I’m so glad you’re here.

Forest trail with large trees and fallen log

I’m guessing if you found your way to this site you’re looking for some help; maybe with your relationships, maybe with your body, maybe with grief. Those are my areas of expertise, and I’d love to help you find your way through the weeds. I’ve spent about 25 years in my own wanderings and I hope I can help you find some new tools, and a little bit of equanimity.

I work mostly through the lens of the body.

Shadow of a person standing barefoot on the sandy bottom of a shallow body of water, surrounded by floating autumn leaves.

I experience and process the world through sensation, and I had a hell of a time figuring out how to manage that in a culture that’s so cognitively focused. I spun in circles for years around all kinds of things, and learned lots of neat brain tricks, but the healing didn’t stick until I found somatic practices and real live secure attachments. If you’re in a similar boat and need some help, I have a compass.

Here are some of the tools I work with:

Betty Martin’s Wheel of Consent. It’s a framework for embodied consent that helps us learn to answer two of the most important questions in any interaction with other humans “Who’s doing what to whom?” and “Who is this for?”

Somatic Experiencing. This is a trauma resolution modality that relies on curiosity, resource building, sensation tracking, and attention to the nervous system by both the client and the practitioner.

Some things people think about my work and therapeutic presence:

  • M Judith Block PhD Licensed Clinical Psychologist

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    Janine is an original thinker. She breaks traditional boundaries to meld healing techniques informed by her lengthy history as a massage therapist, ongoing studies in Somatic Experiencing, curiosity, and formal study of the mind. She listens intently, cares deeply and integrates her expertise to match her clients needs. Janine is apt to help you if you have tried more traditional therapies without success. She brings and extra large toolkit to her practice to maximize the potential to help in a creative and caring manner.

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  • Tatianah Thunberg LMSW

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    Clear boundaries, focused attention, safe container, regulated pacing, empathic and playful, courageous healthy risks.

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  • CH

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    Nurturing! Holds a totally safe space to be heard on uncomfortable topics. Exudes gentle caring & understanding without any sort of “know-best” attitude.

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