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Jude’s training in clinical chaplaincy began during her residency at Kaiser Permanente in Vallejo, California in 2020. Her clinical residency was rooted in neuro-psychoanalytic psychotherapy and incorporated the work of Mark Solms and Jaak Panksep. She served as the palliative care chaplain while working at Kaiser. Currently, she works in Salt Lake City at Primary Children’s Hospital as part of their spiritual care team. She is also a volunteer and bereavement coordinator at Quality Home Health and Hospice.

Jude holds a Ph.D. in education and has worked as a tenured anthropology professor for a number of years before dedicating herself to end of life work and spiritual care. Her personal spiritual practice includes various aspects of shamanism, and she has worked with Peruvian and Celtic shamans during her studies of plant medicine.

With regard to psychedelic work, she is well versed in traditional induction in the form of shamanic journey work, which she has been doing for the past 20 years. She focuses specifically on integration not only for her clients, but for herself as well. She is working toward certification as a psychedelic assisted therapist at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

She has also been working as an End-of-Life Doula and training others in this sacred work for the past six years. Often, when she works in the area of death, dying, and grief, she combines formal death doula, and chaplaincy training with her shamanic practice. See more of her work in this area at: http://mydeathdoula.com

Her personal spiritual practice involves an interesting mix of many traditions (her O’Higgins family extending far back to the druid poets of Ireland and her powerful Mestizo family from New Mexico), and she often calls on her ancestral lineages for guidance.