Hi, I’m Jeanine...
I have been a helper, healer, and counselor (in some form) for as long as I can remember.
My passion is deepening my own path of wholeness — integrating body, mind, heart, spirit, soul, relationships, community, ecosystems, and world — in order to support others to do the same. I see myself in service to Spirit, Mother Earth, and all sentient life.
I have been a student of psychology, humanity, Nature, meditation, yoga, and Earth-based practices for the past 20 years. I teach meditation and yoga, and I have practiced as a psychotherapist since 2008. In the past several years, I have also been studying shamanism, deep ecology, social justice, and the divine feminine.
My own path of healing has included many “Dark Nights of the Soul”, which have opened my heart and understanding to others. I have come to value love, freedom, spirituality, nature, creativity, intuition, our sacred bodies, interdependence, self-responsibility, humility, humor, and pathways for harmonious living.
Outside of my work, I love hiking, communing with Nature, yoga, animals, poetry, and leanring. I live in Crestone, CO with my dog, cat, fish, greenhouse and the land.
Perhaps my deepest inspiration at this time is Mother Earth herself, an incredible, resilient, sacred, and mysterious living being to whom we belong and owe our stewardship. I dedicate all of my work to Her, with deep gratitude and hope for healing!
A NOTE ON MY PRIVILEGE:
I am a white, cis-gendered, middle class, college-educated, able-bodied U.S. Citizen. I live as a settler on land once occupied by Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), Diné Bikéyah (Dine'/Navajo), and Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) Peoples. My racial appearance has provided my family and me social, educational, economic, security, and legal advantages. I identify with the female body into which I was born, which protects me from the discrimination, threats, and disadvantages that gender-queer people live with. My grandparents on both sides of my family were college educated and paved a similar path for me educationally and financially. I do not have to live with serious, visible, physical limitations or related discrimination. I do not have to fear deportation or related violence or profiling. All of these privileges have compiled generationally in my family, and in my personal life-time to make my life easier, grant me access to many resources, support my comfort, and insulate me from many hardships that less privileged and more marginalized people face.
I am still learning about the impact of my privilege and colonization and ways to make ammends, reparations, and uplift the voices and lives of those with greater barriers in life than I have.
I also acknowledge the power dynamic in my role as a counselor/teacher and my responsibility to listen, grow, be accountable and ethical, and act as an ally to my clients to my best ability. I do not pretend to be perfect on this adventure, and I welcome feedback and opportunities to learn.
My Approach
Holistic, integrative, personalized…
trust
I trust you. Deeply. I trust your soul, your heart, and your life path. I even trust your pain. I am not here to fix or change you. You are in a process of transformation guided by something deep and mysterious—whatever name you may have for it. I am a guide — a little like a sherpa in the Himalayas — here to help you navigate challenging terrain for which I have experience, training, and tools. But my trust is that you were made for the journey.
the spiral
Healing is cyclical, not linear. So is growth. Together, we will circumambulate the mountain of your journey as you climb. I will support you in connecting with body, mind, heart, spirit, and soul. I will encourage practices and skills to help you harmonize your inner and outer worlds. And we will honor your natural cycles.
What People Are Saying
“In the summer of 2014, I reached out to Jeanine after finding her profile on Psychology Today. My son was only a few months old and my husband (boyfriend at the time) and I were really struggling to communicate. I also believe I was suffering from postpartum depression.
After seeing that I was open to it, Jeanine took more of a holistic approach with me which I found to both relieving and freeing. She helped me begin my journey of allowing myself to be who I really am without judgment or guilt. Combined with Jeanine’s many other offerings and support, this past year has been transformative for me.
I was stuck in dead end jobs working for managers and companies who did not appreciate me or see my value. I believe at this point in my life, neither did I. Through my work with Jeanine over the years, I now find myself at a company I love working for and have grown in my field. Within the past 2 years, I have received 2 promotions and can honestly say I do not dread going to work. I have capacity to take on more responsibilities and can confidently speak up for myself if I need to.
Overall, in working with Jeanine for the past 6 years I have been able to accomplish the following: sobriety, weight loss, career growth, spiritual awareness and growth, love, and acceptance for myself which translates to those around me. The greatest skill I have developed while working with Jeanine is being able to compartmentalize. To be with my emotions and recognize them but not allow them to consume me. I can recognize that the emotions passing through me are simply doing just that, passing through. I am now able to not self-identify with the emotions and depression that once consumed and devoured me whole.
— Anonymous female professional sales & marketing manager, age 31
“I am so grateful that our paths have crossed. [Jeanine,] you have taught me so much and have branded my heart with love. What I will most remember from our time together is the love that easily radiated from you in everything you did. I can remember back on those first meditation sessions....... You taught me to consider mindfulness as a gift of self love.”
— Anonymous female Meditation student & healthcare professional
"I first found Jeanine when I was caught in a miserable cycle of self-hatred and sabotage. I had struggled for years finding compassion and true growth for myself across all areas of my life—as a mother, a friend, and a spouse, and creatively and physically...Everything I hoped to accomplish and envisioned for my life seemed impossible.
In our work together, Jeanine was quickly able to root out underlying traumas and the negative coping mechanisms I had developed. We discussed and identified how the self-hatred had once felt necessary to survival and why it wasn’t serving me anymore. Working with imagery and association, she helped me understand and then heal from years-old abandonment, rejection, manipulation, and misuse—things I had thought all along I had or should have moved on from, or had denied altogether.
It was hard work, emotionally, bringing these experiences back to the surface, but Jeanine ensured I felt safe to do so, and with her intuitive guidance through healing, I feel free. Free from all the ways I spent my life torturing myself, free from fear and distrust that held me back, free from the tormentors of my past. I can finally identify when old negative patterns and thoughts arise without investing in them as truth, and I now find loving responses to the stressors at hand. Now I can grow through struggles and failures without giving up, and my life has transformed. I began to eat well and actually enjoy exercise, both as acts of love for myself instead of trying to change something I hate, and I lost twenty pounds. I drastically improved my marriage, having learned to identify and communicate my needs rather than to dismiss them or deflect blame. I overcame birth traumas and successfully manifested a beautiful, healthy, and all-natural birth for my second child. I stopped panicking and blaming myself so harshly at every hiccup in my children’s infancy and toddlerhood, and I’m a much more compassionate parent for it. And, most importantly, I returned to my creative heart, my truest self.
I am amazed at just how much is possible now. With deep exploration and Jeanine’s guidance, the same could be true for so many who are suffering."