief, the questions that don't have clean answers. The fear that the damage is permanent. The exhaustion of trying to hold together something that keeps falling apart. None of that is lost on us.

Healing is not fast. It is not simple. And it does not happen by accident. But it is genuinely possible. Families rebuild trust. Couples find their way back to each other. Children regain stability. Homes that were shaped by secrecy and distance can become places of honesty and safety. We have watched this happen. It is why we do this work.

You do not have to have it figured out before you reach out. You just have to be willing to take one step toward something different.

Wherever you are in the story, there is a way forward.

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