Our Story is Rooted in Yours
You’re not alone in feeling weary or disconnected. We’ve walked through those valleys too — burnout, grief, and rebuilding trust — and discovered a way back to connection. That journey shapes everything we offer today.
Our Story
Every relationship reaches crossroads — moments when the distance feels too wide and repair seems impossible. We know that feeling firsthand.
There was a time when we could hardly imagine working together. At home, we were surviving more than connecting—two souls sharing space but rarely meeting. The tenderness that once drew us close had been replaced by careful choreography around each other’s wounds.
Then, after the profound loss of our stillborn son, we found ourselves face to face with the truth: we had become deeply disconnected. Grief stripped away our defenses, and we could no longer avoid the shadow work before us. Healing required courage—courage to name how we had been unconsciously wounding each other and to face the unhealed patterns carried from our own stories.
That descent into our brokenness became the soil where intimacy took root again. As we began the sacred work of reconnection—approaching what was fractured with tenderness—something new and beautiful emerged.
When we started facilitating relationship retreats for Dennis’s Townsend Leadership Program groups, someone once said, “You two are a superpower team.” That phrase reshaped how we saw ourselves.
We discovered we are beautifully atypical—flowing against conventional gender expectations. Kimber is the strategic thinker, an INTJ who moves with psychological precision and depth. Dennis is the empathic feeler, an ENFP who opens space for hearts to heal. Where many expect head and heart to live in separate worlds, we’ve found a complementary wholeness that bridges them.
"Humbled, kind, compassionate, honest, grace filled. It’s such a joy to watch you [both] and be a part of what you do so eloquently. You both felt authentic, peaceful, genuine. So sweet."
- Nancy Houston, Executive Coach
What began as our personal repair journey became a calling to walk with others through theirs. Today, every retreat and conversation we lead is rooted in that lived experience — that love and connection can be rebuilt, even after deep pain.
What We Believe About Change
We believe growth happens in relationship — with God, ourselves, and one another. Every offering we create, from retreats to leadership intensives, begins with that truth.
Our vision is simple: to cultivate spaces where love grows stronger than fear, where leaders rediscover rest, and where connection is restored in the places it’s been lost.
From Disconnection to Deep Connection
Real change is possible—because we’ve lived it.
We know what it’s like when communication feels foreign and connection seems impossible. Our marriage has known distance and repair. sought the help of trusted friends and skilled therapists, and found restoration we once thought was out of reach.
That journey—from brokenness to intimacy—informs every retreat we lead, every conversation we hold, and every space we create for couples like you who long for wholeness. We stand not as perfect examples, but as living proof that with courage, vulnerability, and support, relationships can heal and grow stronger than before.
If you’re longing for that kind of renewal, you don’t have to walk it alone.
Our Superpower: Connection Through Difference
(A Name We Didn’t Choose—But Embrace)
Dennis Del Valle
Executive Coach | Group Facilitator | Counselor
Dennis Del Valle holds a B.A. in Biblical Studies from Biola University (1992), an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific University (1997), and an Educational Specialist credential from California State University, Long Beach (2002).
He is a Fellow at the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling and serves as a Director for the Townsend Leadership Program. For over a decade, Dennis has been a facilitator and speaker at Cloud-Townsend conferences. His work spans leadership consulting, executive coaching, and small group discipleship development within churches and organizations.
With a private counseling practice in Long Beach, Dennis is passionate about helping individuals and teams grow through group process, experiential learning, and relational dynamics—especially within family businesses and complex systems. He speaks and facilitates groups across the country, training both licensed professionals and lay counselors.
Dennis spent 14 years in public education, serving first as a school counselor and later as a Special Education teacher supporting students with autism, learning differences, hearing loss, and behavioral challenges.
He’s most at home spending time with his wife Kimber and their two children. Married for 28 years, Dennis brings wisdom, warmth, and humor to every circle he leads.
Dr. Kimber
Retreat Guide | Author | Speaker
As a clinical psychologist specializing in grief and trauma, she understands what it means to feel silenced by life's hardest moments. Her memoir Still: Making a Whole When Parts Go Missing—which reached Amazon's top 100 in pregnancy and childbirth—emerged from her own journey through profound loss, offering others a roadmap from brokenness to hope.
Dr. Kimber works with people ready to move from reactive to responsive, from hidden to authentic, from surviving to thriving in their most important relationships. Through her depth psychology approach, she helps clients regulate their nervous systems and reclaim their authentic selves without having to relive every painful detail of their past.
Her retreats are known for their transformative blend of psychological insight and unexpected playfulness—her "growling" exercises have become legendary among participants who discover new ways to access their power. She facilitates growth in her Fierce Gentle community, teaching regulation skills that help people respond rather than react.
Through her podcast I Thought I Was Over This and her Nightly Reflections journal, she creates spaces for people to slow down and reconnect with what matters most. Her biweekly newsletter offers gentle invitations to pause in a world that demands constant motion.
A country girl who's spent three decades in Southern California, Dr. Kimber lives with her husband and two children. When she's not helping others find their voice, you'll find her hiking, watching sunsets, or creating the kind of spaces where people remember who they really are beneath all the noise.
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