I am a transpersonal and somatic psychotherapist, educator, a hospice worker, healer, author of The Effects of Compassionate Presence on the Dying, and founder of the School of Unusual Life Learning (SoULL).

Since leaving an engineering career 22 years ago, I have worked in many venues to help people fearlessly embrace a life which includes aging, dying and nature. This has involved years at bedsides with the elderly and children, in study and research, in contributing pioneering ideas to somatic psychology, in death and grief work, teaching, and years helping create and facilitate the Art of Dying projects in New York City.  

I believe my insights on energy and the body through aging, illness, and dying are unique because they have been derived from this wide lens of human experience and a deep understanding of our mortal journey.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Founder, Director, and Teacher of the School of Unusual Life Learning

• Facilitator, Teacher and Consultant at the Art of Dying Institute at the New York Open Center

• Adjunct Professor at Ramapo College of New Jersey

• Graduate School Faculty Mentor at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology (now Sophia University)

• Teacher in various Core Energetics master classes including the Netherlands Institute for Core Energetics, Core Esencia, and the Nyack Living Core Program

• A multitude of community talks, workshops and programs in the New York City area and across the U.S.

EDUCATION

• The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology (Masters of Transpersonal Psychology) now Sophia University

• The Cooper Union for Science and Art (BS in Engineering)

• The University of Iowa

• The Institute of Core Energetics East (Certified Core Energetics Practitioner)

• The Barbara Brennan School of Healing

• The Lung Ta Institute

• The Foundation for Human Enrichment (Somatic Experiencing) 

• Jeanne has received numerous other healing trainings including Reiki, Bio-Dynamic Cranial Sacral work, and more.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

• Spiritual Care Coordinator for United Hospice of Rockland

• 15 years as structural engineer:  Moveable bridge design, bridge and building design

• Long time hospice worker, birth and death doula

• Mother to four children

• Writer of essays and poetry