Jean received her Bachelor of Arts degree from
Ohio Dominican College in Columbus, Ohio, and was certified as a teacher by the State of Ohio. She later trained with
Joseph P. Reel, Ph.D. at the Hypnosis Career Institute in Albuquerque (1990), and opened her office two years later.
She has been in private practice since that time.
In 2001, Jean traveled to Arizona to train in HypnoBirthing®
with the program's founder, Marie F. Mongan, M.Ed., M.Hy. Jean has been teaching this program of calm, comfortable
birthing to numerous moms-to-be since that time.
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About Jean . . .
Jean sees her role as that of a teacher and a facilitator.
She guides her clients to develop their individual skills and abilities to achieve realistic and personally relevant goals.
Hypnotherapy, she believes, is an art. Ideally, it must come
from the heart, and it involves respecting the client's own needs and belief structure, and using that which the client
brings to the experience of hypnosis to help effect meaningful, lasting change.
Jean
has taught regularly, both privately and publicly, since opening her practice in 1992. Among the public conferences and workshops she has presented are:
•
Private, pro-bono “Relaxation Trainings” for People Living Through
Cancer, November, 1996 – Present
• “Don’t Worry – God’s Minding the Store” (Weekend
Retreat),
Spiritual Renewal Center, Albuquerque, NM, February 5-7, 1999
• “Imagery for Relaxation,” People Living Through Cancer State-wide
Survivorship
Conference, October 25, 1997
•
“There’s a Place for Us,” People Living Through Cancer State-wide
Survivorship Conference, November 18, 1998
• “What? Me Worry?” People
Living Through Cancer State-wide
Survivorship Conference, November 11, 2000
•
“Guided Imagery and Cancer: Putting Your Mind to Work for You,”
People Living Through Cancer State-wide Survivorship Conference,
June 26, 2004.
• "Self-Hypnosis for Change,"
UNM Continuing Education, Spring 2006
through the present.
Jean is certified by the
Southwest Hypnotherapists Examining Board (www.shebweb.com), of which she currently serves as President. She also holds a certification as a HypnoBirthing®
Childbirth Educator from the HypnoBirthing® Institute.
