Board of Directors

CFP™, CFT™

Sarah Carr serves as the Board Chair for the Reclamation Collective. As a financial therapist and planner, she brings a unique perspective to her leadership. Sarah’s leadership is driven by a deep belief in empowering individuals to reclaim their autonomy and bring their resources into alignment with their values. Her commitment to creating safe and inclusive spaces for healing extends not just to the virtual community but to her two children, extended family, and various communities.

CCC, NCPS

Bethany Zelent is a Canadian counselling therapist, educator and supervisor specializing in trauma, with a particular focus on intergenerational trauma and its impact on family and spiritual dynamics. Drawing on her personal and professional experience navigating ministerial family life and high-control religious environments, she supports individuals in reclaiming a sense of belonging, autonomy, and spiritual connection outside traditional religious structures.

In her clinical work, Bethany integrates existential, somatic, and narrative approaches to help clients process complex histories, heal from systemic and familial pressures, and cultivate practices that honor their authentic selves. As Programs Chair for the Reclamation Collective, she brings her expertise and passion to designing programs that foster reflection, community, and growth for those exploring liberation, spiritual agency, and personal transformation.

Clinical Social Worker, Therapist, & Community Wellness Advocate

Max (all pronouns) was raised in a fundamentalist Chinese American church and fell in love with religious trauma support work while surviving the loss of her own faith. Today, she's a licensed social worker and advocate for her communities, including survivors of spiritual abuse. As a proud queer, neurodivergent, and biracial Chinese American therapist, she specializes in holistic wellness and trauma recovery for people with intersecting identities in Philadelphia.

Jo Luehmann (she/they) is a Colombian writer, speaker, and strategist whose work sits at the intersection of theology, neuroscience, and liberation. A former evangelical pastor, Jo now teaches about the ways religion and power shape our bodies, our thinking, and our lives—and how we can build lives rooted in integrity rather than indoctrination.

As the founder of Altus Strategies, Jo helps people and organizations unlearn oppressive systems, clarify their values, and create cultures where dignity, accountability, and psychological safety can coexist. Her work has guided thousands in leaving harmful environments and reshaping their understanding of power, belonging, and liberation. Jo’s writing and commentary reach global audiences across social media, and she is currently working on her forthcoming book, Predatory God, with St. Martin’s Press.

As co-founder of The Living Room, Jo works to reclaim education, spirituality, and theology for liberation and wholeness. Her forthcoming book, Predatory God: How Toxic Theology Grooms Us to Tolerate Abuse (St. Martin’s Press, 2025), delves into systemic harm and pathways to healing.

Currently serving as Senior Director of Development and Alumni Relations at Union Theological Seminary, Jo is passionate about advancing anti-racist and anti-bias practices in organizational strategy. She lives with her four children between New Jersey and New York City.

Jenai Auman is a Filipina American writer, artist, and author of Othered. She is also a survivor of spiritual abuse, healing from both religious and racial trauma. While her spiritual orientation is rooted in the contemplative Christian tradition, she is an advocate for religious pluralism, believing all people should have and experience the freedom to practice their faith tradition (or lack thereof) without judgment so long as one neither does no harm nor infringes on the agency of others. She draws from both her experience and education to speak to contemplative activism and holistic spiritual formation. She received her bachelor’s degree in behavioral health science and will graduate in May 2026 with her master’s in spiritual formation. She lives with her family in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, situated on the traditional lands of the Coahuiltecan people.

Tania Diaz (she/her) is a Mexican migrant and detribalized Zapoteca who has been living in Boston for the past 12 years.  Spanish is her first language and Tania embodied pastoral care for more than 20 years working predominantly with Spanish-speaking communities. Everything changed for her when she was able to name and denounce cycles of abuse in the denomination she worked, at which time Tania became an advocate and began whistle-blowing leadership by calling out the the indifference and violence with which victims reporting abuse were treated. 

Reclamation Collective has been key for her own healing journey and Tania feels ready to contribute to this vital work to ensure that spanish-speaking communities will also be benefited by the tools, support and professionalism the RC offers. Tania currently is the producer of the podcast “Voces; espacio sagrado para sobrevivientes de abuso religioso.”