Janeen (she/they) is a queer therapist and artist making home beside a river on Tewa land in northern NM. She brings warmth, approachable presence, humor, and intentionality to her work. Their clients are diverse in age and identities, and often include LGBTQIA2+ people, artists, poets, therapists, people with disabilities and chronic illness, and activists.
She seeks to provide non-pathologizing care that recognizes the role of oppressive systems, helping people to feel seen inside those systems while developing tools to transform themselves, their communities, and the systems touching their lives. Based on the needs of the individual, Janeen incorporates dream work, depth psychology, aspects of attachment and gestalt theories, spiritual practices, psychodrama, nature therapy, and creative exploration.
Janeen came to therapeutic work via many twists and turns, feeling as a child that "helping" was the main skill she had to offer, living in a home where she was parentified at a young age. Religious influences heavily conditioned them to shape their life around the needs of others, thereby forfeiting their own exploration of self. After completing her MSW and working as a trauma clinician, Janeen realized they needed to step away from the field in order to do personal work around identity and codependency. During that time, they found queer identity, connection to their body, plants, earth-based spirituality, art, activism, decolonial work, and dreamwork.
Janeen returned to therapeutic work with a transformed, alive, embodied self. They now offer what they offer from a place of their own authentic ground-- not finding identity or self-worth in who/what they respond to but in their own innate belonging. Deeply understanding social and religious pressures to conform and repress, Janeen supports people with coming out, setting boundaries, grief and loss, listening to one’s body, summoning courage, finding voice and giving it expression.
Their choice to work outside of the healthcare system/not under licensure is deliberate. It's a divestment from what they experienced as an oppressive atmosphere of fear and surveillance, unrealistic and unsupportive treatment plans, dehumanizing diagnostics, and often re-traumatizing practices (ex. intake process). While they know the choice limits who they can work with (not accepting insurance), it also allows them to work with people in any state or country and most importantly- in their own integrity. They offer sliding scale while also knowing not everyone has spare cash for therapy. Janeen has webs of personal and professional accountability in how they practice, and they frequently seek counsel from mentors.
Janeen offers ongoing groups and gatherings in Santa Fe and in northern NM
Email janeen.singer@gmail.com for more information.
Teachers, Trainings, Inspirations
2021-2018 Graduate of 150 hours of facilitator trainings through the Institute for Archetypal and Cross-Cultural Studies with Dr. C.P. Estés Réyes
2021 Mirroring Facilitator Training with the School of Lost Borders, Big Pine, CA
2018 Theater of the Oppressed Facilitator Training with Mandala Center, Port Townsend, WA
2017 Herbal Mystery School with Liz Migliorelli, Mendocino, CA
2018 Social Permaculture Training with Starhawk, CA
2009 Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services, Master of Social Work, NY
2008 Graduate of People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, Nyack, NY