Janet Curry, MA, MSt, LPC, offers counseling and Mindfulness-Based Programs from Durango, Colorado, training students across North America and abroad.

Janet is an experienced Licensed Professional Counselor, and is certified as an MBSR teacher and teacher trainer by the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness (CFM) and the Mindfulness Center at Brown University (MC@B). An ardent mindfulness practitioner and student, in 2018 Janet completed a second Master’s degree program in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She has taught over 50 Mindfulness-Based courses (MBSR & MBCT) to students ranging in age from 21 to 87.

Trauma treatment is an area of personal passion and expertise. Janet is fully trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), and has twice completed the Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies with the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute led by world-renowned trauma expert Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, MD.  She has also completed the 1st year of training in Somatic Experiencing, a body-oriented treatment approach for resolving trauma.  She shares her expertise in Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness through presentations and workshops.

Janet began her first-person investigation of meditation at age 16 when she enrolled in a course in Transcendental Meditation in her hometown of Kansas City. Ten years later, she fell in love with yoga, as well as the Japanese martial art of Aikido and sword training. Soon after reading Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book on MBSR, “Full Catastrophe Living” in 2002, she began the practice of mindfulness meditation. Her work today emerges directly from over four decades of personal practice, study, and investigation, as well as all she has learned from her most cherished and impactful teachers: her students, clients, and family.