Promoting Mental Hygiene Since 2006
I am passionate about psychology and all things healing and transformation. My purpose is to provide compassionate guidance so that clients can sit in their highest wisdom. I am a “mindful mama” to two most curious and loving little ones. My husband and I love mountain life and spend family time in nature camping, hiking, paddleboarding, or in community. Slowing down and savoring is at the core of our values.
I have worked with a variety of populations in a number of settings since 2006 ranging from crisis work, chronic pain, cancer, and recovery. However, it was my experience at UCSD’s Center for Mindfulness in 2007, under the mentorship of director Steven Hickman, Psy.D., that I found my deep calling. This internship cultivated a passion for mindfulness that has guided my clinical work since.
My doctoral research focused on mindfulness and professionals-in-training illustrating the importance that therapists practice mindfulness themselves. I looked at burnout and became very interested in what instills lifeblood in our journey. That said, I am a mindfulness practitioner. Mindfulness is a personal passion that has translated into every essence of my being, including the root of my professional life. I have lectured at two national conferences on this topic and co-authored a published chapter on mindfulness and self-care in a peer reviewed journal along with other mindfulness articles. Just recently my excerpts were chosen in a book on Mindful Motherhood that highlight my expertise in mindful parenting and parenthood/reparenting. I enjoy facilitating workshops, talks, groups, and meditations. I am currently working on a book that focuses on mindful family living and run a private practice in Boulder while balancing family life.
Since 2008 I have worked in private practice as a psychotherapist employing mindfulness-based psychotherapy for individuals, couples and groups. I graduated in 2012 with a doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) with an emphasis in *Integrative Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. My lens is deeply rooted in wholism, interdependance, wellness and development. I am a registered psychotherapist in the state of Colorado and work in private practice. I am in the process of applying for an LPC in the state of Colorado. My wisdom, while grounded in education, is alive with experience.
In addition to my role as a clinician, I am a professor, author, and collaborator. I have also co-founded several psychological communities/organizations. I stay active as a member (since 2006) of the Center for Integrative Psychology. I am rooted in community, it is here I both nurture and am nurtured, thrive and come alive.
“Shift your perception and shift your reality. Healthy mental hygiene is at the core of well-being.”
Publications
“Peaceful Mama: The Mind, Body and Baby Connection: The Manifesto of Conscious Motherhood”.
Citrine Publishing, May 7, 2018
Contributed two “expert excerpts” in this book.
By Natalie Sagar, Lindsay Ambrose
"A Study of Mindfulness and Self-Care: A Path to Self-Compassion for Female Therapists in Training".
Woman & Therapy: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, February 24th, 2014, Vol 37 Issue 1-2; pages 155-163
By Marina Dorian and Jessica Evers Killebrew
DIO 10.1080/02703149.2014.850345
By Jessica L Evers Killebrew Psy.D. May 2012, 129 pages ProQuest
What is *Integrative Psychology?
As defined by Center for Integrative Psychology, 2014
Operating from a systems perspective, Integrative Psychology explores pluralistic and ecological frameworks, seeking personal and social wellness. It integrates the empirical paradigms of psychology with alternative traditions of healing, while also emphasizing an understanding of humankind's various cultures and the spiritual dimensions that underlie them.
Integral Psychology (Wilber 2000) is considered a meta-theory that is integrative in nature, an expression of this pluralistic systemic perspective and part of my doctoral training Integrative emphasis.